[bug #52865] [libdriver] abandon STUPID_DRAWING_POSITIONING

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #52865 (project groff):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 1 - Wish               
              Item Group:     Incorrect behaviour => Feature change         
                  Status:               Need Info => Confirmed              
                 Summary: lib-driver, input: Df broken (since 2002) =>
[libdriver] abandon STUPID_DRAWING_POSITIONING

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Follow-up Comment #4:

I tend to concur with the submitter; our current and purportedly backward
compatible handling of these drawing commands seems quite startling and
bizarre.

Furthermore, DWB 3.3 troff is available in a form buildable and usable on
modern systems, so we can always check behavior against old-school troff, not
simply ancient versions of groff that no one uses anymore.

Expanding scope.  Let's kill STUPID_DRAWING_POSITIONING and do what is
conceptually correct, maybe for groff 1.24.


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