Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?

On Mon 02 Apr 2018 12:14:03 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Good afternoon Bernhard, > > > > So pdfpic is an extension of pspic. By that you can now even replace > > > all PSPIC by PDFPIC, nothing gets lost by that. > > > > I read this as suggesting that results with -Tps and -Tpdf should be > >

Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?

> I don't have a specific name suggestion, and I'm aware that > this is a bikeshed, but can I suggest a more explicit variable > name? Otherwise the next time some old behaviour needs to be > switchably deprecated we're in for some confusion. Maybe a descriptive name, for example

Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 03:57:19PM +0100, Deri James wrote: > To avoid making existing documents render incorrectly I propose to allow the > existing behaviour to be selected. Adding this to the NEWS file:- > > > PDFPIC

Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?

On Tue 10 Apr 2018 19:26:57 Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > I don't have a specific name suggestion, and I'm aware that > > this is a bikeshed, but can I suggest a more explicit variable > > name? Otherwise the next time some old behaviour needs to be > > switchably deprecated we're in for some

Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?

Hi Deri, I agree that altering the default to obtain the old `faulty' behaviour is a good idea. > A) Add the line ".nr PDFPIC_LEGACY 1" to the document before the first > call to .PDFPIC. > > B) If it is just a single document which exhibits this behaviour you > can run groff adding

Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018, Deri James wrote: > > PDFPIC has now been corrected, so the behaviour is the same whether you use > the postscript or pdf drivers. However, this means that any documents which > were written using

Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?

[See at end ... ] On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 18:05 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 03:57:19PM +0100, Deri James wrote: > > To avoid making existing documents render incorrectly I propose to allow > > the > > existing behaviour to be selected. Adding this to the NEWS file:- > > >

Re: [groff] Re: Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc2

Hi Axel, Sorry for my late answer, On Fri, Mar 30 2018 at 10:19:24 AM, Axel Kielhorn wrote: > The texinfo still says: > > @titlepage > @title groff > @subtitle The GNU implementation of @code{troff} > @subtitle Edition 1.22.3 > @subtitle Autumn 2014 Yeah, I'll change the