> I've in the process of debugging grohtml and macro sets and was
> wondering whether it might be useful to add a debugging mode to
> groff.
Hmm.
> I tend to find debugging diversions difficult as well as tracking
> contents of registers and strings etc. So my thoughts turned to
> whether it would be possible to add a pseudo gdb interface to groff.
This looks like a big effort. To debug diversions I rather suggest
adding a dumping macro which displays the current contents in an
unambiguous form, including all `internal' characters and nodes.
> Once a filename:line pair has been added to 'node' - I suspect that
> a number of these are pretty easy to implement.
Maybe, I don't know. I've absolutely no experience in adding an
interactive interface to a batch-like program.
Werner
