Copyright 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. Release 2.0-b ------------- Improved and expanded float and tbl support. Release 2.0-a ------------- FORCE argument added to FLOAT; immediately breaks to a new page to output the float if it does not fit on current the page. Release 2.0 ----------- Full integration with gropdf. Mom's focus now is on the generation of PDF output. PDF outlines and PDF links (internal and external) fully supported. New management of nested heading levels via HEADING , replacing HEAD, SUBHEAD, SUBSUBHEAD and PARAHEAD. "NAMED " argument to HEADING creates PDF target at the heading. Use of "oldstyle" headings preserved, allowing the continued use of HEAD, SUBHEAD, etc. PARAHEAD removed; replaced by HEADING PARAHEAD. New management of head styling. New management of TOC, mostly transparent to user. New management of TOC title and entry styling. Overhaul of TOC default style; greater flexibility in numbering entries, improved indenting, improved spacing. FLOAT macro added. MN_INIT wrapper re-written such that each argument must be preceded by a flag. New perl script, pdfmom, to facilitate generation of PDF output. Additional documentation in the form of a PDF manual, which covers mom/PDF/groff usage. ==================================================================== Release 1.6-a ------------- Support for sub-subheads added. Release 1.6 ----------- Complete overhaul of refer handling. If you've been using mom and refer, the changes may affect documents you've already created. Please read refer.html. Improved underlining thanks to Tadziu Hoffman. Increased flexibility of PRINTSTYLE TYPEWRITE, which now allows user to choose the monospace family and point size. Release 1.5-e ------------- Complete overhaul of documentation Release 1.5-d ------------- Control macros added to various miscellaneous docprocessing functions Release 1.5-c ------------- Bugfix release (see BUGS, Version 1.5-b). Release 1.5-b ------------- Bugfix release (see BUGS, Version 1.5-a). Release 1.5-a ------------- Bugfix release (see BUGS, Version 1.5). Release 1.5 ----------- Macros have been added to facilitate the drawing of common graphical objects: rules (horizontal and vertical), boxes (solid or filled) and circles (ellipses; also solid or filled). The behaviour of \*[RULE] has changed so that it always deposits a break when it's called, bringing it (somewhat) into line with the new macro for drawing rules precisely, DRH. Additionally, a new macro, RULE_WEIGHT, can be used to control the weight of rules drawn with \*[RULE]. Overall, the handling of underscoring and underlining--wherever it occurs--has been overhauled so that users can control both the weight and the placement of underscore/underline rules. New macros have been created to control, for example, the weight and placement of the rule under a HEAD, or the weight of a FOOTNOTE separator rule, etc. Anything that can be underscored or underlined (except the pseudo-underlining of italic passages in PRINTSTYLE TYPEWRITE) has a "rule" control macro. See the document sections pertinent to the macro in question. The creation and management of covers and doc covers has been overhauled for greater flexibility, including the ability to generate differing titles, subtitles, attribution strings, authors, doctypes, miscellaneous lines and copyright information for the same document's doc cover and cover (title) pages, without affecting the default docheader that appears on page one. Additionally, you can now get mom to output a blank page after a cover or doc cover, as well as tell her whether to include covers and doc covers in the pagination scheme. The convenience macro, CODE, has been made more convenient. A new control macro allows setting users' prefered fixed-width fonts. Additionally, CODE can now be called inline. New inline escapes, \*[UC] and \*[LC], have been added to allow inline capitalization. This is particularly useful when users want to pass a header/footer left-center-right part one of mom's "reserved" strings and want the string capitalized (or not) in the header/footer. For more details, see ChangeLog as well as the documentation. Release 1.4-b ------------- It is now possible to pass an absolute value to QUOTE_INDENT, BLOCKQUOTE_INDENT and EPIGRAPH_INDENT. If an absolute value is desired, the user simply appends a unit of measure (scaling indicator) to the argument. If no unit of measure is appended, the old behaviour is still observed (i.e. the numeric argument represents the amount by which to multiply the paragraph indent to arrive at the desired indent value). The main macro file, om.tmac, is now stripped of comments when groff is built from sources. om.tmac in the sources themselves still contains the comments, as do the tarballs posted on the mom homepage. Release 1.4-a ------------- Added a new macro, HEADERS_AND_FOOTERS, to allow having both headers and footers on a page. Release 1.4 ----------- DOCTITLE, TITLE, CHAPTER_TITLE, SUBTITLE, COVERTITLE and DOC_COVERTITLE now accept multiple arguments; each is printed on a separate line. New macro, CODE, to facilitate setting programming