VERSION 1.22.3
==============
Gxditview
---------
o X11 resources for `gxditview', which were previously installed in
/usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults no matter which `prefix' was set, are
now installed in appresdir=$prefix/lib/X11/app-defaults. If
`appresdir' is not a standard X11 resource directory, the environment
variable XFILESEARCHPATH should be set to this path. The standard
default directories depends on the system `libXt'. Common directories
include:
/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults
/etc/X11/app-defaults
Note that if the option `--with-appresdir' is passed to `configure',
the `prefix' will not be added to `appresdir'.
Glilypond
---------
o This new preprocessor (contributed by Bernd Warken) allows embedding of
code for GNU LilyPond (http://www.lilypond.org), a music typesetter. The
data gets automatically processed and embedded as EPS images.
Gperl
-----
o Bernd Warken contributed a new preprocessor to handle Perl code that can
be evaluated and then processed by groff.
Gpinyin
-------
o Another preprocessor from Bernd Warken to pretty-print Pinyin syllables
like `guo2wang2' as `guówáng'.
Pdfroff
-------
o The pdfroff utility script now activates its `--no-toc-relocation' option
by default, unless a request similar to:
.if !\n[PHASE] .tm pdfroff-option:set toc_relocation=enabled
is invoked during input file processing; (`.if !\n[PHASE] ...' ensures
that the effect of the `.tm' request is restricted to the document setup
phase of processing, as pdfroff sets it to 1 or 2 in the output phase,
but leaves it unset in the setup phase).
The bundled `spdf.tmac' macro package, which implicitly activates
`-mpdfmark' for `ms' macro users, ensures that TOC relocation is
appropriately enabled, when the `.TC' macro is invoked.
Macro Packages
--------------
o The -mom macro package now has full support for eqn, pic, and tbl, as well
as captioning and labelling of pdf images and preprocessor output. Lists
of Figures, Equations, and Tables can now be autogenerated. PDF_IMAGE has
a new FRAME option.
o A French introduction to the -me macro package has been added (file
`meintro_fr.me').
o In -mdoc, command %C is now available, providing a city or place
reference.
VERSION 1.22.2
==============
Tbl
---
o The character `#' can now be used as an eqn delimiter within tables.
Eqn
---
o A GNU extension
delim on
has been added to reactivate delimiters which have been disabled with
`delim off'.
VERSION 1.22.1
==============
(There was no release 1.22.)
Groff
-----
o A new option `-j' has been added to call the `chem' preprocessor.
Tbl
---
o Improved line numbering support.
Macro Packages
--------------
o Support for the `refer' preprocessor has been added to the -mm macro
package.
o In -me, the `TH' macro was changed for compatibility with line number
support in tables.
`bl' now works inside of blocks.
The behaviour of centered blocks has been improved.
Line numbering support has been improved.
o The -mom macro package has reached version 2.0, focusing on PDF output
with gropdf (using the new `pdfmom' wrapper script). See the file
`version-2.html' of the -mom documentation for a list of the many changes.
o Some generic Unicode fallback characters (mainly Roman numerals) have been
added.
Gropdf
------
o A new driver for generating PDF output directly, contributed by Deri James
<deri@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk>. Note that this driver is written in Perl,
thus you need a working Perl installation to run this output device.
Pdfmom
------
o A new wrapper around groff that facilitates the production of PDF
documents from files formatted with the -mom macros.
VERSION 1.21
============
Troff
-----
o The new `lsm' request specifies a macro to be invoked when leading spaces
in an input line are encountered (which are removed then). Number
registers `lsn' and `lss' hold the number of removed leading spaces and
the corresponding horizontal space, respectively.
o There is a new warning category `file', enabled by default. The `mso'
request emits warnings in this category when the requested macro file does
not exist.
o The new `class' request assigns a short name to a set of characters
which can be referred to in the `cflags' request. This is especially
useful to control line-breaking and hyphenation rules in CJK languages.
o Three new values for the `cflags' request have been added, which are
needed for proper CJK support.
128 prohibit before but allow break after character
256 prohibit after but allow break before character
512 allow break before and after character
Tbl
---
o A new global option `nowarn' suppresses warnings if tables are longer than
the current line width.
Afmtodit
--------
o New option `-o' to specify the name of the output file.
