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commit 265ab631c9b8ff1686b0713381b2fcf180ae55c7
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Jan 6 13:19:17 2021 +1100
Motivate ms default footnote length change better.
---
ChangeLog | 2 ++
NEWS | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1cd9e22..1654a14 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -150,6 +150,8 @@
as V6 Unix (1975), AT&T ms actually used a footnote line length
of 11/12ths of the text line length instead[2].
+ Heirloom Doctools and neatroff ms also use this default.
+
* tmac/s.tmac: Set default footnote line length to 11/12ths of
the text line length.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 00355b3..7763cfb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ o The doc (mdoc) macro package now honors the HY register
as the an
o The s (ms) macro package has changed the default footnote line length
(\n[FL]) from 5/6ths of the text line length (\n[LL]) to 11/12ths for
- better compatibility with ms documents prepared with AT&T ms and its
- descendants.
+ better compatibility with ms documents prepared with AT&T ms or its
+ descendant implementations in Heirloom Doctools and neatroff.
o The s (ms) macro package has added strings, \*< and \*>, to perform
subscripting within a paragraph. They work analogously to the \*{ and
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