code snippets. Release 1.3-e_<#> ----------------- New macro, PREFIX_CHAPTER_NUMBER, to allow users to prepend chapter numbers to the numbering scheme used in head element numbering. Indented TOC entries now line up better. Line numbering now has control macros for family, font, point size and color. A new macro, NO_SHIM, to disable the automatic shimming of (possibly irregularly linespaced) quotes and blockquotes. Release 1.3-d ------------- Bug fix release (FONT--removed superfluous "if" that was breaking fallback font logic; FOOTNOTE--no longer adding a linebreak after footnote marker in footnote text in nofill modes). Fixed indent problem with LIST when both PAD_LIST_DIGITS LEFT and SHIFT_LIST used concurrently. Release 1.3-c ------------- Bug fix release (margin notes, TYPEWRITE--spacing, underlining and italicizing Release 1.3-b ------------- Bug fix release. SMARTQUOTES has been smartened; miscellaneous glitches in PRINTSTYLE TYPEWRITE fixed (see BUGS). Primarily corrects inconsistencies and bugs with the margin notes routines. Release 1.3-a ------------- Bug fixes: First baseline of type wasn't going where it was supposed to when the docheader was turned off; fixes to errors in html formattting of docs. Release 1.3 ----------- Added line numbering capabilities, with controls. Footnotes and endnotes can now be referenced by line number. Added ability to adjust vertical position of the title that appears on the first endnotes page. Footnotes can run on when being referenced by line number. Footnotes now have a post-footnote spacing option, for adding a little space between footnotes. Extended LIST so it accepts alpha, ROMAN and roman enumerators. Added margin notes capability. Added refer support. Added bibliography page support. Added QUOTE_AUTOLEAD and BLOCKQUOTE_AUTOLEAD, so user can have quotes and blockquotes leaded differently from running text. Change: the input line immediately after FOOTNOTE OFF must be entered as a literal continuation of the line prior to FOOTNOTE, including any initial spaces or punctuation marks. This allows for hassle-free placing of footnote markers in running text either before or after punctuation marks. Release 1.2-f ------------- Added ADD_SPACE, to permit users to insert space at the top of running text (after the first page) when using the docprocessing macros. Releases 1.2-a and 1.2-b ------------------------ My personal email address has changed. 1.2-a and -b have been updated to reflect that. Additionally, I made some small changes to the documentation. Release 1.2 ----------- As of 1.2, the recommended version of groff to use with mom has been bumped up from groff, 1.18 to groff, 1.19.2. Although mom will continue to work with groff, 1.18, her handling of .FAM(ILY) and .FT is now slightly different, therefore users of groff 1.18 may have to update documents created with mom so that every .FAM(ILY) request is followed by a .FT request before any text is input, otherwise mom will set the text after .FAM(ILY) in Courier (until she encounters a .FT request). People running groff, >= 1.19.2 don't have to worry about this, but I recommend that, regardless of which version you're running, you have a look at the document entries for FAMILY and FT in order to see how mom will be handling .FAMILY and .FT from now on. When used with groff >=1.19.2, mom now emits warnings if a style hasn't been registered, or if a font style doesn't exist in the current family. Invalid .FAM(ILY) calls now use a "fallback" font" (although no warning is issued). The fallback is user-settable. Mom's macro file, om.tmac, now sets up a fairly extensive list of font "styles," thus expanding the range of arguments that can be passed to .FT (formerly, just R, I, B and BI, unless users had already rolled their own solution to the problem of extensive type families containing fonts like condensed, demibold, black, light, etc). Users are advised to read the documentation sections on FAM(ILY), FT and FALLBACK_FONT, as well as the new appendix section, "Adding PostScript fonts to groff", for information on using mom's style extensions (and how to disable them, should they conflict with a user's present groff site-font/devps setup). A new macro, FALLBACK_FONT, has been added. It controls not only the fallback font for invalid .FAMILY calls, but also whether mom aborts on invalid .FT calls after issuing a warning, or continues processing using the fallback. Release 1.1.9 ------------- Added the (optional) generation of cover pages and document cover pages, plus a full suite of control macros for all cover page elements. Added new reference macros that apply to covers: COVERTITLE, DOC_COVERTITLE, COPYRIGHT and MISC. The need for TRAP OFF/TRAP to deal with ELs and TNs that fall at the bottom page has been obsoleted. However, both EL and TN, when invoked in any "nofill" mode (LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER, or the L | R | C arguments to TAB_SET or ST when no QUAD argument is given), must now have the input line preceding the EL or TN terminated by \c. Fill modes do not have this requirement, i.e. no \c is required. Footnotes that occur inside