[bug #55060] [me] behavior of .ll does not match documentation

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #55060 (project groff):

Hi, Dave!

[comment #9 comment #9:]
> [comment #8 comment #8:]
> > Can we treat this as a fresh bug?  Its scope is much greater,
> 
> Yes, that was my intent with that sentence, for that very reason.  Sorry if
that was unclear.

No worries!

> The committed change disregards the recommendation in comment #6 and
continues defining .xl and .ll in terms of environments (a troff concept
meref.me neither defines nor expects the user to know) rather than in terms of
their effects on the output.  The explanation is at least correct now, but I'm
wondering what the rationale is for retaining that terminology.

The only reason for the disregard was that I already had the patch written by
that point and had moved on to other tasks.  (I push in batches...my working
tree and branch go through much churn between pushes, with copious interactive
rebases and use of the git stash.)

I certainly don't mind restoring meref.me readers' innocence of the
"environment" concept, especially since as a term it collides with other uses
in operating system contexts.

But that will require a more considered rewrite than the band-aid of commit
a61cd74ad38b7948f63784ae1373e572fcf12292.

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