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

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Having to specify (potentially) dozens of options is not too
> attractive, but as far as I can see, anything else causes
> compatibility problems.  I believe we need very fine granularity
> (i.e. we need to be able to enable/disable a particular
> functionality).  If we just have a switch to enable the foobar set
> of options we run into the problem of someone needing some but not
> all of the foobar options.

I suggest that the groff version provides the `granularity'.  I can't
imagine that someone really wants feature X which has been available
until groff version A and feature Y which came into existence in
groff version B with A < B.


    Werner