[bug #59906] [ms] alias MINGW register to GW

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
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                 Summary: [ms] alias MINGW register to GW
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: gbranden
            Submitted on: Tue 19 Jan 2021 04:44:53 AM UTC
                Category: Macro - ms
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: New feature
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Per discussion on the mailing list, it is worth researching the semantics of
GW in V7 Unix troff and using that register name instead of the GNU extension
MINGW for the same purpose.

MINGW can be retained as an alias of GW to avoid breaking documents written in
the expectation that they'd be formatted with GNU ms.

See
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2020-12/msg00032.html
and its follow-ups
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2020-12/msg00035.html
and
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2020-12/msg00038.html .




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