[bug #61002] [an.tmac]: old macro "an-trap" is used in some manuals

[Ingo Schwarze]

Update of bug #61002 (project groff):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 1 - Wish               

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Follow-up Comment #1:

I advise against this.  If people use undocumented internal features of a
system that are not part of the API, they get what they deserve: their stuff
will inevitably break at some point.

The DocBook crowd does that very frequently and in large numbers of respects,
usually in completely gratuitious and particularly unreasonable ways.  Trying
to cater for that would be a hopeless uphill battle deep down into a
bottomless rabbit hole.  Catering for a random, single instance of such
madness out of many that exist helps no one and encumnbers the groff codebase
for now good reason.

Even if providing full backward compatibility for DocBook, which does not seem
feasible at all, DocBook rendering quality would still remain abysmal because
DocBook output is just wrong in so many respects.  So the whole project would
be pointless.

If you care about DocBook, report DocBook bugs to the DocBook crowd, not to
groff.  You will have *insane* amounts of work to do.  Good luck.

Ultimately, the whole official DocBook toolchain ought to be abandoned because
it is utterly ill-designed and unmaintainable.  Existing documents can be
salvaged with tools like docbook2mdoc, the output of which is readily usable
with groff.

I suggest closing this ticket as "won't fix".

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