Re: [Groff] Setting different page lengths for troff and nroff

[Keith MARSHALL]

Werner Lemberg wrote, quoting me:
>> ".ifn" is AT&T syntax; since AT&T troff allows only two characters
>> in a request name, this is interpreted as ".if n", with the missing
>> space implicitly understood.  To support arbitrary long request
>> names, groff *never* allows this space to be omitted.
>
> Except in compatibility mode.

Of course.  Thanks for the reminder.

Regards,
Keith.