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@@ -1,14 +1,30 @@ This file describes recent user-visible changes in groff. Bug fixes are not described. There are more details in the man pages. -VERSION 1.17.3 -============== - -This is mainly a bug-fixing release. +VERSION 1.18 +============ Troff ----- +o Color support has been added to troff and pic (and to two device drivers, + grops and grohtml -- other preprocessors and drivers will follow). A new + function `defcolor' defines colors; the escape sequence `\m' sets the + drawing color, the escape sequence `\M' specifies the background color for + clsed objects created with \D'...' commands. Similar to fonts, `\mP' and + `\MP' switch back to the previous color. `\m' and `\M' correspond to the + new troff output commands `m' and `DF'. + + Outputting color can be disabled in troff and groff with the option -c + (it is always disabled in compatibility mode). + + For defining color components as fractions between 0 and 1, a new scaling + indicator `f' has been defined: 1f = 65536u. For testing whether a color + is defined (with .if and .ie), a new conditional operator `m' is + available. + + More details can be found in the troff manual page. + o Two macros `AT' (AT&T) and `UC' (Univ. of California) have been added to the man macros for compatibility with older BSD releases. @@ -19,6 +35,23 @@ o The `-xwidth' specifier in the mdoc macro package has been removed. Its o A new macro `Ex' has been added to the mdoc macro package to document an exit status. +groff +----- + +o The new command line `-c' disables color output (which is always disabled + in compatibility mode). + +pic +--- + +o New keywords `color' (or `colour', `colored', `coloured'), `outline' (or + `outlined'), and `shaded' are available. `outline' sets the color of the + outline, `shaded' the fill color, and `color' sets both. Example: + + circle shaded "green" outline "black" ; + + Color support for TeX output is not implemented yet. + Pic2graph --------- @@ -26,6 +59,16 @@ o A new script contributed by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>. It converts a PIC diagram into a cropped image. Since it uses gs and the PNM library, virtually all graphics formats are available for output. +grops +----- + +o Color support has been added. + +grohtml +------- + +o Color support for glyphs has been added (no fill color support yet). + VERSION 1.17.2 ============== @@ -88,7 +131,7 @@ o `-mFOO' now searches first for `FOO.tmac' and then for `tmac.FOO'. The o The new environment variable GROFF_BIN_PATH is checked for programs groff is calling (preprocessors, troff, and output devices) before PATH. If not - set, it defaults to the directory where the groff binary is located. + set, it defaults to the directory where the groff binary is located. Previously, it was PATH only. The nroff script only uses GROFF_BIN_PATH to find the groff binary but passes both the GROFF_BIN_PATH and PATH environment variable to groff. |