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groff
- XHTML support has been added to grohtml and can be
specified by -Txhtml. This option also utilizes the MathML
capability of eqn and combines the outputs of both in the
final XHTML file. Users can also specify the `-P-V' option
together with `-Txhtml' in groff. This has the effect of
creating an XHTML validator button at the bottom of each
page.
- Some options have been
added to control a new preprocessor, `preconv' (see below):
`-k' activates it, `-K' sets the input encoding, and `-D'
sets the default encoding.
- A new environment
variable `GROFF_ENCODING' sets the encoding of input files;
it implies command option `-k'.
troff
- Two new requests `device' and `devicem' have been
added which are equivalents to the \X and \Y escapes,
respectively.
- A new read-only number
register `.br' is available which is set to 1 if a
macro is called as .foo and to 0 if called as 'foo.
This allows to reliably modify requests.
.als bp@orig bp
.de bp
. tm before bp
. ie \\n[.br] .bp@orig
. el 'bp@orig
. tm after bp
..
- A new request `fzoom'
has been added to adjust the optical size of a font in
relation to the others. The zoom factor is given in integer
multiples of 1/1000th. In the following example, the CR font
is magnified by 10% (the zoom factor is 1.1).
.fam P
.fzoom CR 1100
.ps 12
Palatino and \f[CR]Courier\f[]
The new number register `.zoom'
holds the zoom value of the current font, in multiples of
1/1000th.
- The `cflags' request
has been extended with a new flag value 64, to be used in
combination with values 2 (break before character)
and 4 (break after character). If set, the hyphenation
codes of the surrounding characters are ignored.
- A new debugging
request, `pev', has been added to print all of the current
known environments to stderr. It first prints the state of
the current environment, then iterates through all of the
known environments, printing each except the one that is
current.
- A new escape `\$^' has
been added. It represents the parameters of a macro as if
they were an argument to the `ds' request. This is used by
`trace.tmac'.
- A new read-only number
register `.O' is available which returns the current
suppression level as set by the `\O' escape.
- The space width emitted
by the `\|' and `\^' escape sequences can be controlled on a
per-font basis. If there is a glyph named `\|' or `\^',
respectively (note the leading backslash), defined in the
current font file, use this glyph's width instead of the
default value.
This behaviour is not new, but
hasn't been documented before.
nroff
- Two new command line options `-w' and `-W' are
accepted and passed to groff to enable and disable warning
messages, respectively.
preconv
- This is a new preprocessor to convert various input
encodings to something groff understands (this is, ASCII and
\[uXXXX] entities, with `XXXX' a hexadecimal number with 4
to 6 digits, representing a Unicode input code). Normally,
preconv should be invoked with options `-k' and `-K' of
groff. See the preconv man page for details.
pic
- int(x) now really behaves as documented: It
truncates the non-integer part of x, this is, it rounds
towards zero and not towards the next integer less than or
equal to x.
- Pic now supports up to
32 macro arguments (and up to 16 on EBCDIC platforms).
- Heinz-Jürgen
Örtel contributed code for two new keywords, `xslanted'
and `yslanted', which can change the shape of boxes into
arbitrary parallelograms.
tbl
- Latest versions of DWB tbl introduced an `x' column
specifier for a single column expanded to the line width.
GNU tbl has now been extended to support even multiple `x'
specifiers within a table.
- To avoid collision with
the new `x' specifier, a block formatting macro must now be
selected with specifier letter `m'.
eqn
- Eric S. Raymond has added a new device type to eqn,
MathML. When -TMathML is enabled, eqn now emits MathML
formula markup rather than groff commands. The new groff
-Txhtml device uses this.
chem
- The preprocessor `chem' was added. `chem' is a roff
language to generate chemical structure diagrams. It
generates `pic' output.
grops
grotty
- \D'p...' is now supported if the polygon consists
entirely of horizontal and vertical lines.
grohtml
- XHTML support has been added.
- New command line option
`-V' (to be used in XHTML mode) to produce an XHTML
validator button.
- New command line option
`-y' to produce a right-justified groff signature at the end
of the document (in combination with option `-V').
gxditview
- Support for keyboard navigation has been
improved.
- Similar to other X11
applications, there are now two resource files, `GXditview'
and `GXditview-color'.
groffer
- `groffer' version 1.* exists now in a shell and a
Perl version.
afmtodit
- New option `-c' to output more font information as
comments.
- New option `-k' to
suppress output of kerning data.
- New option `-f NAME' to
set the internal name of the groff font.
macro packages
- Joachim Walsdorff contributed the `hdtbl' package
for the generation of tables, using a syntax very similar to
the HTML table model. For example, a table with two cells
and two rows looks like this:
.TBL cols=2
. TR .TD 1*1 .TD 1*2
. TR .TD 2*1 .TD 2*2
.ETB
Here the same table using a more
expanded syntax:
.TBL cols=2
. TR
. TD 1*1
. TD 1*2
. TR
. TD 2*1
. TD 2*2
.ETB
Tables can be nested; `hdtbl'
works without a preprocessor so that the full capability of
groff's macro engine is available.
This package currently works
with `-Tps' only.
- -mandoc now supports
multiple man pages (in either man or mdoc format).
- Fabrice Ménard
contributed locales support. In particular, it is now
possible to get French localization of the main macro
packages (-ms, -mm, -me, and -mom, but not -man and -mdoc
which are localized differently) by appending `-mfr' to the
list of macro packages. Example:
groff -ms -mfr foo > foo.ps
Note that latin-9 input encoding
is used for French (to support the `oe' ligature).
- Swedish macro
localization (with `-msv') has been added.
- German macro
localization (with `-mde' and `-mden' for traditional and
new orthography, respectively) has been added.
- Czech macro
localization (with `-mcs') has been added.
Note that latin-2 input encoding
is used for Czech.
- A new macro `Dx' has
been added to the mdoc package which identifies the
DragonFly OS.
- If mdoc is used to
print multiple man pages (together with the -rcR=0 command
line option), each man page now starts a new page.
- -mtrace has been
considerably improved, now showing number and string
register assignments, among other things. See the
groff_trace man page for details.
- The PSPIC macro now
works with all devices (producing a hollow rectangle on
devices which don't support inclusion of PS images) and is
loaded in troffrc at start-up.
- A new auxiliary macro
package `62bit' has been added which provides some macros
for adding, multiplying, and dividing signed 62bit integers
(mainly to handle normal groff number operations without
risking overflow errors).
- For -ms, Eric S.
Raymond contributed support for ancient Bell Labs localisms
`.SC', `.UC', `.P1', and `.P2'. The latter three are enabled
only after .SC is called.
- A new string,
`SN-STYLE', has been added to the ms macros, controlling the
formatting of section numbers in headings defined by
`.NH'.
- The new macro package
`ptx' provides a template definition for the `.xx' macro as
needed by GNU ptx (for creating permuted indices).
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