[bug #66233] ./nroff in "master"/build uses the 'nroff' in the $PATH

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #66233 (group groff):


[comment #3 comment #3:]
> [comment #1 comment #1:]
> > tgu is aliased to `./build/test-groff -b -ww -Tutf8'
> 
> To properly simulate nroff functionality, you should amend that alias to
include the -mtty-char option, which nroff.sh adds unconditionally to its
generated groff command.  (The proposed patch in bug #62814 would negate the
need for this addition.)

Fair point.  I didn't mention it because I don't ever use it myself, and I am
in fact somewhat uneasy with the way this feature is presented.

It feels to me more like the alternation of renderings as "tty-char" does
should be controlled by a device-specific register instead of by selective
load of a macro package that _nroff_ defaults to performing.  The latter
technique messes up _nroff_'s orthogonality, in my opinion.


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