Hi Damian, > I have decade's of files tht I need to have work correctly wirh groff > without editing things.
Then you may like to be aware there are other problems with groff's mm macros. The one I recall is a regression where 1.17.2 worked and 1.18 didn't. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/groff/+bug/42764 (Does groff have a test suite which spots ink moving in a corpus covering a range of decades yet?) -- Cheers, Ralph.