Re: a morsel of groff 1.23.0 status

2023-07-06 Thread Deri
On Thursday, 6 July 2023 02:02:39 BST Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2023, Dave Kemper wrote: > > On 7/5/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > May I be excused some > > > pride in our delivery of over 400 bug fixes and 150 automated tests? > > > > Fully justified. I'm glad it's

Re: a morsel of groff 1.23.0 status

2023-07-06 Thread John Gardner
Bravo to everybody involved!! Seriously, I can't express just how good it feels to see a long-awaited release finally be published to the world. :) On Thu, 6 July 2023, 8:12 am G. Branden Robinson, < g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > At 2023-07-05T23:31:54+0200, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: >

Re: [TUHS] Re: symbols in eqnchar

2023-07-06 Thread Damian McGuckin
Branden, In an earlier lifetime, my very smart colleague Weeks White implemented a fudged version of 'eqn' which interpreted a line .SO file which was NOT between .EQ and .EN. The file was a legal troff input file which normally contained .EQ/.EN blocks (among other things). This f

groff online manuals updated for 1.23.0 release

2023-07-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi folks, I've updated the groff home page. Yesterday, to reflect the release; today, to update the online copies of our Texinfo manual and to add the collected groff man pages. You can have a look at: https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/ The groff home page is managed in CVS; dealing wi

Re: early adopters of groff 1.23.0

2023-07-06 Thread Sam James
"G. Branden Robinson" writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > Hi folks, > > I'm pleased to see that even in the absence of an official announcement > (so far), distributors are getting their hands on the still piping-fresh > groff 1.23.0 release. > > Over the course of the release cycle, I've

Re: early adopters of groff 1.23.0

2023-07-06 Thread Alexis
Hello all, after having tested the RCs on darwin nixpkgs for the past weeks and seeing the message about the 1.23.0 source archive being available I felt the time was right to create a GitHub Pull-Request¹ and update the groff package on NixOS and nixpkgs. Folks reviewing said PR have reported po

Re: a morsel of groff 1.23.0 status

2023-07-06 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi Branden, On mer., juil. 05 2023 at 05:11:37 , "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: [...] > If what I'm using as a template in the ANNOUNCE file[A] doesn't fit what > you want to say, then I'd suggest adding the following, though I don't > insist on either of them. Ah, I've completely forgotten your

Groff version 1.23.0

2023-07-06 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
We are pleased to announce the availability of groff 1.23.0. What is groff? == groff (GNU roff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text input files that include formatting commands to produce output in PostScript, PDF, HTML, or DVI formats or for display to a terminal. Formatti

unrecognized X command 'sgr 0' ignored (was: early adopters of groff 1.23.0)

2023-07-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[looping in Colin Watson for man-db test suite advice] Hi Alexis, At 2023-07-06T23:34:20+0200, Alexis wrote: > after having tested the RCs on darwin nixpkgs for the past weeks > and seeing the message about the 1.23.0 source archive being available > I felt the time was right to create a GitHub P

Re: a morsel of groff 1.23.0 status

2023-07-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Bertrand, At 2023-07-07T00:31:57+0200, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > Ah, I've completely forgotten your ANNOUNCE file... If it helps, I'm attaching a copy of what I used to announce the release to the Debian bug tracking system. > The ANNOUNCE file fits perfectly well to the job, so I'll use i

Re: a morsel of groff 1.23.0 status

2023-07-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[remembering the attachment his time] We are pleased to announce the availability of groff 1.23.0. Obtain it from the GNU mirror network, https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/groff/groff-1.23.0.tar.gz or, if the network is for some reason inoperative, directly from GNU. https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/g