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commit 2ce42adc057709142d4ae643aa06f5d2b6a66217
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue May 27 19:06:12 2025 -0500
NEWS: Clarify items.
---
NEWS | 17 +++++++++--------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c1ce07639..63bb04713 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -287,12 +287,12 @@ soelim
* soelim no longer requires embedded space characters in `so` arguments
to be backslash-escaped. (It continues to support that syntax, even
- though neither AT&T nor GNU troff ever has.) You can now embed a
- sequence of leading spaces in the argument by prefixing it with a
- with a neutral double quote character ("), which the program
- discards. These changes are to better align this program's parsing
- rules with the language of the formatter; consider the `ds` and `as`
- requests.
+ though neither the AT&T nor GNU troff formatters ever have.) You can
+ now embed a sequence of leading spaces in the argument by prefixing
+ it with a with a neutral double quote character ("), which the
+ program discards. These changes are to better align this program's
+ parsing rules with the language of the formatter; consider the `ds`
+ and `as` requests.
Macro packages
--------------
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ Macro packages
* The device-specific macro files loaded by "troffrc" automatically on
startup, such as "html.tmac", no longer perform font translations for
- font names used by varieties of AT&T troff ('C', 'Hb', 'HX', and
+ some font names used by varieties of AT&T troff ('C', 'Hb', 'HX', and
several others).
These names are not portable: in AT&T troff, the font repertoire,
@@ -585,7 +585,8 @@ Macro packages
* The m (mm) macro package now supports a user-definable hook macro
`RPX`, which if defined is called by `RP` in lieu of the latter's
- normal operation (formatting the reference list caption string `Rp`).
+ normal operation (breaking the page [potentially], and formatting the
+ reference list caption string `Rp`).
* The m (mm) macro package's `LI` macro now interprets its second
argument as a Boolean value indicating whether a space should
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