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commit 14a2f22d172767bddc70053075da9fd9f232916d
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Sep 14 13:26:39 2024 -0500
NEWS: Recast old item to avoid Ericsson English.
Den här Bud är till dig, Doug. Bork bork bork!
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2024-09/msg00040.html
Also fix item to use "Boolean" as an adjective, not a noun.
Also further comment an example.
Also clarify other old items.
And fix another to favor active voice over passive.
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NEWS | 29 ++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ad48ba133..ce82dee69 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ o The `mso` request no longer attempts to open a macro file
named, say,
`mso` is itself a groff extension), consider the following.
.\" Load the ms package, whatever it might be named.
- .msoquiet s.tmac
+ .msoquiet s.tmac \" If file present, defines `LP` macro.
.if !d LP .msoquiet tmac.s
o GNU troff no longer accepts nonpositive page lengths. Attempting to
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ o A new request, `hydefault`, and read-only register,
`.hydefault`,
this release, the foregoing input now works as desired.
o A new read-only, string-valued register, `.trap`, interpolates the
- name of the next vertical position trap that will be sprung.
+ name of the next vertical position trap after the drawing position.
o New registers `.it`, `.itc`, and `.itm` are available. These
read-only (and, in the case of `.itm`, string-valued) registers report
@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ o A new request, `pline`, reports to the standard error
stream the list
of output nodes (an internal data structure) corresponding to
the pending output line. The list is empty if no such nodes exist.
-o The `pnr` request now accepts arguments; each is treated as
- identifying a register, and its properties reported to the standard
+o The `pnr` request now accepts arguments. It treats each as
+ identifying a register and reports its properties to the standard
error stream.
o The `hla` request, when invoked with no arguments, now clears the
@@ -290,10 +290,10 @@ o The behavior of the an (man) package's `SY` and `YS`
macros has been
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 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
+ to 80n. The latter is a vastly more common device configuration, but
+ that 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
setting the `LL` register on {g,n,t}roff's command line.
@@ -423,11 +423,11 @@ o The m (mm) macro package now supports a user-definable
hook macro
normal operation. Applications include customization of letterhead.
o The m (mm) macro package's `LI` macro now interprets its second
- argument as a Boolean indicating whether a space should separate the
- list item mark from its prefix (the first argument). Thus, where you
- formerly specified "2" to indicate no such separation, you would now
- use "0", matching the semantics of the former `Limsp` register. "2"
- continues to be recognized and handled as before, but prompts a
+ argument as a Boolean value indicating whether a space should separate
+ the list item mark from its prefix (the first argument). Thus, where
+ you formerly specified "2" to indicate no such separation, you would
+ now use "0", matching the semantics of the former `Limsp` register.
+ "2" continues to be recognized and handled as before, but prompts a
warning; migrate your documents.
o The m (mm) macro package now supports the `E` register as DWB mm did.
@@ -531,8 +531,7 @@ o The `troffrc` file now loads an English localization file
instead of
o A new read-only register `.cp` is implemented. Within a `do` request,
"\n[.cp]" holds the saved value of compatibility mode. See
- groff_diff(7) or the groff Texinfo manual for rationale, use case, and
- example.
+ groff_diff(7) or the groff Texinfo manual for rationale and example.
o New read-only registers `.nm` and `.nn` are implemented. `.nm` is of
Boolean sense, reporting the enablement status of output line
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