[bug #60655] want option for output drivers to suppress comments

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #60655 (project groff):

[comment #8 comment #8:]
> I think there was a message on here recently which highlighted
> how few letters were left for flags,

You're likely thinking of the discussion in bug #60571, which catalogued the
remaining letters available for new in-document escapes.  I mentioned Unix
command-line switches in passing as a related general concern, but a shortage
related to groff in particular was never brought up as an issue.

It's true that the groff command itself has nearly used up its single-letter
switch allotment, but grops and gropdf have plenty of available slots.

Still, no point in burning through them willy-nilly: maybe these two new
filters under consideration could be clumped under the same option, taking a
parameter (like grops' -b option does) specifying what to filter.  (For grops
in particular, the existing -b option could even be extended to cover this,
but that would alter its semantics, as the things it currently filters all
have compatibility implications.)

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