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Annotation of coherent/d/bin/nroff/version.change, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: 03-17-86 dag   New version of sources
                      2: 
                      3: The version of the sources in this directory have the following
                      4: features that the old version of troff/nroff did not have:
                      5: 
                      6: Bug fixes too numerous to mention
                      7: 
                      8: HP Laser-Jet II support -- Including a lot of new fonts.
                      9: 
                     10: -D command line option which displays (to stderr) a list of all fonts
                     11:        available in the version.
                     12: 
                     13: Transparent line (\!) is implemented.
                     14: 
                     15: New requests: (in file req3.c)
                     16: 
                     17: .rb <filename> Includes a file, verbatim, in the output stream.
                     18: .bo [N]                Overstrike bold with offset N, if omitted, ups it by 1.
                     19:                N=0 turns it off.
                     20: .nb            Turns off enbolden.
                     21: .fb            Flush the buffers (use before .rb)
                     22: .rp            Restore position (Just in case it got moved by .rb)
                     23: .rf F N                Assign font named F (one or two chars) to name N
                     24:                (one or two chars).  N can be an old or new name.
                     25: .zf            For debugging font stuff -- Dumps current font list to
                     26:                stderr -- as in the -D option.
                     27: 
                     28: Internal changes:
                     29: 
                     30:        The font "width" tables now contain descriptions and spacing
                     31:        information.  Variable/fixed width is now determined by looking
                     32:        up the font and seeing what it says.
                     33: 
                     34:        Current movement parameters, set up by font changes, are now
                     35:        part of the environment.
                     36: 
                     37:        Various debugging information is avaiable when built with
                     38:        the appropriate manifests.  Debugging info courtesy of
                     39:        codebug.c and codebug.h.
                     40: 
                     41:        others too numerous to mention.

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