An extremely lazy proposal

[Oliver Corff]

Dear All,

recently I compiled, and re-compiled, and again recompiled a set of
various documents with different tables, equations etc.. For each of the
documents, the precise requirements of preprocessors were different, and
more often than not, I forgot to set the appropriate groff option when
running the compilation to the effect that I had to redo my edit - check
cycle. Since there is no groffer script anymore, may I humbly propose a
new option to groff, namlely "-A" (mnemomic: [A]ll preprocessors) which
forces all available preprocessors to be used? The penalty of this
display of laziness is, in my eyes, minor: running a document against a
preprocessor which is not needed does not do any harm I am aware of (I
stand to be corrected in case there is such a situation), and since we
talk only of a handful of preprocessors, not dozens, the overhead in CPU
time should also be acceptable; all the more since -A would be invoked
only in case of the presumed presence of any of tables, equations,
pictures, reference lists.

I am ready to accept the appropriate reprimand for this idea.

Best regards,

Oliver.

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Dr. Oliver Corff
Mail:oliver.corff@email.de