gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 0a50df4283daa2a812ea3e9dbee812ee7153efb3
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Oct 13 14:34:23 2026 -0500
NEWS: Clarify some pending 1.25.0 items.
---
NEWS | 19 ++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 649666b13..a83e6cd1e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ troff
between their arguments. While consistent with GNU troff input
syntax, said enforcement is not consistent with AT&T troff. We did
not add support in groff's AT&T troff compatibility mode because
- we're aware of no legacy documents that require it. Example:
- `.wh9i+.5+\n(xxuPT`, while it validly plants a trap calling the `PT`
- macro in AT&T troff, is an input considerably more cryptic than any
+ we're aware of no legacy documents that require it. Example: the
+ input `.wh9i+.5+\n(xxuPT`, while it validly plants a trap calling the
+ `PT` macro in AT&T troff, is considerably more cryptic than any
specimens known to us.
* The formatter now enables the "delim", "syntax", and "escape" warning
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ troff
greater than decimal 127.
* A new read-only register `.ul` reports the count of productive input
- lines remaining to be be underlined in the environment (as configured
+ lines remaining to be underlined in the environment (as configured
by either the `cu` or `ul` requests).
* The formatter supports a new warning category, "style". It is used
@@ -133,10 +133,11 @@ Macro packages
macros, to manage list "compactness" and item indentation with
existing man(7) package facilities, or to employ both approaches.
-* The an (man) package now checks for certain portability problems to
- AT&T troff's man(7) if the `CHECKSTYLE` register, introduced in groff
- 1.23.0 and documented in 1.24.0, is given a value of 100 or greater.
- This feature is experimental and subject to change.
+* The an (man) package now checks for some problems of document
+ portability to AT&T troff's man(7) if the `CHECKSTYLE` register,
+ introduced in groff 1.23.0 and documented in 1.24.0, is given a value
+ of 100 or greater. This feature is experimental and subject to
+ change.
* The m (mm) macro package's `IA` and `WA` macros--used only with the
"letter" document type configured by calling the `LT` macro--no
@@ -176,7 +177,7 @@ Macro packages
the document and format text that hyperlinks to it, respectively.
These changes were inspired by Keith Marshall's "spdf.tmac" which was
- withdrawn from groff in 1.24.0, but continues to be developed at:
+ withdrawn from groff as of 1.24.0, but continues to be developed at:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/groff-pdfmark/
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