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commit dddd38ad078688b8f633f4f5c6c78ef5efe0125b
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Jan 30 02:57:15 2024 -0600
NEWS: Add item about man(7)'s `IP`.
Specifically, about its loss of respect for tag separation.
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NEWS | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c04787fdd..9b4e1d323 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -136,6 +136,12 @@ o The an (man) macro package now supports a `TS` register
to configure
exceeds the paragraph indentation, the line is broken after the tag.)
This parameter, formerly hard-coded as `1n`, now defaults to `2n`.
+o The an (man) macro package's `IP` macro no longer honors the formerly
+ hard-coded 1n tag separation noted in the previous item. This means
+ that the first argument to the `IP` macro can abut the text of the
+ paragraph with no intervening space. If you use a word instead of
+ punctuation for `IP`'s first argument, consider migrating to `TP`.
+
o The an (man) and doc (mdoc) macro packages now use slightly different
vertical margins when formatting for typesetters, to align more
closely with the traditional implementations of these packages. Per
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