On 6/11/23, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcil...@dartmouth.edu> wrote: > Pic accepts any modifier attached to any command that admits > some modifier, and simply ignores those that don't make sense.
This seems in line with the general permissiveness of (g)roff itself ignoring extraneous parameters to requests. http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61450#comment0 seeks to warn about it in groff.