[Groff] behaviour of \fP

[Werner LEMBERG]

Consider the following with the ascii device, using tmac.an:


This is
.B bold
text.
And this is \fCtypewriter\fP text.


As you can see, the last `text.' appears in bold face, which is of
course unwanted.

Question: Shall we change the behaviour of `remembering the previous
font'?  I can imagine the following:

  If a font is selected which doesn't exist for the current device,
  ignore it but update the `previous font' so that \fP gives a
  reasonable result.

What's the behaviour with the original troff?  Do you think that this
change would cause a lot of inconsistencies?


    Werner