Re: Groff-1.22.1: No pdfdocdir created

[Ingo Schwarze]

Hi Werner,

Werner LEMBERG wrote on Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 11:13:12AM +0100:

> What about other troff implementations?  I've just tried heirloom
> troff (compiled from CVS in April 2009), and it exposes exactly the
> same incorrect behaviour as GNU troff if I use the above example with
> `.ds'...

Even though mandoc(1) is not a real troff(1) implementation,
given that it implements *some* roff(7) requests commonly occurring
in man(7) and mdoc(7) documents, let me provide a brief answer:

The mandoc(1) utility does not currently implement .char or .fschar.

But i agree that, if somebody attempts to map an undefined character
escape sequence to something else, printing an error message and
ignoring the mapping attempt altogether makes more sense than printing
the error message and executing the definition right away, once.

Yours,
  Ingo