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## NEWS VERSION 1.19.1

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NEWS VERSION 1.20.1
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NEWS VERSION 1.19.2
NEWS VERSION 1.19.1
NEWS VERSION 1.19
NEWS VERSION 1.18.1
NEWS VERSION 1.18

groff

- 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.

- If option ‘−V’ is used more than once, the commands are both printed on standard error and run.

troff

- Two new read-only, string-valued registers ‘.m’ and ‘.M’ return the name of the current drawing and background color, respectively.

- New read-only register ‘.U’ which is set to 1 if in safer mode and set to 0 if in unsafe mode.

- An input encoding file for latin-5 (a.k.a. ISO 8859-9) has been added. Example use:

  `groff −Tdvi −mlatin5 my_file > my_file.dvi`

  Note that some output devices don’t support all glyphs of this encoding.

- 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.

- 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’).

- 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.

- Since version 1.19 you can say ‘.vs 0’. Older versions emit a warning and convert this to ‘.vs \n[.V]’.

  This hasn’t been documented properly. Note that ‘.vs 0’ isn’t saved in a diversion since it doesn’t result in vertical motion.

pic

- Dashed and dotted ellipses have been implemented.

tbl

- New key character ‘x’ to make tbl call a user-defined macro on a table cell. Patch by Heinz-Jürgen Oertel.

grap2graph

- A new script contributed by Eric S. Raymond. 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.]

grohtml

- New option ‘−j’ to emit output split into multiple files.

grops

- 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.

- The default value for the ‘broken’ keyword in the DESC file is now 0.

grolj4

- A new man page ‘lj4_font(5)’ documents how fonts are accessed with grolj4.

- 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.

afmtodit

- New option ‘−x’ to prevent use of built-in Adobe Glyph List.

hpftodit

- Completely revised to handle HP TrueType metric files also. See the hpftodit manual page for more details.

groffer

- This version is a rewrite of groffer in many parts, but it is kept in the old single script style.

  - New options: −−text (−−mode text), −−tty-viewer, −−X (−−mode X), −−X-viewer, −−html (−−mode html), −−html-view, −−apropos-data, −−apropos-devel, −−apropos-progs.

  - New documentation file README_SH.

  - Enhancement of the configuration files and the ‘apropos’ handling.

macro packages

- www.tmac: New macro ‘JOBNAME’ to split output into multiple files.

- In mdoc, multiple calls to ‘.Lb’ are now supported in the LIBRARY section.

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