Follow-up Comment #7, bug #66673 (group groff): Thanks, Dave.
Here's a word diff of what I have pending.
commit f8e5286f8b72a46919c9c7f7672a31976326c6e5
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jan 18 23:33:02 2025 -0600
NEWS: Revise item content.
Thanks to Dave Kemper for noting how the newly space-enabled formatter
request discussion could be improved.
Drop extraneous word.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index feecd0f35..621a76397 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -15,16 +15,17 @@ Noteworthy incompatible changes
* If your roff(7) documents follow any of the requests `cf`, `hpf`,
`hpfa`, `mso`, `msoquiet`, `nx`, `open`, `opena`, `so`, `soquiet`, or
`trf` with a comment after their file name argument, and did not place
that comment immediately after the[-end of the-] file name, you are likely
to get a
diagnostic message.
warning: cannot open macro file 'e.tmac ': No such file or directory
{+Or, less likely, the formatter will open the wrong file, one with+}
{+ spaces at the end of its name.+} That is because these requests are now
able to process file names containing space characters. (This change
also makes the request syntax consistent with that of `ds`, `as`, and
others.) A quick fix is to place the comment escape sequence as early
as possible. For example, we would change:
.mso e.tmac \" Load Eric Allman's package.
@@ -634,13 +635,13 @@ Output drivers
.hcode \[s ,]s
* The PostScript output driver grops(1) once again accepts a file name
containing slashes[-them-] as a document prolog or resource (such as a
font
to be downloaded into the document). This is a restoration of groff
1.22.4 and earlier behavior; groff's 1.23.0 change of not accepting a
file name containing slashes as an encoding or font description files
remains in place. (We impose this restriction because the output
driver interprets the contents of these files; it does not interpret
the PostScript prolog or resource files.)
* gropdf(1), the PDF output driver, now allows embedding of JFIF/JPEG
and JPEG 2000 image file formats. If PerlMagick is installed, many
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