Re: [Groff] groff for old macro packages

[Larry Jones]

Werner LEMBERG writes:
> 
> Instead of fixing this I would like to get rid of these wrappers
> completely -- is this really used today?  Wouldn't people rather
> expect that calling groff causes groff's incarnations of ms, mm, etc.
> macros be used by default?  Is there any advantage?

Yes, it's really used today.  Some of the macro package
reimplementations, particularly mm, leave a lot to be desired, so
convenient access to the original macro packages is needed.  (There's
also the case of existing documents that engage in unwaranted chumminess
with the macro package that don't work right with the
reimplementations.)

-Larry Jones

I told her to expect you to deny everything. -- Calvin