Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X

[Anthony J. Bentley]

Ralph Corderoy writes:
> Silencing the .fc warning has easy fixes.
>
> - Require groff.  A win all round.

I don't agree. The ideal would be for mandoc to gain support for .fc
(listed in its TODO as a desired but low-importance [read: rarely used]
manpage feature), but despite its imperfect compatibility here, mandoc
is a widely used program, the default manpage formatter in most BSDs,
some Linux distributions, popular web frontends like manpages.debian.org
and man.archlinux.org, and apparently now macOS. It is worth catering for.

Considering equivalent results can be achieved with a straightforward
conversion to tbl, a widely supported and appropriately venerable tool,
I see no reason to avoid doing so.