gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
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commit c7812d8ad4ef82b289cb1c5133995bd2eb316f3e
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Sep 26 21:19:18 2024 -0500
NEWS: Clarify items.
Relocate one about `pnr` to rest amid the new debugging requests.
---
NEWS | 36 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 35b8de994..5820a8a55 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -56,9 +56,6 @@ troff
and abort evaluation of the expression, the formatter now emits a
warning diagnostic in the "range" category.
-* The `pnr` request now additionally reports the interpolation format
- of each register (if it is not string-valued).
-
* The formatter no longer reports warnings in the "el" category. There
was only one; it threw a warning diagnostic if enabled (which it was
not by default) if it inferred an imbalance between `ie` and `el`
@@ -73,10 +70,10 @@ troff
inches (or the unit configured with the `warnscale` request) to
describe the vertical drawing position where the problem occurred.
-* The device-independent page description now reports unbreakable
- spaces (those produced with the `\~` escape sequence) as word breaks
- with the documentary 'w' command, just as it does for regular
- breakable spaces.
+* The device-independent page description language produced by GNU
+ troff now reports unbreakable spaces (those produced with the `\~`
+ escape sequence) as word breaks with the documentary 'w' command,
+ just as it does for regular breakable spaces.
* A new request, `hydefault`, and read-only register, `.hydefault`,
manage the default automatic hyphenation mode of an environment.
@@ -96,7 +93,7 @@ troff
this release, the foregoing input now works as desired.
* A new read-only, string-valued register, `.trap`, interpolates the
- name of the next vertical position trap after the drawing position.
+ name of the next page location trap after the drawing position.
* New registers `.it`, `.itc`, and `.itm` are available. These
read-only (and, in the case of `.itm`, string-valued) registers
@@ -124,6 +121,9 @@ troff
of output nodes (an internal data structure) corresponding to the
pending output line. The list is empty if no such nodes exist.
+* The `pnr` request now additionally reports the interpolation format
+ of each register (if it is not string-valued).
+
* A new request, `pstream`, reports to the standard error stream the
name of each stream opened with the `open` or `opena` requests, the
name of the file backing it, and its mode (writing or appending).
@@ -184,14 +184,14 @@ Macro packages
report problems with attempts to use nonexistent font names. We
recommend addressing such portability issues wherever suits you: (1)
in a document, perhaps by using `ie` and `el` requests and the `.g`
- register to test for groff extensions, then `ie` and `el` again with
- the `F` groff conditional expression operator to check for font
- availability, and performing font remappings with the groff `ftr`
- request as desired; (2) doing so in your "troffrc" file; or (3) by
- modifying these macro files similarly. Users of the "dvi" and "lbp"
- output devices should be aware that these devices don't supply full
- families of monospaced fonts (and never have). See grodvi(1) and
- grolbp(1).
+ register to test whether the formatter claims support for groff
+ extensions, then `ie` and `el` again with the `F` groff conditional
+ expression operator to check for font availability, and performing
+ font remappings with the groff `ftr` request as desired; (2) doing so
+ in your "troffrc" file; or (3) by modifying these macro files
+ similarly. Users of the "dvi" and "lbp" output devices should be
+ aware that these devices don't supply full families of monospaced
+ fonts (and never have). See grodvi(1) and grolbp(1).
* Hyperlink support is now enabled by default on PDF and terminal
devices for an (man) and doc (mdoc) documents. Instructions and
@@ -223,8 +223,8 @@ Macro packages
replaces the fixed-width space that is appended to the synopsis
keyword in `SY`'s single-argument form, and is used in computation of
the indentation of non-initial synopsis lines. However, this
- computed indentation can now also be overridden, and the indentation
- of a previous syopsis item reused. To do this, give any argument to
+ computed indentation can now also be overridden with that of the
+ previous syopsis item. To do this, give any argument to
the `YS` macro call "closing" the synopsis whose indentation you want
to reuse. When you're done with such a grouped synopsis, leave the
argument off the final `YS` call.
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