I took an editorial pass over the NEWS file in anticipation of release. * Bump copyright range end year. * "PDFPIC has now been corrected" -> "PDFPIC has been corrected" * Remove unnecessary comma. * "0behavior:-" -> "behaviour:" * Remove space between option dash and "rPDFPIC_NOSPACE=1". * Replace comma with em-dash for break in prose. * Add verbs to descriptions of gropdf changes. * Hyphenate adjective phrase "backward-compatible". * Pull parenthetical cross references inside sentences and do not capitalize them as if they were sentences. * Make indentation of gropdf news consistent with the other items. * Turn a giant noun clause about the new configure option into a sentence.
I said I'd hold off on committing, so I'll leave these changes to others' discretion. -- Regards, Branden
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 71af08a5..1f7c805c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
- Copyright (C) 1992-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
@@ -22,50 +22,50 @@ o The `hy' request has been extended. Value 16 enables hyphenation before
PDFPIC
------
-o PDFPIC has now been corrected, so the behaviour is the same whether you
- use the postscript or pdf drivers. However, this means that any documents
- which were written using the old behaviour will not be rendered correctly
- if using the pdf driver with the new version.
+o PDFPIC has been corrected so the behaviour is the same whether you use the
+ postscript or pdf drivers. However, this means that any documents which
+ were written using the old behaviour will not be rendered correctly if
+ using the pdf driver with the new version.
The change would mean that documents which relied on the previous
behaviour are likely to have a gap underneath the image which was not
there before. If you see this effect there are three ways you can restore
- the previous 0behaviour:-
+ the previous behaviour:
Add the line ".nr PDFPIC_NOSPACE 1" to the document before the first call
to .PDFPIC.
If it is just a single document which exhibits this behaviour you can run
- groff adding "- rPDFPIC_NOSPACE=1" to the command-line.
+ groff adding "-rPDFPIC_NOSPACE=1" to the command line.
If you have many documents which rely on the previous behaviour you can
set an environment variable "export GROFF_PDFPIC_NOSPACE=1" which will
restore the previous behaviour for all runs.
Note that this change has no effect it you were using .PDFPIC with the
- postscript driver, only if you used it with the pdf driver.
+ postscript driver--only if you used it with the pdf driver.
Gropdf
------
- o Type 1 font loading fixed to handle newer ghostscript versions.
+o Type 1 font loading is fixed to handle newer ghostscript versions.
- o Handling of glyphs above position 255 improved to allow many more glyphs
- to be used.
+o Handling of glyphs above position 255 is improved to allow many more
+ glyphs to be used.
- o New macros .pdftransition and .pdfpause introduced to allow creation of
- presentation slides. Partially backward compatible with present.tmac,
- specifically the PAUSE, BLOCKS and BLOCKE commands. Supports all the
- transition types introduced in PDF v1.5. (See gropdf man page)
+o New macros .pdftransition and .pdfpause are introduced to allow creation
+ of presentation slides. Partially backward-compatible with present.tmac,
+ specifically the PAUSE, BLOCKS and BLOCKE commands. Supports all the
+ transition types introduced in PDF v1.5 (see the gropdf man page).
Miscellaneous
-------------
-o New 'configure' option --with-compatibility-wrappers to control how groff
+o A new 'configure' option --with-compatibility-wrappers controls how groff
compatibility wrappers for vendor-provided non-GNU macro sets are
- installed (See: ./configure --help).
+ installed (see ./configure --help).
o eqn2graph, grap2graph, and pic2graph now attempt to adapt to very old
installed versions of the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick programs
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