Re: [Groff] Device-independence of intermediate output

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The groff intermediate output language does not support this feature
> - although it is a base feature of device independent troff, on
> which groff was originally built.
> 
> Fortunately, it seems to be easy to implement this feature by
> providing a scaling factor to the arguments of some arguments.
> 
> This feature is quite powerful; it will be possible to run code
> written for the ancient troff devices on any modern groff device.
> 
> Is there agreement on the necessity of this feature?

Compatibility is always a good thing IMHO.  Please give more details.


    Werner