Re: [Groff] An environment variable for enabling compatibility mode

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I think groff could install a installation-wide compat. flags file
> that just enables all enhancements by default.

Oh no. :-)

> > I believe we need very fine granularity (i.e. we need to be able
> > to enable/disable a particular functionality).  If we just have a
> > switch to enable the foobar set of options we run into the problem
> > of someone needing some but not all of the foobar options.
> 
> I agree about the fine granularity, but I guess there could be
> aliases for sets, e.g. `all'.

Again, please show me *real* examples.  Until now, only my proposed
change to `refer' really changes syntax in an incompatible way.


    Werner