[Groff] Re: some details missing from your patch

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > If I understand that correctly, tags issued with `.tag' are
> > emitted twice under particular circumstances, right?  Can you
> > provide a small example?

Could you answer this, please?

> >   .tag -- a new request which is really the equivalent to \X'...'.
>
> this emits a tag with a tailing space between itself and the
> next glyph.

Why?  If I say

  a\c
  .ft foo
  b

I also don't get a space between a and b.

> > .tag1 -- this is currently called .tag
>
> this emits a tag without a tailing space between itself and the next
> glyph. Maybe the name could be changed to `.tagns' or do you wish to
> keep to the numeral extension?

I'm open to all suggestions which make sense.  But we have already
.tm1 and .de1, so it is probably not a bad choice.


    Werner