Macro Packages
--------------
o A new macro `%U' has been added to the mdoc package to indicate a URL
reference within an .Rs/.Re environment.
o Rudimentary support for the Japanese script has been added, most suitable
for man page handling as output by grotty. The file `ja.tmac' contains
the necessary setup to allow line breaks before and after CJK characters
(with proper exceptions). Note, however, that no inter-character spacing
is implemented yet -- this usually causes many warnings about bad line
breaks.
Do it for all packages that
* mention perl, or
* have a directory name starting with p5-*, or
* depend on a package starting with p5-
like last time, for 5.18, where this didn't lead to complaints.
Let me know if you have any this time.
a) refer 'perl' in their Makefile, or
b) have a directory name of p5-*, or
c) have any dependency on any p5-* package
Like last time, where this caused no complaints.
On SunOS, gcc 4.6 and later enable c99 and XPG6 features for c++, but
the configure check for iconv uses plain c and gets a pre-XPG6 prototype
for iconv(). This inconsistency then leads to failure when building
preconv.
VERSION 1.20.1
==============
A packaging error made it necessary to publish this release. No
user-visible changes.
VERSION 1.20
============
Groff
-----
o XHTML support has been added to grohtml and can be specified by
-Txhtml. This option also utilizes the MathML capability of
eqn and combines the outputs of both in the final XHTML file.
Users can also specify the `-P-V' option together with `-Txhtml'
in groff. This has the effect of creating an XHTML validator
button at the bottom of each page.
o Some options have been added to control a new preprocessor,
`preconv' (see below): `-k' activates it, `-K' sets the input
encoding, and `-D' sets the default encoding.
o A new environment variable `GROFF_ENCODING' sets the encoding
of input files; it implies command option `-k'.
Troff
-----
o Two new requests `device' and `devicem' have been added which are
equivalents to the \X and \Y escapes, respectively.
o A new read-only number register `.br' is available which is set to 1
if a macro is called as .foo and to 0 if called as 'foo. This allows to
reliably modify requests.
.als bp@orig bp
.de bp
. tm before bp
. ie \\n[.br] .bp@orig
. el 'bp@orig
. tm after bp
..
o A new request `fzoom' has been added to adjust the optical size of a
font in relation to the others. The zoom factor is given in integer
multiples of 1/1000th. In the following example, the CR font is
magnified by 10% (the zoom factor is 1.1).
.fam P
.fzoom CR 1100
.ps 12
Palatino and \f[CR]Courier\f[]
The new number register `.zoom' holds the zoom value of the current font,
in multiples of 1/1000th.
o The `cflags' request has been extended with a new flag value 64, to be
used in combination with values 2 (break before character) and 4 (break
after character). If set, the hyphenation codes of the surrounding
characters are ignored.
o A new debugging request, `pev', has been added to print all of the current
known environments to stderr. It first prints the state of the current
environment, then iterates through all of the known environments, printing
each except the one that is current.
o A new escape `\$^' has been added. It represents the parameters of a
macro as if they were an argument to the `ds' request. This is used by
`trace.tmac'.
o A new read-only number register `.O' is available which returns the
current suppression level as set by the `\O' escape.
o The space width emitted by the `\|' and `\^' escape sequences can be
controlled on a per-font basis. If there is a glyph named `\|' or `\^',
respectively (note the leading backslash), defined in the current font
file, use this glyph's width instead of the default value.
This behaviour is not new, but hasn't been documented before.
Nroff
-----
o Two new command line options `-w' and `-W' are accepted and passed to
groff to enable and disable warning messages, respectively.
Preconv
-------
o This is a new preprocessor to convert various input encodings to something
groff understands (this is, ASCII and \[uXXXX] entities, with `XXXX' a
hexadecimal number with 4 to 6 digits, representing a Unicode input code).
Normally, preconv should be invoked with options `-k' and `-K' of groff.
See the preconv man page for details.
Pic
---
o int(x) now really behaves as documented: It truncates the non-integer part
of x, this is, it rounds towards zero and not towards the next integer
less than or equal to x.
o Pic now supports up to 32 macro arguments (and up to 16 on EBCDIC
platforms).
o Heinz-J
`yslanted', which can change the shape of boxes into arbitrary
parallelograms.
