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| author | wlemb <wlemb> | 2000-10-25 21:06:40 +0000 |
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| committer | wlemb <wlemb> | 2000-10-25 21:06:40 +0000 |
| commit | 7cdd47b59da0d60d0ef9be3e750a486b1c741511 (patch) | |
| tree | a4e2bb5ff7c3b93cf1322ddf5046b161ddb0a3da /NEWS | |
| parent | 4208ab6d18cf5bf71f4c444db0adf3b3e2b0ce17 (diff) | |
| download | groff-7cdd47b59da0d60d0ef9be3e750a486b1c741511.tar.gz | |
Invert current behaviour: Search first FOOBAR.tmac, then
tmac.FOOBAR.
* src/roff/troff/input.cc: Introduce MACRO_POSTFIX.
(open_mac_file, macro_source): Implement it.
* src/roff/troff/troff.man, tmac/groff_tmac.man, man/roff.man,
doc/groff.texinfo, NEWS: Document it.
* src/roff/nroff/nroff.man, src/roff/groff/groff.man, man/groff.man:
Small documentation improvements.
* test-groff: Fix GROFF_TMAC_PATH (hyphen.us is now in the tmac
subdirectory also).
* font/devps/Makefile.sub: Fix rules for dingbats.*map.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ are not described. There are more details in the man pages. Groff ----- -To support platforms with 8+3 filenames, `-mFOO' will now search first for -tmac.FOO and then for FOO.tmac. Additionally, some macro files have been -renamed using the latter scheme to avoid 8+3 name clashes. +`-mFOO' will now search first for `FOO.tmac' and then for `tmac.FOO'. The +old behaviour has been changed to overcome problems with platforms which +have an 8+3 file name limit, and platforms which have other versions of +troff installed also. Additionally, some macro files have been renamed +using the latter scheme to avoid 8+3 name clashes. The new environment variable GROFF_BIN_PATH will be checked for programs groff is calling (preprocessors, troff, and output devices). If not set, |