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Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the rev
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Ted Harding |
Subject: |
Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse? |
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Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:26:36 +0100 |
[See at end ... ]
On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 18:05 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 03:57:19PM +0100, Deri James wrote:
> > To avoid making existing documents render incorrectly I propose to allow
> > the
> > existing behaviour to be selected. Adding this to the NEWS file:-
> >
> > ============================================================================
> > PDFPIC has now been corrected, so the behaviour is the same whether you use
> > the postscript or pdf drivers. However, this means that any documents which
> > were written using the old behaviour will not be rendered correctly if
> > using
> > the pdf driver with the new version.
> >
> > The change would mean that documents which relied on the previous behaviour
> > are likely to have a gap underneath the image which was not there before.
> > If
> > you see this effect there are three ways you can restore the previous
> > behaviour (listed in order of priority):-
> >
> > A) Add the line ".nr PDFPIC_LEGACY 1" to the document before the first call
> > to
> > .PDFPIC.
> >
> > B) If it is just a single document which exhibits this behaviour you can
> > run
> > groff adding "-rPDFPIC_LEGACY=1" to the command-line.
>
> I don't have a specific name suggestion, and I'm aware that this is a
> bikeshed, but can I suggest a more explicit variable name? Otherwise
> the next time some old behaviour needs to be switchably deprecated we're
> in for some confusion.
>
> (In my third year in college, I lived in "New Court", built in 1825.)
[ ... therefore, along with Ralph Corderoy and Peter Schaffter,
you constitute a Trinity ... ]
- [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Bernhard Fisseni, 2018/04/01
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/04/02
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Deri James, 2018/04/10
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/04/10
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Peter Schaffter, 2018/04/10
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Colin Watson, 2018/04/10
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?,
Ted Harding <=
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2018/04/10
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Deri James, 2018/04/10