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commit 742b86f3a24d41eacbad2765cac3e04bd9ff5253
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Feb 18 21:16:31 2026 -0600
ChangeLog: Copy-edit old entries.
Try to use syntax more consistent with recommendations of GNU Coding
Standards (supplemented with Markdown-ish conventions of our own).
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Style-of-Change-Logs
Fix typos.
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ChangeLog | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0306fdd46..4c52cb3c6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
variable `HAVE_GHOSTSCRIPT` rather than the disappearing
`GROPDF_INTER`.
+ Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68060>.
+
2026-01-20 Deri James <[email protected]>
Install groff fonts according to gropdf mode.
@@ -31,18 +33,19 @@
Intermediate : All 35 Postscript 2 fonts
Basic : Just 14 PDF standard fonts
- (Reinstates groff 1.23.0 behaviour).
+ {Reinstates groff 1.23.0 behaviour.}
- * configure.ac: Add automake conditional GROPDF_INTER. Set if
- not in basic mode.
+ * configure.ac: Add Automake variable `GROPDF_INTER`. Set if not
+ in basic mode.
* font/devpdf/devpdf.am: Split groff fonts list into 3 so that
- the 3 modes above can be accommodated, based on the two automake
- conditionals GROPDF_INTER and HAVE_URW_FONTS.
+ the 3 modes above can be accommodated, based on the two Automake
+ variables `GROPDF_INTER` and `HAVE_URW_FONTS`.
- * m4/groff.m4: Fix logic error setting 'gropdf_service_level'.
+ * m4/groff.m4 (GROFF_GROPDF_DEPENDENCIES_CHECK): Fix logic error
+ setting `gropdf_service_level` shell variable.
- Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?68060>
+ Begins fixing <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68060>.
2026-02-12 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
@@ -70,7 +73,7 @@
itself. This procedure cannot be perfectly reliable using _any_
ordering because host systems can update their Ghostscript and
URW font packages (if any) on separate and arbitrary schedules,
- and these matters are outside of groff's contol. If groff finds
+ and these matters are outside of groff's control. If groff finds
the "wrong" URW fonts (or can't find them at all), use the
"--with-urw-fonts-dir=" option to groff's "configure" script to
point it at the correct ones.
@@ -402,7 +405,7 @@
* font/devpdf/devpdf.am (BuildFoundries): Add `urwfontsupport`
to set of sed(1) substitutions performed when generating target.
* font/devpdf/util/BuildFoundries.pl: Add `urwfontsupport`
- scalar, taking value of corresponding sed substituion.
+ scalar, taking value of corresponding sed substitution.
(LoadFoundry): Suppress warning about unavailable font if
`urwfontsupport` matches "no".
@@ -1489,7 +1492,7 @@
`read_long_identifier()`, because it's used for more than just
reading "names" (request, macro, string, or diversion
identifiers), but also identifiers of environments, colors,
- registers, typefaces (fonts, famililies, and styles), and file
+ registers, typefaces (fonts, families, and styles), and file
names. (The last occurs only in `ps_bbox_request()` and might
be inapposite; GNU troff now handles file names with spaces in
them, and that might not work because the `psbb` request is not
@@ -2013,14 +2016,14 @@
(read_rgb, read_cmy, read_cmyk, read_gray, do_get_long_name):
Update definitions.
(get_long_name): Update `do_get_long_name()` call site to use
- literal of `unsigned char` rathern than `char` type.
+ literal of `unsigned char` rather than `char` type.
(do_get_long_name): Change type of local variable `buf` from
`char` to `unsigned char`, since it is directly populated by
reads of bytes from the input stream. This function converts
said input into an object of the groff class `symbol` and
returns it, but `symbol` has no constructor accepting a pointer
to `const unsigned char`. Consequently, once we have
- successfuly populated `buf`, create a new buffer `chbuf`, a
+ successfully populated `buf`, create a new buffer `chbuf`, a
heap-allocated array of `char` type. Free this array after
constructing a `symbol` on the stack. (If all this seems like
rigmarole, consider that it's going to be necessary anyway when
@@ -2187,7 +2190,7 @@
* src/roff/troff/input.cpp (define_class_request): Add assertion
and, if preprocessor `NDEBUG` symbol is defined, guard against
- null pointer derefrence.
+ null pointer dereference.
