Re: groff 1.25 status

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:02:21 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
Message-ID	<20260713230221.f6t3rql7ipwyimbj@illithid>

Some good news.

At 2026-07-04T06:31:28-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2026-06-26T14:54:33-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Here's a list of things I'd like to get done for 1.25.
> > 
> > * Finish refactoring libgroff's `string` class for "fastidiousness"
> >   and to seize some performance improvements.  (My working copy has a
> >   revision of `string::move()` that appears to buy about a 5%
> >   improvement in total groff build time, which if my arithmetic is
> >   correct, must be an underestimate, since most of the groff build
> >   time is spent running the C++ compiler and linker, not running
> >   groff's own programs.  A better measurement would involve scrubbing
> >   from the tree the documents groff generates, then rebuilding them.
> >   I have a script to do this many times to get a "good statistical
> >   sample", but haven't run it on this change yet.)
> 
> I've completed this work for now.
> 
> > * Fix Savannah #68345: [troff] stop throwing font deprecation
> >   warnings on font names the user remaps to valid names.

Done.

> > * Fix Savannah #68309: [grohtml] want monospaced fonts back in man
> >   pages, gone in 1.22.4.

Done.

> > * Fix Savannah #68216: [PATCH] tmac/es.tmac: update/correct Spanish
> >   string translations.

Done.

> > * Fix Savannah #66987: [PATCH] [troff] refactor to kill off
> >   `ESCAPE_NEWLINE`.
> 
> This one's done and pushed.
> 
> > * Sort out the eqn(1) MathML generation problem you reported.

Filed as Savannah #68499 and done.

> > * [Fix Savannah #68407:] Incorporate Stefan Möding's pic(1)ture, as
> >   noted above.
> 
> This one's done and pushed.

Regards,
Branden

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