[groff] 07/07: ChangeLog: Bolster a rationale in an old entry.

[G. Branden Robinson]

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commit 74b4d01815a5ed492d48643f28a17176dd38bbd6
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sun Oct 3 03:59:03 2021 +1100

    ChangeLog: Bolster a rationale in an old entry.
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        macro instead of RI.  The latter seemed kind of random and TH
        is even more guaranteed to exist; it is the macro name most
        characteristic of the man(7) language and the andoc.tmac
-       superstructure relies on it.
+       superstructure relies on it.  (TH may have been avoided because
+       of its use with tbl(1); however, neither man(7) nor mdoc(7)
+       support tbl's TH feature, and GNU tbl does not supply its own
+       empty fallback definition as it does for TS and TE.  If we ever
+       want TH-like functionality in future man pages, I suggest we
+       pick a new, non-colliding name for it.)
        (initialization): Relocate load of devtag package; we don't
        need it before entering compatibility mode.  Move assignment of
        format of an-page-letter register from a "loose declaration"