[bug #60061] narrow the scope of the groff Texinfo manual

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #60061 (project groff):

                 Summary: Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual => narrow the
scope of the groff Texinfo manual

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Follow-up Comment #13:

Checkpointing my thoughts:

1.  Ditch the DEC Ultrix man(7) extension stuff.  Move the documentary
material into the macro file itself.  (Possibly start shipping that as an
example instead of in /tmac/, but that's strictly a separate issue from this
ticket.)

2.  Ditch the translation of ms.ms, or justify its presence.

3.  Add material to the end of the "Tutorial for Macro Package Users" chapter
discussing basic definition and use of registers, macros, and (maybe) strings.
 Much of this can be picked up from groff_mm(7), deposited here, and
translated to Texinfo.

And not scope-related, but...

4.  Rewrite the description of GNU troff's output format.  It is
insufficiently precise.

See [https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-10/msg00016.html recent
mailing list discussion].


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