[Groff] Re: some details missing from your patch

[Werner LEMBERG]

Gaius,


thanks for your explanations.

> [...] tags generated via `.tag' are only emitted once.  But they are
> issued after the previous troff state (as one would expect) and with
> no space between the last list of specials generated by a troff
> state change.  Diversions of course generate quite a few tags
> (restoring and changing) the troff state (br, in, sp, ll) but these
> tags are not generated via the request `.tag' but by `.sp', `.br'
> etc.
>
> This behaviour differs from the `.taga' which will emit the user tag
> before the next glyph is written to the ditroff output stream.  Note
> that a troff state change could occur in-between.  [...]

Just to be the devil's advocate: Do we need `.tag' at all (as it is
currently implemented)?  Isn't `.taga' completely sufficient?
According to your description, I would say yes.  Or am I missing
something?


    Werner