quotes, blockquotes and epigraphs now work just like regular footnotes, with no user intervention required. This obsoletes the macro BREAK_QUOTE. Removed all aliases that used the word COLOUR. Users must use COLOR wherever COLOR is needed. COLOUR, as a replacement/alias, is no longer supported. NEWPAGE, which used to be an alias of .bp, is now its own macro. Release 1.1.8 ------------- Added text color support. Users can now define or initialize a color, and afterwards change text color with an inline of the form \*[], or with the macro .COLOR. In document processing, the docelement tag control macros have been expanded to include _COLOR, e.g. .HEAD_COLOR will colorize heads, PAGENUM_COLOR ]. This brings mom's inline size change syntax into line with her other inlines. \*S[] can still be used for the same thing. The file elvis_syntax (for elvis prior to 2.2h) is no longer being maintained. It was getting messy and long in the tooth. The official elvis syntax file is elvis_syntax.new, which works for 2.2h of elvis (and higher, one hopes). elvis users are encouraged to update to 2.2h or higher. Release 1.1.6-e --------------- Extended handling of draft and revision numbers and strings in headers/footers for increased flexibility. It's possible now to have just about any combo of DRAFT_STRING, DRAFT, REVISION_STRING and REVISION, and have them come out in headers/footers as one intuitively expects/wants. Also added a new set of syntax highlighting rules for the vi clone, elvis. Version 2-2h-beta of elvis finally made possible the highlighting of \*[...] inline escapes, whether or not they're separated from surrounding text by spaces. This is a terrific improvement in elvis, and makes for greatly improved readability of mom files. Release 1.1.6-b - 1.1.6d ------------------------ Trivial changes to documentation and some cleanups of the main om.tmac file, including: Added a .bp after .if \\n[#START]=1 in FOOTER. Without it, in document processing mode, documents that use *none* of the docprocessing tags (yes, there are times when users want to do this) ignored the footer trap. Changed register #DOCHEADER_LEAD_ADJ to string $DOCHEADER_LEAD_ADJ. This means that .DOCHEADER_LEAD no longer requires a unit of measure; points is assumed. Release 1.1.6-b --------------- Added a SHIM macro that calculates and moves to the next "valid" baseline during document processing (useful if user starts playing around with spacing/leading on a page and needs to get the leading back on track). Fixed handling of DOCHEADER OFF so that the first line of running text falls on a "valid" baseline when is given. Release 1.1.6-a --------------- Problem with groff 1.19.1 fixed by Werner (.return handled arguments incorrectly). Fixed handling of page numbering style restoration in endnotes, so that (collated) docs have the correct page numbering style when the style has been changed for endnotes (with ENDNOTES_PAGENUM_STYLE). DOC_TITLE has been made for use exclusively with DOCTYPE DEFAULT. Fixed handling of headers/footers with respect to endnotes. Now, when either headers or footers are on, mom picks up the correct page header/footer on the last page prior to ENDNOTES, gets the pageheaders correct for endnotes pages *including the last one*, and picks up correct page headers/footers for the subsequent docs after COLLATE. Release 1.1.6 ------------- BAD NEWS: mom appears to be crippled in some areas when run with groff 1.19.1. Pending a solution, mom must be run with groff 1.18 ***NEW*** Added TOC capabilities. Extended range of endnotes control macros. See the documentation on endnotes control macros. Added a new DOC_TITLE macro, to deal with collated documents that have an overall title, while each doc has its own separate doc title (from TITLE). Release 1.1.5 ------------- ***NEW*** Added James Ramsey's CHAPTER_TITLE macro as well as control macros to go with it. Thanks James. Also from James came a patch to handle START differenty which has been incorporated into om.tmac. Thanks again, James. Some bits and pieces of the docs have been tweaked, but nothing changed. Hopefully, the changes will make parts of the docs easier to read and navigate. ***FIXES*** o \*[RULE] o broken draft and revision in docheaders o post-epigraph spacing in TYPEWRITE o header spacing in TYPEWRITE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Release 1.1.4 ------------- ***SIGNIFICANT CHANGE*** .IX is now deprecated, although it will continue to work as before. The new form is .IQ (Indent Quit). Groff will emit a message advising users to update their docs. ***NEW*** Four new inlines to deal with horizontal and vertical movements: o \*[FWD n] o \*[BCK n] o \*[UP n] o \*[DOWN n] All four require a unit of measure after n. These inlines are similar to the older \*[FPn], \*[BPn], \*[ALDn] and \*[RLDn], however they're not restricted to points, and any value can be entered for n (the older forms -- which still work -- were restricted to 1 - 36). ***CHANGED*** Inline kerning can now be accomplished with \*[BU n] and \*[FU n], where n, after the space, is the desired number of kern units. The older forms \*[BUn] and \*[FUn] still work, up to 36 units. