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[groff] 07/11: NEWS: Add item about man(7)'s `IP`.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 07/11: NEWS: Add item about man(7)'s `IP`.
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:28:28 -0500 (EST)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit dddd38ad078688b8f633f4f5c6c78ef5efe0125b
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Jan 30 02:57:15 2024 -0600

    NEWS: Add item about man(7)'s `IP`.
    
    Specifically, about its loss of respect for tag separation.
---
 NEWS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c04787fdd..9b4e1d323 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -136,6 +136,12 @@ o The an (man) macro package now supports a `TS` register 
to configure
   exceeds the paragraph indentation, the line is broken after the tag.)
   This parameter, formerly hard-coded as `1n`, now defaults to `2n`.
 
+o The an (man) macro package's `IP` macro no longer honors the formerly
+  hard-coded 1n tag separation noted in the previous item.  This means
+  that the first argument to the `IP` macro can abut the text of the
+  paragraph with no intervening space.  If you use a word instead of
+  punctuation for `IP`'s first argument, consider 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



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