2025-12-05 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
@@ -2302,7 +2305,7 @@
* src/roff/troff/input.cpp (token::description): Hedge against
programmer carelessness. If someone creates a node type without
- a human-readable descripion, pre-populate the buffer describing
+ a human-readable description, pre-populate the buffer describing
it with a revealing description that is less frustrating than
nothing at all.
@@ -2408,8 +2411,8 @@
of presenting the user with an empty pair of quotation marks.
Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67747>. Problem dates
- back to intoduction of `warnscale` request in commit 9993a881c1,
- 5 May 2002.
+ back to introduction of `warnscale` request in commit
+ 9993a881c1, 5 May 2002.
2025-11-30 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
@@ -2419,8 +2422,8 @@
inches.
Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67748>. Problem dates
- back to intoduction of `warnscale` request in commit 9993a881c1,
- 5 May 2002.
+ back to introduction of `warnscale` request in commit
+ 9993a881c1, 5 May 2002.
2025-11-30 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
@@ -3478,7 +3481,7 @@
U+007E to predefined special character escape sequences (see
groff_char(7)). For all other Unicode code points, write out an
escape sequence of the form `\[uYXXXX]`. Finally, if none of
- the foreging mappings exist, throw an error diagnostic and dump
+ the foregoing mappings exist, throw an error diagnostic and dump
the glyph's "charinfo", as if `pchar` were invoked on a
corresponding GNU troff character.
@@ -5135,8 +5138,8 @@
2025-09-02 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
* doc/doc.am (DOC_GROFF): Move `-M` option that is present only
- for the sake of building "grnexampl.ps" from this macro...
- (doc/grnexampl.ps): ...to this target rule.
+ for the sake of building "grnexmpl.ps" from this macro...
+ (doc/grnexmpl.ps): ...to this target rule.
2025-09-02 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
@@ -6237,7 +6240,7 @@
2025-07-12 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
- * tmac/eqnrc: Drop unneccessary setup. Since commit 4b3e5417d5,
+ * tmac/eqnrc: Drop unnecessary setup. Since commit 4b3e5417d5,
18 February 2017, GNU eqn self-serves by synthesizing
conditional empty fallback definitions of `EQ` and `EN` in its
output.
@@ -7256,13 +7259,13 @@
* tmac/tmac.am (tmac/groff_man.7.man)
(tmac/groff_man_style.7.man): Make m4(1) write to a temporary
file, then process the temporary file with `mdate.pl` to replace
- the aforementioned subtitutum. As a side effect, there is no
+ the aforementioned substitutum. As a side effect, there is no
longer an `@MDATE@` in the file for the ".man" suffix rule in
"Makefile.am" to affect.
2025-06-21 Deri James <[email protected]>
- Remove unneccessary call to pdf parser.
+ Remove unnecessary call to pdf parser.
* src/devices/gropdf/gropdf.pl (do_X) </OUT>: Parse Title/Level
manually.
@@ -7455,7 +7458,7 @@
2025-06-06 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
* tmac/an-ext.tmac (SY): The single-argument form of `SY` need
- not set an ubreakable space and output line continuation escape
+ not set an unbreakable space and output line continuation escape
sequence after formatting the argument. That distinction is in
fact the whole point of accepting a second argument (a new
post-1.23 feature), which is set in bold like the first. (It is
@@ -8199,11 +8202,11 @@
"infinite".
(Dd): Call `doc-break-page-with-new-number` only if _not_
continuously rendering.
- (doc-end-macro): If continously rendering, stop incrementing the
- page length prior to writing the footer and document separation
- rule, and upon encountering the end of the last document (the
- input file name register `.F` becomes empty), set the page
- length to the vertical drawing position.
+ (doc-end-macro): If continuously rendering, stop incrementing
+ the page length prior to writing the footer and document
+ separation rule, and upon encountering the end of the last
+ document (the input file name register `.F` becomes empty), set
+ the page length to the vertical drawing position.
Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65190> (2/2).
@@ -8418,7 +8421,7 @@
2025-05-15 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
- [troff]: Continue fixing Savanah #64104 after two years.
+ [troff]: Continue fixing Savannah #64104 after two years.
