[bug #63332] recent fallbacks.tmac change degrades ASCII output

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #63332 (project groff):

I confirm that your patch solves the \(dd and \(dg problem.

I was convinced that a more surgical ".if t" on those lines would also do the
trick--but it doesn't.

Weirdly, even adding the line ".if t .tm troff mode" to that file prints
"troff mode" on stderr when groff is run with -Tascii.  I presume this is
because tmac/troffrc
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/tmac/troffrc> loads
fallbacks.tmac _before_ loading the device-specific .tmac file.  This means
the other "t" conditionals in fallbacks.tmac also don't do what was intended.

[comment #3 comment #3:]
> None of this explains why most of the other new fallbacks
> don't have the same problem.

I didn't actually test most of the others, but maybe you have.  It sounds like
you tested at least \(bu.

> So if that patch is enough to fix the regression, I'd like to
> apply it, un-tag this for 1.23.0, and move on to other things,
> returning to it when I have more time and understand
> character/glyph resolution better.

Sounds good to me.


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