Re: Regressions in UTP document (was: removing the .IX macro from the ms package in 1.23 breaks old documents)

2024-10-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up] At 2024-10-03T20:53:05-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2024-10-04T01:17:53+0100, Deri wrote: > > > > Various problems occur using current git groff, from extra blank > > > > pages, text which was set as mono spaced appearing as > > > > Times-Roman, pdf bookmarks jumping to t

Re: Regressions in UTP document (was: removing the .IX macro from the ms package in 1.23 breaks old documents)

2024-10-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up] At 2024-10-03T20:53:05-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > The switch to Times-Roman from the requested mono-spaced font is down > > to commit 1d8452fb2ae3afd9bb8cb8a7f7f31741d41e85da. > > I'll need to see what the document is asking for, then (I confess I > haven't paid attenti

Regressions in UTP document (was: removing the .IX macro from the ms package in 1.23 breaks old documents)

2024-10-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Deri, At 2024-10-04T01:17:53+0100, Deri wrote: > On Thursday, 3 October 2024 22:18:23 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2024-10-03T20:58:34+0100, Deri wrote: > > > An example is the utp document which a lot of people on this list > > > put together. Neither the original 1.0, producing posts

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

2024-10-03 Thread Deri
On Thursday, 3 October 2024 22:18:23 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2024-10-03T20:58:34+0100, Deri wrote: > > An example is the utp document which a lot of people on this list put > > together. Neither the original 1.0, producing postscript, nor 1.1, > > producing a pdf, now build properly, fr

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

2024-10-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-10-03T23:06:18+0200, joerg van den hoff wrote: > table of content when using ms macros (wide entries failing to line > break and "pushing" the page number out of line to the right instead). > I cannot say, however, whether this is a 1.23-related issue or whether > it just has escaped my att

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

2024-10-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-10-03T20:58:34+0100, Deri wrote: > I agree stagnation is not good, but it is undesirable if changes break > existing documents. Yes, if something breaks/alters the rendering of an existing document, it is best if that alteration is offset by a more valuable benefit. Admittedly, I see pro

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

2024-10-03 Thread joerg van den hoff
On 03.10.24 21:58, Deri wrote: On Wednesday, 2 October 2024 19:29:26 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: To accept such a restriction is to surrender groff to stagnation. While I am aware of at least one person for whom that situation is a preference, I claim that the same can be achieved by neve

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

2024-10-03 Thread Deri
On Wednesday, 2 October 2024 19:29:26 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: > To accept such a restriction is to surrender groff to stagnation. While > I am aware of at least one person for whom that situation is a > preference, I claim that the same can be achieved by never upgrading > groff from the ve

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

2024-10-03 Thread joerg van den hoff
On 02.10.24 20:29, G. Branden Robinson wrote: [follow-ups set to groff@gnu, a discussion list] Hi Joerg, hi branden, thanks for bothering to reply so thoroughly. I have interspersed a few comments below but up front just this: I principally regard changes breaking backward compatibility i