Re: undiagnosed pic error

[Dave Kemper]

On 6/11/23, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Pic accepts any modifier attached to any command that admits
> some modifier, and simply ignores those that don't make sense.

This seems in line with the general permissiveness of (g)roff itself
ignoring extraneous parameters to requests.
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61450#comment0 seeks to warn about it in
groff.