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commit 140f7bbafc129719a98357672630af36552f933e
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Aug 20 08:35:26 2024 -0500
NEWS: Clarify items.
---
NEWS | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4ff48fb03..0f60197e7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ o The `mso` request no longer attempts to open a macro file
named, say,
simply processes the macro search path for a file name matching the
request argument, and succeeds or fails depending on an exact match.
+ If you desire this functionality for portability (keeping in mind that
+ `mso` is itself a groff extension), consider the following.
+
+ .\" Load the ms package, whatever it might be named.
+ .msoquiet s.tmac
+ .if !d LP .msoquiet tmac.s
+
o GNU troff no longer accepts nonpositive page lengths. Attempting to
set one with the `pl` request clamps the page length to the vertical
motion quantum as `ll` does with the horizontal motion quantum in AT&T
@@ -280,13 +287,13 @@ o The an (man), doc (mdoc), and doc-old (mdoc-old) macro
packages have
can still instruct groff to format for any desired line length by
setting the `LL` register on {g,n,t}roff's command line.
-o The an (man) and doc (mdoc) macro packages now use slightly different
- vertical margins to align more closely with the traditional
- implementations of these packages. Per man(7) in the AT&T Unix System
- III manual (June 1980), the text area was 6.5 by 10 inches (on
- typesetters). When formatting for terminals with continuous rendering
- disabled (by default, it is enabled), the page footer now sets 1 line
- higher than before.
+o The an (man) and doc (mdoc) macro packages use slightly different
+ vertical margins than previously, to align more closely with the
+ traditional implementations of these packages. Per man(7) in the AT&T
+ Unix System III manual (June 1980), the text area was 6.5 by 10 inches
+ (on typesetters). When formatting for terminals with continuous
+ rendering disabled (by default, it is enabled), the page footer now
+ sets 1 line higher than before.
o The an (man) and doc (mdoc) macro packages have added additional
registers `BP`, `PO`, and `TS` for user configuration of man page
@@ -319,8 +326,9 @@ o The an (man) macro package's `IP` macro no longer honors
the formerly
punctuation or a list enumerator for `IP`'s first argument, consider
migrating to `TP`.
-o The "an-ext.tmac" macro file no longer defines `DS` and `DE` macros.
- It had defined them as empty (undocumentedly) since 2009.
+o The "an-ext.tmac" macro file, loaded automatically by the an (man)
+ macro package, no longer defines `DS` and `DE` macros. It had defined
+ them as empty (undocumentedly) since 2009.
o The doc (mdoc) macro package's `Mt` macro now sets its argument in
roman, not italics (or whatever the string `doc-Pa-font` was
@@ -353,12 +361,12 @@ o The doc (mdoc) macro package now honors the `U`
register and `MF`
o The new macro file "koi8-r.tmac" supports the KOI8-R character
encoding, which supports the new Russian locale for groff.
-o The m (mm) macro package's `Limsp` (a GNU extension) register has been
+o The m (mm) macro package's `Limsp` register (a GNU extension) has been
removed; see the item regarding the `LI` macro below.
-o The m (mm) macro package's `AST` macro is deprecated, warns upon
- usage, and is slated for withdrawal in the next release. Assign to
- the new string `Abstract` instead.
+o The m (mm) macro package's `AST` macro (a GNU extension) is
+ deprecated, warns upon usage, and is slated for withdrawal in the next
+ release. Assign to the new string `Abstract` instead.
o The m (mm) macro package's `EPIC` macro (a GNU extension) now
interprets its "width" argument in ens by default, and its "height"
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