[bug #64959] [troff] add unit tests for `device` and `output` requests

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64959>

                 Summary: [troff] add unit tests for `device` and `output`
requests 
                   Group: GNU roff
               Submitter: gbranden
               Submitted: Fri 01 Dec 2023 09:13:13 PM UTC
                Category: Core
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: Test
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Follow-up Comments:


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Date: Fri 01 Dec 2023 09:13:13 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Check a few cases:

1. plain usage
2. leading quotation mark for passage of multi-word argument(s)
3. usage very early in the document

There appears to be an undiagnosed issue with `device`.  You can invoke it
"too early", and it won't appear on the output.  This might be the case any
time the vertical drawing position is negative.  Investigate and document.

You can invoke `output` wherever you want, but this can also break the
invariant claimed in "Document parts" [sic] of groff_out(5).  So something
documentary needs to be said about that too.







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