Re: [groff] Of grog, preprocessors, and missing programs

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi John,

> > > https://github.com/Alhadis/Roff.js/blob/8678ef365626e049c58b4ad65d62383fe7db49b9/lib/adapters/troff/groff.mjs#L575
> >
> > What's the problem with grog suggesting something that isn't
> > installed?
>
> Rendering needs to succeed even if the necessary preprocessors aren't
> installed; the adapter makes sure to call Groff without options it
> knows are unsupported.

Right, in either the grog case, or the no-grog-installed case.

> This is a setting where an incorrect rendering is more tolerable than
> *no* rendering whatsoever; hence the song-and-dance routine.

Yes.

So it all works as is now you've written the code, you're just pointing
out that grog's current behaviour meant you had to take this route?

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.