[on troff and cut marks]

[chris at umcp-cs.UUCP]

I'm not convinced that using an ".if !\nv .tl ..." or equivalent
is the right way to make cut marks optional.  As far as I can tell,
the marks ought to be generated only for certain devices (or in
some cases -- such as the V80 which uses either fanfold or roll
paper -- for certain devices but not always).  Therefore it seems
to me that the cut marks should not be in the troff macros but in
the device driver (yes I realize that troff talks only to C/A/T
typesetters; I mean the conversion program [vcat] or in the case
of ditroff the postprocessor).

Does this not make sense?  If not, why not?
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