What features would you like in GNU troff?

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From: Tim Bray
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1989 16:56

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Apologies for cluttering net-bandwidth; couldn't get mail through.

A tiny weeny nit, but:  In various troffs, including ditroff, you can't 
.ss
or even
'ss
in the middle of an output line and have it take effect right there.  (Bet
a substantial proportion of (even moderately serious) troff hacks don't
know what .ss does).

This behaviour is not documented as far as I know, so it should be
documented or fixed.

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