Hi Doug, At 2024-07-03T14:25:05-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > When I picked up a copy of 1.23.0 barely a week after its release, I > found (and reported) that [groff -ms -p] had a fatal auto-immune > disease, in which -ms diagnosed customary pic output as invalid. > Nearly a year later, our departmental computer center just caught the > disease from Ubuntu.
I had forgotten about this problem. (Magus venit sed non erat locus ad praesepium?) On 17 July, I posted a workaround patch to the mailing list (a one-liner): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-07/msg00117.html The next day I pushed a proper fix to the groff Git repository (another one-liner). https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff-commit/2023-07/msg00288.html I apologize for the regression. > If complaints of unusability have not been piling up in the interim, I would admit that they don't seem to have done so with this bug. > it seems that users like me, with gobs of -ms -p documents, are a > relict endangerd species. Possibly. :( I'll reply separately to this list about the most widespread complaints I've seen about groff 1.23.0. As often happens, I got discursive. Regards, Branden
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
