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<h2>NEWS VERSION 1.19.1
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<a href="webpage-1.html#heading1">License</a><br>
<a href="webpage-2.html#heading2">README</a><br>
<a href="webpage-3.html#heading3">CVS and FTP access</a><br>
<a href="webpage-4.html#heading4">Groff dependencies</a><br>
<a href="webpage-5.html#heading5">Bug reports</a><br>
<a href="webpage-6.html#heading6">Mailing lists</a><br>
<a href="webpage-7.html#heading7">NEWS VERSION 1.21</a><br>
<a href="webpage-8.html#heading8">NEWS VERSION 1.20.1</a><br>
<a href="webpage-9.html#heading9">NEWS VERSION 1.20</a><br>
<a href="webpage-10.html#heading10">NEWS VERSION 1.19.2</a><br>
<a href="webpage-11.html#heading11">NEWS VERSION 1.19.1</a><br>
<a href="webpage-12.html#heading12">NEWS VERSION 1.19</a><br>
<a href="webpage-13.html#heading13">NEWS VERSION 1.18.1</a><br>
<a href="webpage-14.html#heading14">NEWS VERSION 1.18</a><br>
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<p>groff</p><ul>
<p><li>The argument of the command line option
‘−I’ is now also passed to troff and
grops, specifying a directory to search for files on the
command line, files named in ‘so’ and
‘psbb’ requests, and files named in
\X’ps: file’ and
\X’ps: import’ escapes.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em"></li><li>If option
‘−V’ is used more than once, the commands
are both printed on standard error and run. </li></p></ul>
<p>troff</p><ul>
<p><li>Two new read-only, string-valued registers
‘.m’ and ‘.M’ return the name of the
current drawing and background color, respectively.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em"></li><li>New read-only register
‘.U’ which is set to 1 if in safer mode and
set to 0 if in unsafe mode.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em"></li><li>An input encoding file
for latin-5 (a.k.a. ISO 8859-9) has been added. Example
use:</p>
<p style="margin-left:3%; margin-top: 1em"><tt>groff
−Tdvi −mlatin5 my_file > my_file.dvi</tt></p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em">Note that some output devices
don’t support all glyphs of this encoding.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em"></li><li>If the
‘return’ request is called with an argument, it
exits twice, namely the current macro and the macro one
level higher. This is used to define a wrapper macro for
‘return’ in trace.tmac.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em"></li><li>For completeness, two
new requests have been added: ‘dei1’ and
‘ami1’. They are equivalent to ‘dei’
and ‘ami’, respectively, but the macros are
executed with compatibility mode off (similar to
‘de1’ and ‘am1’).</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em"></li><li>New command line option
‘−I’ to specify a directory for files
(both those on the command line and those named in
‘psbb’ requests). This is also handled by the
groff wrapper program.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em"></li><li>Since version 1.19 you
can say ‘.vs 0’. Older versions emit a
warning and convert this to
‘.vs \n[.V]’.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em">This hasn’t been
documented properly. Note that ‘.vs 0’
isn’t saved in a diversion since it doesn’t
result in vertical motion. </li></p></ul>
<p>pic</p><ul>
<p><li>Dashed and dotted ellipses have been implemented.
</li></p> </ul>
<p>tbl</p><ul>
<p><li>New key character ‘x’ to make tbl call a
user-defined macro on a table cell. Patch by
<a href="mailto:hj.oertel@surfeu.de">Heinz-Jürgen Oertel</a>.
</li></p> </ul>
<p>grap2graph</p><ul>
<p><li>A new script contributed by
<a href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">Eric S. Raymond</a>. It
converts a grap diagram into a cropped image. Since it uses
gs and the PNM library, virtually all graphics formats are
available for output. [Note that the grap program itself
isn’t part of the groff package; see the file
MORE.STUFF how to obtain grap.] </li></p></ul>
<p>grohtml</p><ul>
<p><li>New option ‘−j’ to emit output
split into multiple files. </li></p></ul>
<p>grops</p><ul>
<p><li>New command line option ‘−I’ to
specify a directory to search for files on the command line
and files named in \X’ps: import’ and
\X’ps: file’ escapes. This is also handled
by the groff wrapper program.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em"></li><li>The default value for
the ‘broken’ keyword in the DESC file is
now 0. </li></p></ul>
<p>grolj4</p><ul>
<p><li>A new man page ‘lj4_font(5)’ documents
how fonts are accessed with grolj4.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em"></li><li>The built-in fonts for
LJ4 and newer PCL 5 devices have been completely
revised, mainly to access as much glyphs as possible. The
provided metric files should be compatible with recent
PCL 5 printers also. Additionally, font description
files have been added for the Arial and Times New Roman
family, the MS symbol, and Wingdings fonts. </li></p></ul>
<p>afmtodit</p><ul>
<p><li>New option ‘−x’ to prevent use of
built-in Adobe Glyph List. </li></p></ul>
<p>hpftodit</p><ul>
<p><li>Completely revised to handle HP TrueType metric
files also. See the hpftodit manual page for more details.
</li></p> </ul>
<p>groffer</p><ul>
<p><li>This version is a rewrite of groffer in many parts,
but it is kept in the old single script style.</p><ul>
<p><li>New options: −−text
(−−mode text), −−tty-viewer,
−−X (−−mode X),
−−X-viewer, −−html
(−−mode html), −−html-view,
−−apropos-data, −−apropos-devel,
−−apropos-progs.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em"></li><li>New documentation file
README_SH.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em"></li><li>Enhancement of the
configuration files and the ‘apropos’ handling.
</li></p> </ul>
<p></li></p></ul>
<p>macro packages</p><ul>
<p><li>www.tmac: New macro ‘JOBNAME’ to split
output into multiple files.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em"></li><li>In mdoc, multiple calls
to ‘.Lb’ are now supported in the LIBRARY
section. </li></p></ul></td></tr></table><hr>
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