> Why not allowing (not forcing) this additional first line also for > every other files written in some `groff' language document?
You rather mean: Why not make groff accept such a line to invoke preprocessors? I think that this approach is too simplistic; for example, it doesn't allow for preprocessor options. > That is already done in `grog', but I don't know who to implement > that in the `groff' program. My gut feeling is that improving grog is more useful than spending time to make groff do the same. Werner