Re: [Groff] Critique this bold-italic private macro for man pages

[Carsten Kunze]

> John Gardner <address@hidden> hat am 3. Mai 2017 um 21:55 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> Is there literally no way to identify when a modern (non-GNU) troff is
> being used?

General typesetting is something else.  Heirloom has this kludge only for 
manpages, neatroff (AFAIK not used for manpages) likely does not set .g.

There are ways to detect the formatter but a manpage must not do this.  IMHO a 
manpage should suppose that groff is used.  If groff has bugs (e.g. compared to 
mandoc(1)) they should be fixed.

Carsten