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

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #59906 (project groff):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 1 - Wish               
                  Status:               Need Info => Wont Fix               
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #2:

The status quo has been documented for a long time, so this is really a wish
list request more than a bug report; updating severity.

I'm also steadily becoming less convinced that the fixed-width semantics of GW
are worth the candle.

It seems as easy to just tell people to use MINGW with its lower-bound
semantics as it does to warn GW users that groff ms supports the register but
gives a different meaning.

And it's not like groff ms even works in compatibility mode.  If someone has
an ms document that they want to format with historical troff+ms and GNU
troff+ms, they can write conditionals using \n(.g.  I'm not sure _what_ they'd
do if they wanted control of the gutter width in such a document, however.

In fact, I think I've talked myself out of wanting this.  Someone who has a
use case for it can reopen this ticket or re-raise the matter on the
discussion list.

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