Re: What features would you like in GNU troff?

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From: Scott Barman
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1989 16:27

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In article <159@unmvax.unm.edu> brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd) writes:
>Diagnostic messages when you do something stupid
>
>Testing if an object (e.g., macro or string) is defined.
>Tracing

This brings up something that I wished for before:

	I think it is possible to do a dbx-like debugger for troff to debug
macros (I have a few ideas on how to implement this).  Is someone working
on this--or have this done?  I would be very interested in seeing this!

-- 
scott barman
{gatech, emory}!dtscp1!scott

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Subject: Re: What features would you like in GNU troff?
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