[bug #65190] [man, mdoc] revise implementation of continuous rendering mode

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug#65190 (group groff):

Hi Dave,

[comment #3 comment #3:]
> This seems like a specific case of the general enhancement bug #61453
seeks.

Possibly we could do some ticket merging here (a manual process involving
"closing" as "duplicate", adding cross references in both directions, and
updating ticket dependencies), but I conceive of this problem as comprising 3
stages.

1.  Make it possible to represent INT_MAX in register values and decide what
to do about overflow (saturating arithmetic, maybe) and update the
documentation (bug #64301).
2.  Assign the `.R` register this value by default and update the
documentation (bug #63587).
3.  Update the man and mdoc packages to use the mechanism described at the end
of comment #0 (this bug).  Blissfully, this would require no documentation
update.  It should "just work".

Optimistically yours,
Branden


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