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

[Deri James]

Follow-up Comment #12, bug #60655 (project groff):

Hi Dave,

I don't see much fragility in what you are using now, the postscript language
"build artifacts" are unlikely to change in any meaningful way which will stop
your current workflow from continuing to work.

Perhaps a general user who has a similar requirement, if they ask the best way
to do it, we could point them to diffing the -Z output to avoid problems with
diffing postscript output. Just as you had to learn how to read the groff
postscript language to understand the diffs, they may find it easier to learn
the groff intermediate format which is much simpler than the postscript
language.

I agree a user is unlikely to retain ancient -Z files, but in the use case you
posited, they would still have the original troff input, so before making any
amendments they could produce a -Z file, then make the changes and generate
another -Z file which can be diffed to make sure nothing had changed. After
all, an ancient groff postscript file may have many differences if changes
have been made to grops, that do not alter the actual rastered content on the
page.

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