Dear All, recently I compiled, and re-compiled, and again recompiled a set of various documents with different tables, equations etc.. For each of the documents, the precise requirements of preprocessors were different, and more often than not, I forgot to set the appropriate groff option when running the compilation to the effect that I had to redo my edit - check cycle. Since there is no groffer script anymore, may I humbly propose a new option to groff, namlely "-A" (mnemomic: [A]ll preprocessors) which forces all available preprocessors to be used? The penalty of this display of laziness is, in my eyes, minor: running a document against a preprocessor which is not needed does not do any harm I am aware of (I stand to be corrected in case there is such a situation), and since we talk only of a handful of preprocessors, not dozens, the overhead in CPU time should also be acceptable; all the more since -A would be invoked only in case of the presumed presence of any of tables, equations, pictures, reference lists.
I am ready to accept the appropriate reprimand for this idea. Best regards, Oliver. -- Dr. Oliver Corff Mail:oliver.co...@email.de