From: utzoo!labs
Newsgroups: gripes
Title: macro madness 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2260
Posted: Wed Jul  7 09:11:49 1982
Received: Wed Jul  7 09:11:49 1982

if it is REALLY necessary to have nroff ruin my final copy with error
messages, at least these should be accurate. telling me i had a format
error in line 1324 when my file contains only 900 lines doesn't help me
very much.

i am really annoyed that we get selective "improvements" in the macro
package while really needed fixes are ignored (certain macros "biting each
other [sorry to steal that line, wern] have been doing so and seemingly
will continue to do so "forever").

on a system that is used almost solely for text processing, i find it
appalling that so little importance is placed on having that system
work properly. seems that netnews utilities merit more attention than
mundane things like giving users proper, working tools to get work done.

		-- andy