On Thu Nov 14, 2024 at 11:12 PM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-11-14T21:15:32+0100, onf wrote:
> > eqn
> > ---
> > 
> > *  The "gifont" primitive replaces "gfont" as the means of configuring
> >    the global italic face in preprocessed equations.  "gfont" remains
> >    recognized as a synonym for backward compatibility.  The new name is
> >    intended to ease acquisition of the eqn language in light of GNU
> >    eqn's thirty-year-old extensions "gbfont" and "grfont".
> > 
> > A breaking change that should definitely be included.
>
> Breaking?  I hope not!  The item does say:
>
> >> "gfont" remains recognized as a synonym for backward compatibility.
>
> There _are_ backward-incompatible changes in groff 1.24.0--which I
> generally float to the top of the relevant section of the "NEWS"
> file--but this is not one of them.

Ugh, sorry. Guess I can't read again.

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