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authorG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2022-10-04 05:52:55 -0500
committerG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2022-10-06 07:23:27 -0500
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NEWS: Add items.
* NEWS: Advise users of changes to "name" directive handling in font description files. Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61423>. Thanks to Dave Kemper for the report.
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@@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ o New requests `stringdown` and `stringup` are available. These change
o The `ab` request no longer writes "User Abort." to the standard error
stream if given no arguments.
+o The `fp` request no longer accepts file or font names with slashes in
+ them as arguments. All font description files are expected to be
+ accessible within the directory of the output device for which they
+ were prepared.
+
nroff
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@@ -580,6 +585,11 @@ o The 'doc' Make target has been eliminated. 'all' (the default Make
manual's sources are modified; the distribution archive now provides
copies of the manual in Info, plain text, HTML, DVI, and PDF.
+o The "afmtodit" utility no longer writes file names with directory
+ information in them to the "name" directives of the font descriptions
+ it generates. (The `fp` request no longer accepts such names; see
+ "troff" above.)
+
o groffer has been deleted from the distribution.
o grog no longer supports the "--warnings" option; the one diagnostic