Hi Branden!

I've been thinking about a suggestion I've done in the past.  I wanted a
program that reads man(7) source and produces roff(7) source, so that it
can later be passed to troff(1), thus splitting the groff(1) pipeline a
bit more.  The idea is similar to how eqn(1) and other pre-troff filters
do their job.

The purposes of this are debugging, and also learning roff(7) starting
from a decent understanding of a given macro package.

I'll reword my suggestion slightly differently, which maybe makes more
sense to you:

Would you add a -Troff output device that prints roff(7) source?  Or
maybe a --roff-out flag that modifies the behavior of troff(1) to print
roff(7) out instead of its usual job.

Have a lovely day!
Alex

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