Tbl
---
o Latest versions of DWB tbl introduced an `x' column specifier for a single
column expanded to the line width. GNU tbl has now been extended to
support even multiple `x' specifiers within a table.
o To avoid collision with the new `x' specifier, a block formatting macro
must now be selected with specifier letter `m'.
Eqn
---
o Eric S. Raymond has added a new device type to eqn, MathML. When
-TMathML is enabled, eqn now emits MathML formula markup rather than
groff commands. The new groff -Txhtml device uses this.
Chem
----
o The preprocessor `chem' was added. `chem' is a roff language to generate
chemical structure diagrams. It generates `pic' output.
Grops
-----
o The PS font definition files have been regenerated with newer AFM versions
from Adobe's 35 core fonts as present in most Level 2 PS printers. The
changes are minor (most notably, the addition of the `Euro' glyph and an
extended set of kerning values).
For backwards compatibility, the old set of font definition files is still
available; for details please read the man page of grops.
Grotty
------
o \D'p...' is now supported if the polygon consists entirely of horizontal
and vertical lines.
Grohtml
-------
o XHTML support has been added.
o New command line option `-V' (to be used in XHTML mode) to produce an
XHTML validator button.
o New command line option `-y' to produce a right-justified groff signature
at the end of the document (in combination with option `-V').
Gxditview
---------
o Support for keyboard navigation has been improved.
o Similar to other X11 applications, there are now two resource files,
`GXditview' and `GXditview-color'.
Groffer
-------
o `groffer' version 1.* exists now in a shell and a Perl version.
Afmtodit
--------
o New option `-c' to output more font information as comments.
o New option `-k' to suppress output of kerning data.
o New option `-f NAME' to set the internal name of the groff font.
Macro Packages
--------------
o Joachim Walsdorff contributed the `hdtbl' package for the generation of
tables, using a syntax very similar to the HTML table model. For
example, a table with two cells and two rows looks like this:
.TBL cols=2
. TR .TD 1*1 .TD 1*2
. TR .TD 2*1 .TD 2*2
.ETB
Here the same table using a more expanded syntax:
.TBL cols=2
. TR
. TD 1*1
. TD 1*2
. TR
. TD 2*1
. TD 2*2
.ETB
Tables can be nested; `hdtbl' works without a preprocessor so that the
full capability of groff's macro engine is available.
This package currently works with `-Tps' only.
o -mandoc now supports multiple man pages (in either man or mdoc format).
o Fabrice M
possible to get French localization of the main macro packages (-ms, -mm,
-me, and -mom, but not -man and -mdoc which are localized differently) by
appending `-mfr' to the list of macro packages. Example:
groff -ms -mfr foo > foo.ps
Note that latin-9 input encoding is used for French (to support the `oe'
ligature).
o Swedish macro localization (with `-msv') has been added.
o German macro localization (with `-mde' and `-mden' for traditional and
new orthography, respectively) has been added.
o Czech macro localization (with `-mcs') has been added.
Note that latin-2 input encoding is used for Czech.
o A new macro `Dx' has been added to the mdoc package which identifies the
DragonFly OS.
o If mdoc is used to print multiple man pages (together with the -rcR=0
command line option), each man page now starts a new page.
o -mtrace has been considerably improved, now showing number and string
register assignments, among other things. See the groff_trace man page
for details.
o The PSPIC macro now works with all devices (producing a hollow
rectangle on devices which don't support inclusion of PS images) and
is loaded in troffrc at start-up.
o A new auxiliary macro package `62bit' has been added which provides some
macros for adding, multiplying, and dividing signed 62bit integers (mainly
to handle normal groff number operations without risking overflow errors).
o For -ms, Eric S. Raymond contributed support for ancient Bell Labs
localisms `.SC', `.UC', `.P1', and `.P2'. The latter three are enabled
only after .SC is called.
o A new string, `SN-STYLE', has been added to the ms macros, controlling
the formatting of section numbers in headings defined by `.NH'.
o The new macro package `ptx' provides a template definition for the `.xx'
macro as needed by GNU ptx (for creating permuted indices).
When turning it off, you can get rid of the netpbm, psutils,
and ghostscript dependencies. Might help in bootstrapping some
platforms. Based on a patch from schmonz@.
While here, improve PLIST by trying to remove an additional directory
and bump PKGREVISION for that.
