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[groff] 09/48: NEWS: Clarify items.
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G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
[groff] 09/48: NEWS: Clarify items. |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Apr 2024 23:06:16 -0400 (EDT) |
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 5fa6c4d7580ecbb7e9e66404a88d1a0410271b7b
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Fri Apr 26 01:41:44 2024 -0500
NEWS: Clarify items.
---
NEWS | 24 ++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 317af1578..cb9cedf22 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -133,10 +133,10 @@ o The device-specific macro files loaded by "troffrc"
automatically on
families of monospaced fonts (and never have). See grodvi(1) and
grolbp(1).
-o Hyperlink support is now enabled by default on non-HTML devices that
- support it (PDF and terminal devices) for an (man) and doc (mdoc)
- documents. Instructions and commented code for disabling it are in
- the "man.local" and "mdoc.local" files.
+o Hyperlink support is now enabled by default on PDF and terminal
+ devices for an (man) and doc (mdoc) documents. Instructions and
+ commented code for disabling it are in the "man.local" and
+ "mdoc.local" files.
o The an (man) package now supports use of its hyperlink macros (`UR`,
`UE`, `MT`, and `ME`) as paragraph tags (that is, on the next line
@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@ o The an (man) package now supports use of its hyperlink
macros (`UR`,
o The an (man), doc (mdoc), and doc-old (mdoc-old) macro packages have
changed the default line length when formatting on terminals from 78n
to 80n. The latter is a vastly more common configuration, but that
- line length had been avoided for decades (perhaps as long as as groff
- has existed), for an undocumented reason. That reason appears to have
+ line length had been avoided for decades (perhaps as long as groff has
+ existed), for an undocumented reason. That reason appears to have
been the interaction of bugs in GNU tbl(1) with an aspect of
grotty(1)'s design. Those bugs have been resolved. A man(1) program
can still instruct groff to format for any desired line length by
@@ -180,12 +180,12 @@ o The an (man) macro package's `IP` macro no longer
honors the formerly
migrating to `TP`.
o The an (man) and doc (mdoc) macro packages now use slightly different
- vertical margins when formatting for typesetters, 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. When formatting for terminals with continuous
- rendering disabled (by default, it is enabled), the page footer now
- sets 1 line higher than before.
+ 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 doc (mdoc) macro package's `Mt` macro now sets its argument in
roman, not italics (or whatever the string `doc-Pa-font` was
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