* src/roff/troff/input.cpp (assign_control_character): Fix bug
when `cc` request given no arguments; don't try to make the
@@ -8576,7 +8579,7 @@
* src/roff/troff/env.h: Drop global constant unsigned `int`s
`MARGIN_CHARACTER_ON` and `MARGIN_CHARACTER_NEXT` in favor of...
- (class enviromment): ...a public anonymous enum type with
+ (class environment): ...a public anonymous enum type with
constant values `MC_ON` and `MC_NEXT`.
* src/roff/troff/env.cpp (environment::environment): Use
unsigned integer literal when initializing
@@ -8789,7 +8792,7 @@
* tmac/doc.tmac (Bd): Fix code style nit. Perform "strict"
string comparison when using formatted output comparison
- operator to peform matching on macro argument. See
+ operator to perform matching on macro argument. See
subsection/node "Operators in Conditionals" in groff's Texinfo
manual.
@@ -9107,7 +9110,7 @@
2025-04-21 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
- [troff]: Slighty refactor (boolify, rename).
+ [troff]: Slightly refactor (boolify, rename).
* src/roff/troff/node.cpp (class font_info)
(class tfont): Demote return type of `get_bold()` member
@@ -9379,7 +9382,7 @@
* src/roff/troff/input.cpp: Refactor `grostream` class for
memory safety.
- (struct grosteam): Convert from this...
+ (struct grostream): Convert from this...
(class grostream): ...to this, inheriting from class `object` so
that it casts less dangerously thence and thither when stashing
`grostream`s into and retrieving them from `object_dictionary`
@@ -9693,7 +9696,7 @@
invocation of "nroff" command through a shell variable to ensure
that we test the one that has been built, not one in the $PATH.
Most other groff automated tests already work this way. Also
- check for POSIX-non-comforming shell, and skip test if a
+ check for POSIX-non-conforming shell, and skip test if a
conforming one doesn't seem to be present.
2025-03-30 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
@@ -10471,7 +10474,7 @@
* src/roff/troff/node.h (struct node): Add new virtual member
function, `dump_properties()`, to support modular composition of
- node dumping. All nodes have properties, but some dervived
+ node dumping. All nodes have properties, but some derived
classes of `node` have _additional_ properties. Also, we want
to be able to distinguish property reporting from contained-node
reporting, which is where recursion comes in.
@@ -11129,7 +11132,7 @@
2025-01-27 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
* src/roff/troff/env.cpp (environment::choose_breakpoint):
- Reparenthensize (very) complex expression, restoring documented
+ Reparenthesize (very) complex expression, restoring documented
behavior of hyphenation space feature.
Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66723>. Thanks to Dave
@@ -13125,8 +13128,8 @@
didn't).
* man/groff.7.man (Request short reference) <pso>:
- * man/groff_diff.7.man (New requests) <pso>: Recast, strengthing
- parallel with `so` request.
+ * man/groff_diff.7.man (New requests) <pso>: Recast,
+ strengthening parallel with `so` request.
* NEWS: Document `pso` request's new handling of a leading
neutral double quote.
@@ -13306,7 +13309,7 @@
2024-11-12 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
[soelim]: Read argument to `so` request in a more GNU troff-ish
- fashion (and a more AT&T troff-ish fasion, if one considers the
+ fashion (and a more AT&T troff-ish fashion, if one considers the
`ds` and `as` requests). Accept but discard a leading double
quote to permit embedding of leading spaces in the file name,
and accept unescaped literal spaces in argument.
@@ -13789,7 +13792,7 @@
`init_size_table()` and `dump_size_table()` to
`init_size_list()` and `dump_size_list()`.
* src/roff/troff/env.cpp: Update definition, call, and
- derefernce sites in the global scope and...
+ dereference sites in the global scope and...
(font_size::init_size_list, font_size::dump_size_list):
(font_size::font_size, override_sizes, environment::print_env):
...here.
@@ -14358,7 +14361,7 @@
* src/preproc/tbl/table.cpp: Add C preprocessor macro storing
the name of a groff register for saving the state of line
- numering enablement.
+ numbering enablement.
(table::init_output): Save the value of the `.nm` register to
this groff register.
(table::do_bottom): Test the value of that register (instead of
@@ -16231,7 +16234,8 @@
2024-08-25 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
* font/devascii/R.proto: Map `ad` (dieresis accent) special
- charcter as yet another alias of `"` on the ASCII output device.
