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Re: [Groff] An environment variable for enabling compatibility mode


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] An environment variable for enabling compatibility mode
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:38:49 +0100 (CET)

> There should be an environment variable that enables the
> compatiblity mode for all groff related programs; call it
> $GROFF_COMPAT, $GROFF_COMPATIBILTY, $GROFF_COMPAT_MODE, or the like.
> If this variable is set the option -C is passed to all groff
> programs that have this feature.
> 
> An important application is the formatting of the classical
> documentation using the original shell scripts.

It's not clear to me how this shall work.  IMHO, this is beyond the
scope of GNU troff.  For example, any -Tpost option for troff has to
be changed to -Tps, so it is not a great problem to add -C at the same
time.


    Werner

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