[Groff] Re: grohtml related patches

[Gaius Mulley]

> I'm not really happy about this part of the patch.  IMHO it isn't
> necessary; adding `.nroff' to tmac.html should be sufficient (and I
> will do this right now instead of applying this patch snippet --
> please test).  What do you think?

yes this is a much cleaner solution. I've forgot about this command...

> In general, do you believe that it
> is possible to get rid of the `is_html' switch in input.cc?  It is the
> only device-dependent part in this file -- if such a flag is really
> necessary, I would prefer to have a request like `.html' which sets
> the flag instead of hard-coding it.

Certainly it can be turned on by a command rather than -Thtml. I think
we could alter the variable name (and accompanying methods) to be less
device specific, `enable_meta_tags' maybe? Turned on by a new request
`.emt'.  Alternatively we could set this variable by introducing a new
field inside dev*/DESC ?

Gaius