Re: removing the .IX macro from the ms package in 1.23 breaks old documents

2024-10-02 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[follow-ups set to groff@gnu, a discussion list] Hi Joerg, At 2024-10-02T18:12:06+0200, joerg van den hoff wrote: > I was not aware of this change (not following groff development > closely) and it took me quite a bit of time today to find the root > course of why some newly compiled old document

removing the .IX macro from the ms package in 1.23 breaks old documents

2024-10-02 Thread joerg van den hoff
I was not aware of this change (not following groff development closely) and it took me quite a bit of time today to find the root course of why some newly compiled old documents of mine do not contain an index any more. the reasoning in the release notes "This undocumented 4.2BSD ms extension

Re: removing the .IX macro from the ms package in 1.23 breaks old documents

2024-10-02 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-10-02T13:29:28-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [follow-ups set to groff@gnu, a discussion list] One point I forgot to mention... > At 2024-10-02T18:12:06+0200, joerg van den hoff wrote: > > I was not aware of this change (not following groff development > > closely) and it took me quit