Re: [Groff] bug in GNU troff?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Werner,

> OK, you've convinced me that the default behaviour of a tab should
> stay as it is.  Nevertheless, I will eventually add a request, say,
> `.linetabs [0|1]', which will honour partial lines.

>From reading the _Troff User's Guide_ I think that determining the
field length, section 9.2, will also behave this way.

> > Compatibility mode is too coarse a granularity.  If on then long
> > names are sorely lacking.  A set of compatibility flags to control
> > each group of extensions might help.
> 
> What `group of extensions' do you mean?  Is there anything else in
> groff's default mode which you don't like?

Not off the top of my head, but altering tabs behaviour would have been
one of them :-)


Ralph.