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Release 1.1.3c -------------- ***NEW*** A new macro -- ENDNOTES_HDRFTR_CENTER -- added so that mom's default behaviour of not printing the header center string when DOCTYPE is CHAPTER can be disabled (i.e. she will print the center string). The macro is user-called with ENDNOTES_HEADER_CENTER or ENDNOTES_FOOTER_CENTER. ***FIXES*** PAD now works as advertised when fill mode is on. ENDNOTES no longer disables printing of footnotes on last page of document body. Release 1.1.3 ------------- ***SIGNIFICANT CHANGE -- PLEASE TAKE NOTE*** As of 1.1.3, groff must be >= 1.18. ***NEW*** Added endnotes functionality to mom, along with a slew of macros to control how mom prints endnotes pages. See the html documentation. ***NEW*** Added inline \*[RULE], which draws a rule to the full measure of the current line length ( to be used in place of \h'\n(.lu' ). Weight of the rule is dependent on the point size of type when \#[RULE] is called. ***FIXES*** PAD -- works more intuitively now when the pad string contains inline escapes for font, point size, etc. UNDERLINE -- fixed character translations of digraphs so they get underlined properly. Also fixed a bug that was causing some footnotes to get underlined when UNDERLINE was on in the body of the document. ***UPDATES*** Html documentation elvis_syn Release 1.1.2a -------------- ***SIGNIFICANT CHANGE -- PLEASE TAKE NOTE*** In order to help mom toward full groffship, the macro .PS has been renamed to .PT_SIZE, and the alias .TS (for .TAB_SET) has been removed. .PS and .TS are keywords used by pic and tbl respectively, and the mom macros of the same name were in conflict. Release 1.1.2 ------------- ***IT'S OFFICIAL!*** mom is now an official part of the groff. New releases will be incorporated into the groff package. I'll still be posting each new release on the mom homepage, so there's no need to download all of the most recent version of groff just to get a newer mom. :) ***CHANGES*** Fixed default footer separator rule adjustment so that it's closer to the advertised "4 points above the tallest ascender in the footer." Added more stuff to the elvis_syn file. Still wouldn't mind someone contributing some vim/emacs syntax highlighting. Added .cflags 4 /\(em to om.tmac. By default, mom now obligingly breaks after / and \(en. ***NEW*** Macro(s): HEADER_RECTO HEADER_VERSO With these macros, users can now define single-string recto/verso headers/footers. HEADER_RECTO (or FOOTER_RECTO) can be used to create a one-part header/footer (instead of mom's default three-parters) that appears on every page if RECTO_VERSO is OFF or, if RECTO_VERSO is on, if no HEADER_VERSO (or FOOTER_VERSO) has been defined. If a HEADER_VERSO (or FOOTER_VERSO) is defined and RECTO_VERSO is on, _RECTO prints on even pages and _VERSO on odd pages. Added macro DRAFT_WITH_PAGENUMBER so user can have draft/revision info attached to the pagenumber in COPYSTYLE DRAFT, instead of having it HEADER center. Always having it HEADER center was creating problems with long doc titles, esp. with PRINTSTYLE TYPEWRITE (which is when COPYSTYLE DRAFT is most likely to be used). ***FIXES*** No more "can't break line" warnings in DOCTYPE LETTER. If no REVISION number is given, Rev. 0 no longer appears HEADER_CENTER in COPYSTYLE DRAFT PAGENUM_STYLE now works as advertised. Release 1.1.1 ------------- ***CHANGES*** Main macro file renamed to om.tmac, in keeping with current groff policy. Now okay to use groff mailing list for mom-related posts ***NEW*** Toggle macro -- BR_AT_LINE_KERN. When on, automatically deposits a break whenever .RW or .EW are invoked. Very useful when kerning whole lines of rag copy. ***NEW*** Toggle macro -- PAGENUM_ON_FIRST_PAGE. Normally, when FOOTERS are being used instead of HEADERS, mom doesn't print the page number at the top of the first page of a doc, or the first page of collated docs. PAGENUM_ON_FIRST_PAGE allows user to get mom to put the page number on "first" pages if that's desired. ***NEW*** Macro -- BREAK_QUOTE -- to deal with problem of footnoted quotes and blockquotes that cross a page or column. ***NEW*** New argument to AUTOLEAD -- FACTOR. With FACTOR, you can, if you wish, enter a factor by which AUTOLEAD multiplies the point size when calculating lead automatically. Improvements ------------ PAPER now has a much larger selection of common paper sizes. \*[ALD], \*[RLD], \*[FP] and \*[BP] now accept increments of quarter points (expressed as decimal fractions). \*[RLD1.75], for example, reverses 1-3/4 points up on the line. HEADER_SIZE now available to PRINTSTYLE TYPEWRITE. This was necessary to deal with the problem of excessively long HEADER_LEFT, _CENTER or _RIGHT strings. Fixes ----- T_MARGIN -- can be set before or after LS or AUTOLEAD SS -- remains constant regardless of WS WS -- no longer affects SS TI -- now works as expected even when called while another indent type is in effect COLLATE -- small fixes Broken .RW and .EW fixed. String tabs now behave properly when set from within tabs. UNDERLINE_QUOTES (for PRINTSTYLE TYPEWRITE) are now, in fact, on by default as the docs state.