gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
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commit 6345adb60090c9c005310cc2eea968dacc4c104e
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Jul 18 08:25:22 2026 -0500
NEWS: Revise and update items.
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NEWS | 13 ++++++++++---
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1fc9d9a5d..883d35ca6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ pic
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* groff's pic(1) manual, "Making Pictures With GNU PIC", is now built
- and installed as a PDF rather than a PostScript document.
+ and installed as a PDF rather than a PostScript document. Thanks to
+ Deri James.
Macro packages
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@@ -170,19 +171,25 @@ Macro packages
enable and support PDF features in any ms document without requiring
its author to update its content.
+ We welcome feedback on these extensions to the package's macro
+ interface. We expect to finalize these changes in a future release,
+ and effectively default `PDFFEAT` "on". Thanks to Deri James.
+
* The s (ms) macro package now supports the use of automatically
numbered footnote marks (interpolated via `\**` or `\*[*]`) in tbl(1)
table entries. Other implementation of ms do not. Thanks to Deri
James.
* groff's ms(7) manual, "Using groff with the ms macros", is now built
- and installed as a PDF rather than a PostScript document.
+ and installed as a PDF rather than a PostScript document. Thanks to
+ Deri James.
Miscellaneous
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-* The new document "Groff-PDF-Features.pdf" surveys the PDF features
+* The new document "groff-pdf-features.pdf" surveys the PDF features
that groff enables and exposes in its full-service macro packages.
+ Thanks to Deri James.
* The grn command now exits with status 2 instead of 8 on usage errors
arising from missing arguments to command-line options. It now exits
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