On 22/07/17 11:44, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >> If the order of the groff pipeline is responsible for Erich's problem >> (soelim needs to come before preconv), is this something to change or >> something to document? > > Change has been mooted in the past, including by Werner. > Some old relevant threads. > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2006-01/msg00022.html
I guess Werner's original proposal, that soelim and preconv should be folded into a single preprocessor, was never implemented; maybe that idea should be revisited? > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2010-01/msg00058.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2012-12/msg00030.html -- Regards, Keith.
