Re: [Groff] Hygienic mode design

[Eric S. Raymond]

Doug McIlroy <address@hidden>:
> Before jumping headfirst into .hygiene, it would be well to
> consider independent style advisors along the lines of Lint or HTML
> validators.

I suspect this mail may have crossed a post of mine about defect patterns
in the real-world man-page corpus.  I thought when I wrote it that would
be of *particular* interest to you. 

URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2014-03/msg00039.html

Summary: the experiment you want done has in fact been running for 
ten years as a side effect of my work on doclifter.  I believe
on evidence from the field that we have reached the point where only
sterner and more prescriptive measures will advance the game. 
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>