[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these paths are outdated in my installation: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

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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
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