groff 1.23.0-1 source package in Ubuntu
Changelog
groff (1.23.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release (closes: #1040440):
- [libdriver]: Fix SEGV in printer::set_ascii_char (closes: #421437).
- [docs]: groff(7): Replace many uses of \[cq] with \[aq] when the
latter is what is meant (closes: #551111).
- [docs]: groff(7): Fix missing escape synonyms for '.ft' (closes:
#1021961).
- [tbl]: Regularize diagnostics (closes: #710178).
- [troff]: Avoid infinite loop (closes: #892423).
- [docs]: roff(7): Revise language referring to Emacs as the "best"
program for editing roff documents (closes: #248529).
- [mdoc]: Fix infinite loop (closes: #411227).
- [mdoc]: Fix bad page number placement (closes: #919890).
- [mdoc]: Improve output of .At 32v (closes: #991633).
- [libbib]: Validate input to avoid heap overread (closes: #716109).
- [fonts]: Fix \[oq] and \[cq] in X11 text fonts (closes: #243238).
- [gropdf]: Recognize "com10" paper format (closes: #1009248).
- [docs]: Document grotty pager requirements more prominently (closes:
#257413).
- [docs]: pic(1): Fix content nits, including no longer referring to
pic.ms (closes: #1032227).
- [tmac]: Define fallbacks for chars in Latin-[259] (closes: #782903).
- [mdoc]: Drop thin and hair space escape sequences from several string
definitions (closes: #1021795).
- [mdoc]: Indent entire subsection heading by 3 ens, even if it breaks
across output lines (closes: #1022179).
* Build-depend on m4, texlive-base, and texlive-latex-base (closes:
#1011666).
* Override Lintian source-is-missing misfire (see #1019980).
* Drop mapping of \(oq to ' on devices other than utf8; upstream does this
now for latin1, which is probably good enough.
* Adopt upstream's use of SGR escape sequences for man/mdoc (LP: #610609).
I turned these off for Debian in 2002 because pagers didn't cope well at
the time, but it's now 21 years later and things have changed; SGR
escape sequences resolve some ambiguity (see #963490) and are required
for new features such as clickable hyperlinks.
* Honour /etc/papersize in PDF output, now that gropdf has the necessary
support upstream (closes: #1030097).
* Set doc-default-operating-system to "Debian" (closes: #284002).
* Map "^" to "\[ha]" and "~" to "\[ti]" for man/mdoc on the utf8 device,
to mitigate an upstream change likely to expose many glyph usage errors
in manual pages (although those errors were already visible in PDF
output).
* Arrange to rebuild documentation from the original source.
* Install groff.pdf (the PDF form of groff's Texinfo manual).
* Only force time display to UTC when the time came from SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
(LP: #1908333).
* Enable OSC 8 hyperlinks for man pages.
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Jul 2023 05:30:17 +0100
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Binary packages built by this source
- groff: GNU troff text-formatting system
This package contains optional components of the GNU troff text-formatting
system. The core package, groff-base, contains the traditional tools like
troff, nroff, tbl, eqn, and pic. This package contains additional devices
and drivers for output to DVI, HTML (when recommended packages are
installed - see below), PDF, HP LaserJet printers, and Canon CAPSL LBP-4
and LBP-8 printers.
.
The X75, X75-12, X100, and X100-12 devices, which allow groff output to be
conveniently viewed on an X display using the standard X11 fonts, are now
included here. They were previously in a separate package, groff-x11.
.
Besides these, the groff package contains man pages describing the language
and its macro sets, info documentation, and a number of supplementary
programs:
.
- gxditview, which is used to display the output of the X* devices, and
can also be used to view PostScript output from groff;
- grn, a preprocessor for pictures in the 'gremlin' format;
- tfmtodit, which creates font files for use with 'groff -Tdvi';
- hpftodit, which creates font files for use with 'groff -Tlj4';
- afmtodit, which creates font files for use with 'groff -Tps';
- refer, which preprocesses bibliographic references for use with groff;
- indxbib, which creates inverted indices for bibliographic databases used
by 'refer';
- lkbib and lookbib, which search bibliographic databases;
- addftinfo, which adds metric information to troff font files for use
with groff;
- pfbtops, which translates a PostScript font in .pfb format to ASCII for
use with groff;
- mmroff, a simple groff preprocessor which expands references in mm;
- pic2graph, which converts PIC diagrams into cropped image files;
- eqn2graph, which converts EQN equations into cropped image files;
- pdfmom, which runs 'groff -mom' to produce PDFs.
.
All the standard macro packages are supported.
.
Some facilities only work if certain recommended packages are installed:
.
- ghostscript, netpbm, psutils: required for HTML output;
- imagemagick: required for the pic2graph and eqn2graph programs;
- libpaper1: paper size detection in dvi, lbp, lj4, and ps devices (falls
back to a4 if not installed);
- perl: required for PDF output and for the chem preprocessor.
- groff-base: GNU troff text-formatting system (base system components)
This package contains the traditional UN*X text formatting tools
troff, nroff, tbl, eqn, and pic. These utilities, together with the
man-db package, are essential for displaying the on-line manual pages.
.
groff-base is a stripped-down package containing the necessary components
to read manual pages in ASCII, Latin-1, and UTF-8, plus the PostScript
device (groff's default). Users who want a full groff installation, with
the standard set of devices, fonts, macros, and documentation, should
install the groff package.
- groff-base-dbgsym: debug symbols for groff-base
- groff-dbgsym: debug symbols for groff
