Re: [Groff] changing .em behaviour?

[Mike Bianchi]

I agree with make the bizarre behavior a "compatible" feature.

This discussion explains oddities I never figured out and got out of use
brute force.
                                                        Mike

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:50:28AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> Joachim told me that in the original documentation of the AT&T troff
> the addition
> 
>   ...but all processing ceases at the next page eject
> 
> in the description of the `em' request is missing.  He thus suspects
> that this bug has been raised to be a feature; instead of fixing it
> they just documented it.
> 
> What do you think about enabling this bizarre behaviour of `em' only
> in compatibility mode?  As already mentioned, I can't think of any
> useful application.  This would save us from introducing the proposed
> `em1' request.
> 
>     Werner

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