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bug #66348: [troff] support neatroff's `.%` register for page sequence number

Submitter:  G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Submitted:  Thu 17 Oct 2024 04:15:46 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Core Severity:  1 - Wish
Item Group:  Feature change Status:  Postponed
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Thu 14 Nov 2024 07:01:05 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Post-1.24.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Thu 17 Oct 2024 04:15:46 PM UTC, original submission:  

A *roff document can have many pages numbered "1".

But a page sequence number montonically increases.

Maybe also support an extension to the `-o` options argument parser to accept a sequence number list instead of an explicit page number list.

Prompted by bug #64469.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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