[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.23.0-1

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.23.0-1

[ASSI]

GNU roff has been updated to the latest upstream version 1.23.0.  The
following packages are available on Cygwin:

 groff-1.23.0-1
 groff-perl-1.23.0-1
 groff-X11-1.23.0-1

Groff is a document formatting system. Groff takes standard text and
formatting commands as input and produces formatted output. The
created documents can be shown on a display or printed on a printer.
Groff's formatting commands allow you to specify font type and size,
bold type, italic type, the number and size of columns on a page, and
more.

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.23.0-1

[Christian Franke]

ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
> GNU roff has been updated to the latest upstream version 1.23.0.  The
> following packages are available on Cygwin:
>
>   groff-1.23.0-1
>   groff-perl-1.23.0-1
>   groff-X11-1.23.0-1
>

- Various PDF fonts produce warnings but seem to work in general:

$ echo "Hello, World!" | groff -Tpdf -f A > hello.A.pdf
/usr/bin/gropdf: warning: The download file in 
'/usr/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devpdf'  has erroneous entry for 
'AvantGarde-Book (AR)'

$ grep -a BaseFont hello.A.pdf
5 0 obj << /BaseFont /AvantGarde-Book

Affected are all except T(imes), H(elvetica) and C(ourier).

This script tests all PDF fonts for warnings:
===
#!/bin/sh
(cd /usr/share/groff/current/font/devpdf && ls -d *R 2>/dev/null) \
| while read f; do
     f=${f%R}
     echo "$f:"
     echo "Hello, World!" | groff -Tpdf -f "$f" > "hello.$f.pdf"
   done
===


- Man pages could no longer be formatted with a specific font. Only 
header and footer lines use the selected font then, the rest stays at 
the default font 'T':

$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -man -Tpdf -f H > ls.1.H.pdf

$ grep -a BaseFont ls.1.H.pdf
6 0 obj << /BaseFont /Helvetica-Oblique
10 0 obj << /BaseFont /Helvetica
13 0 obj << /BaseFont /Times-Bold
16 0 obj << /BaseFont /Times-Roman
19 0 obj << /BaseFont /Times-Italic

Intentional change or regression?

-- 
Regards,
Christian

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.23.0-1

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-07-22 15:27, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
>> GNU roff has been updated to the latest upstream version 1.23.0.  The
>> following packages are available on Cygwin:
>>   groff-1.23.0-1
>>   groff-perl-1.23.0-1
>>   groff-X11-1.23.0-1

> - Various PDF fonts produce warnings but seem to work in general:
> $ echo "Hello, World!" | groff -Tpdf -f A > hello.A.pdf
> /usr/bin/gropdf: warning: The download file in 
> '/usr/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devpdf'  has erroneous entry for 'AvantGarde-Book 
> (AR)'
> $ grep -a BaseFont hello.A.pdf
> 5 0 obj << /BaseFont /AvantGarde-Book
> Affected are all except T(imes), H(elvetica) and C(ourier).
> This script tests all PDF fonts for warnings:
> #!/bin/sh
> (cd /usr/share/groff/current/font/devpdf && ls -d *R 2>/dev/null) \
> | while read f; do
>      f=${f%R}
>      echo "$f:"
>      echo "Hello, World!" | groff -Tpdf -f "$f" > "hello.$f.pdf"
>    done

> - Man pages could no longer be formatted with a specific font. Only header and 
> footer lines use the selected font then, the rest stays at the default font 'T':
> $ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -man -Tpdf -f H > ls.1.H.pdf
> $ grep -a BaseFont ls.1.H.pdf
> 6 0 obj << /BaseFont /Helvetica-Oblique
> 10 0 obj << /BaseFont /Helvetica
> 13 0 obj << /BaseFont /Times-Bold
> 16 0 obj << /BaseFont /Times-Roman
> 19 0 obj << /BaseFont /Times-Italic
> Intentional change or regression?

There appears to be font alternative/fallback dependencies between groff and 
ghostscript with version numbers - I have previous groff 1.22.4 and gs 10.0 so 
these paths are outdated in my installation:

/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download:   AvantGarde-Book 
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWGothic-Book
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download:   AvantGarde-BookOblique 
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWGothic-BookOblique
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download:   AvantGarde-Demi 
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWGothic-Demi
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download:   AvantGarde-DemiOblique 
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWGothic-DemiOblique
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download:   Bookman-Demi 
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWBookman-Demi
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download:   Bookman-DemiItalic 
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWBookman-DemiItalic
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download:   Bookman-Light 
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWBookman-LightItalic
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download:   Bookman-LightItalic 
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWBookman-Light

What do you have?

It looks like groff should check and update gs version postinstall and gs should 
check for groff and update version postinstall.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.23.0-1

[ASSI]

Christian Franke via Cygwin writes:
> ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
> - Various PDF fonts produce warnings but seem to work in general:
>
> $ echo "Hello, World!" | groff -Tpdf -f A > hello.A.pdf
> /usr/bin/gropdf: warning: The download file in
> '/usr/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devpdf'  has erroneous entry for
> 'AvantGarde-Book (AR)'

WJFFM.  You need to have groff-perl and urw-base35-fonts-legacy
installed.

