[bug #57836] groff's adjustment algorithm is not environment-aware

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #57836 (project groff):

Brilliant!

Since diversions and environments don't necessarily go hand in hand, your
solution may not improve the output of the specific example in the original
submission,  But it _does_ give the user a tool to solve the problem
himself--which, for edge cases like this, ought to be good enough.

[comment #4 comment #4:]
> Consider: a diversion gobbles up the current partially collected line
> _if there is one_.  I'm thinking that it is therefore hard to judge
> whether the adjustment parity should be reset upon simply entering a
> diversion or not, since there might not be a partially collected line,
> if a break happened accidentally or otherwise just before the diversion
> was created.

It seems like this diversion behavior is something you want only if you're
writing for an Obfuscated Code contest, which I presume is why (a) .box was
invented, and (b) the new-environment-for-new-diversion advice is given.

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