+ character as yet another alias of `"` on the ASCII output
+ device.
2024-08-23 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
@@ -17633,7 +17637,7 @@
* src/roff/troff/number.cpp (vunits::vunits, hunits::hunits):
Move common subexpression to a temporary variable to prepare for
- reuse in C23 checked artihmetic macros.
+ reuse in C23 checked arithmetic macros.
2024-07-25 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
@@ -17782,7 +17786,7 @@
2024-07-15 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
* src/roff/troff/number.cpp (is_valid_term): Trivially refactor;
- simplify tautologus Boolean expression.
+ simplify tautologous Boolean expression.
2024-07-15 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
@@ -19005,8 +19009,8 @@
`int` to `bool`.
* src/roff/troff/env.h: Do it.
- * src/roff/troff/env.cpp (do_underline): Do it. Rename paramter
- from `underline_spaces` to `want_spaces_underlined`.
+ * src/roff/troff/env.cpp (do_underline): Do it. Rename
+ parameter from `underline_spaces` to `want_spaces_underlined`.
* src/roff/troff/env.h (class environment): Update friend
access.
@@ -19545,7 +19549,7 @@
* font/devps/TBI:
* font/devps/TI:
* font/devps/TR:
- * font/devps/ZCMI: Regenerate with updated aftmtodit.pl.
+ * font/devps/ZCMI: Regenerate with updated afmtodit.pl.
* man/groff_font.5.man: Document use of comment field to hold
UTF-16 code.
@@ -19780,7 +19784,8 @@
macro instead of hand-crafting diagnostic message with `tm`
request.
- * tmac/doc.tmac (Bl): Drop unneccessary argumentless `tm` request.
+ * tmac/doc.tmac (Bl): Drop unnecessary argumentless `tm`
+ request.
(doc-Bl-usage): Use three single-line `doc-report-usage`
requests instead of writing a six-line diagnostic. Both are
regrettable--`Bl` is just crazily complex.
@@ -20281,7 +20286,7 @@
* src/roff/troff/env.cpp: Add support for read-only numeric
registers backed by unsigned integer values. Define new type
- alias `UNSIGNED_FUNCP`. Define new C++ prepreprocessor macro
+ alias `UNSIGNED_FUNCP`. Define new C++ preprocessor macro
`init_unsigned_env_reg`, paralleling `init_int_env_reg`.
(class unsigned_env_reg): Add new class; just like `int_env_reg`
except it's for use with "unsigned int" member variables.
@@ -22223,7 +22228,7 @@
`missing`.
(mount_font_at_position, associate_style_with_font_position):
- Report invalid font mounting position in error diagostic.
+ Report invalid font mounting position in error diagnostic.
(associate_style_with_font_position): Throw warning in category
`missing` if given only one argument.
@@ -22272,7 +22277,7 @@
(init_input_requests): Update call site.
(set_character_flags): Declare as `static`; this function
- doesn't need external visibility. Throw warning diagnositc when
+ doesn't need external visibility. Throw warning diagnostic when
no character arguments are present.
2023-11-27 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
@@ -22888,7 +22893,7 @@
strings.
* src/libs/libgroff/color.cpp: Construct `default_color` with
- empty string instead of leaving uninitalized. Problem appears
+ empty string instead of leaving uninitialized. Problem appears
to date back to commit ea5a42d080, 2002-01-24.
Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64421>. Thanks to Günther
@@ -23648,7 +23653,7 @@
GNU Bison. Drop mention of "COPYING" file, which is not
installed by groff's "install" make(1) target and not sufficient
information to aid users of groff packages prepared by
- distributors (which neverless are legally bound to provide
+ distributors (which nevertheless are legally bound to provide
licensing information via some means, and do so with high
reliability). After almost 35 years, we can have some hope that
people have heard of the GNU GPL and can locate a copy of it
@@ -24766,7 +24771,7 @@
* configure.ac: Correct characterization of the list of macro
packages reported. It is not the list of macro packages
- receiving a "g" prefix, but the list of macro packages reciving
+ receiving a "g" prefix, but the list of macro packages receiving
a wrapper macro file in groff's macro directory, each of which
sources the corresponding system (likely AT&T-descended troff)
macro package. Fixes wording I introduced in commit 4d30dd7424,
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