> - Man pages could no longer be formatted with a specific font. Only
>   header and footer lines use the selected font then, the rest stays
>   at the default font 'T':
[…]
> Intentional change or regression?

IDK, ask upstream.


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.23.0-1

[Christian Franke]

ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
> Christian Franke via Cygwin writes:
>> ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
>> - Various PDF fonts produce warnings but seem to work in general:
>>
>> $ echo "Hello, World!" | groff -Tpdf -f A > hello.A.pdf
>> /usr/bin/gropdf: warning: The download file in
>> '/usr/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devpdf'  has erroneous entry for
>> 'AvantGarde-Book (AR)'
> WJFFM.  You need to have groff-perl and urw-base35-fonts-legacy
> installed.

groff-perl is installed, otherwise groff would complain about a missing 
DESC file. Installing urw-base35-fonts-legacy fixes this, thanks.

It is IMO not obvious for the occasional groff user that this package is 
needed.


>
>> - Man pages could no longer be formatted with a specific font. Only
>>    header and footer lines use the selected font then, the rest stays
>>    at the default font 'T':
> […]
>> Intentional change or regression?
> IDK, ask upstream.

OK, will do. Didn't find anything similar here: 
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=groff

IMO a regression, obvious in the postscript output:

$ groff -man -T ps -f H <<EOF
.TH TOOL "1" "2023-07-23" "Toolset" "Section"
.SH NAME
Tool \- do something interesting
EOF
...
%%EndPageSetup
/F0 10/Helvetica-Oblique@0 SF -.4(TO)72 48 S(OL).4 E/F1 10/Helvetica@0
SF 174.995(\(1\) Section).5 F F0 -.4(TO)177.775 G(OL).4 E F1(\(1\)).5 E
/F2 10.95/Times-Bold@0 SF -.219(NA)72 84 S(ME).219 E/F3 10/Times-Roman@0
SF -.8(To)108 96 S(ol \255 do something interesting).8 E F1 -1.2(To)72
768 S 174.06(olset 2023-07-23)1.2 F(1)202.87 E 0 Cg EP
%%Trailer
...

/Times-* should not appear above.

-- 
Regards,
Christian

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.23.0-1

[Christian Franke]

Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> ...
>>> - Man pages could no longer be formatted with a specific font. Only
>>>    header and footer lines use the selected font then, the rest stays
>>>    at the default font 'T':
>> […]
>>> Intentional change or regression?
>> IDK, ask upstream.
>
> OK, will do. Didn't find anything similar here: 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=groff
>
> IMO a regression, obvious in the postscript output:
>
> $ groff -man -T ps -f H <<EOF
> .TH TOOL "1" "2023-07-23" "Toolset" "Section"
> .SH NAME
> Tool \- do something interesting
> EOF
> ...
> %%EndPageSetup
> /F0 10/Helvetica-Oblique@0 SF -.4(TO)72 48 S(OL).4 E/F1 10/Helvetica@0
> SF 174.995(\(1\) Section).5 F F0 -.4(TO)177.775 G(OL).4 E F1(\(1\)).5 E
> /F2 10.95/Times-Bold@0 SF -.219(NA)72 84 S(ME).219 E/F3 10/Times-Roman@0
> SF -.8(To)108 96 S(ol \255 do something interesting).8 E F1 -1.2(To)72
> 768 S 174.06(olset 2023-07-23)1.2 F(1)202.87 E 0 Cg EP
> %%Trailer
> ...
>
> /Times-* should not appear above.

Found the issue: T(imes) is unconditionally stored to a variable which 
is used by SH macro:

$ cat /usr/share/groff/1.23.0/tmac/an.tmac
...
.de1 SH
.  fam \\*[an*body-family]
...
.ds an*body-family T \" Times
...

Fixed upstream in:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/tmac/an.tmac?id=6e03ad16ea8ed053fbffb5296d2670d6cdb4e931

Postscript output looks sane then:

%%EndPageSetup
/F0 10/Helvetica-Oblique@0 SF -.4(TO)72 48 S(OL).4 E/F1 10/Helvetica@0
SF 174.995(\(1\) Section).5 F F0 -.4(TO)177.775 G(OL).4 E F1(\(1\)).5 E
/F2 10.95/Helvetica-Bold@0 SF(NAME)72 84 Q F1 -1.2(To)108 96 S
(ol \255 do something interesting)1.2 E -1.2(To)72 768 S 174.06
(olset 2023-07-23)1.2 F(1)202.87 E 0 Cg EP
%%Trailer

-- 
Regards,
Christian

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.23.0-1

[ASSI]

Christian Franke via Cygwin writes:
> groff-perl is installed, otherwise groff would complain about a
> missing DESC file. Installing urw-base35-fonts-legacy fixes this,
> thanks.
>
> It is IMO not obvious for the occasional groff user that this package
> is needed.

I've added a manual dependency to the package hint file.


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.23.0-1

[ASSI]

Christian Franke via Cygwin writes:
>>>> - Man pages could no longer be formatted with a specific font. Only
>>>>    header and footer lines use the selected font then, the rest stays
>>>>    at the default font 'T':
> Fixed upstream in:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/tmac/an.tmac?id=6e03ad16ea8ed053fbffb5296d2670d6cdb4e931

So this will be in the next upstream release, which I have an inkling is
not too far off…


Regards,
Achim.
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