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      1 Release 1.3
      2 -----------
      3 
      4 Added line numbering capabilities, with controls.
      5 
      6 Footnotes and endnotes can now be referenced by line number.
      7 
      8 Added ability to adjust vertical position of the title that appears
      9 on the first endnotes page.
     10 
     11 Footnotes can run on when being referenced by line number.
     12 
     13 Footnotes now have a post-footnote spacing option, for adding
     14 a little space between footnotes.
     15 
     16 Extended LIST so it accepts alpha, ROMAN and roman enumerators.
     17 
     18 Added margin notes capability.
     19 
     20 Added refer support.
     21 
     22 Added bibliography page support.
     23 
     24 Added QUOTE_AUTOLEAD and BLOCKQUOTE_AUTOLEAD, so user can have
     25 quotes and blockquotes leaded differently from running text.
     26 
     27 Change: the input line immediately after FOOTNOTE OFF must be
     28 entered as a literal continuation of the line prior to FOOTNOTE,
     29 including any initial spaces or punctuation marks.  This allows
     30 for hassle-free placing of footnote markers in running text either
     31 before or after punctuation marks.
     32 
     33 Release 1.2-f
     34 -------------
     35 
     36 Added ADD_SPACE, to permit users to insert space at the top of
     37 running text (after the first page) when using the docprocessing
     38 macros.
     39 
     40 Releases 1.2-a and 1.2-b
     41 ------------------------
     42 
     43 My personal email address has changed.  1.2-a and -b have been
     44 updated to reflect that.  Additionally, I made some small changes
     45 to the documentation.
     46 
     47 Release 1.2
     48 -----------
     49 
     50 As of 1.2, the recommended version of groff to use with mom has
     51 been bumped up from groff, 1.18 to groff, 1.19.2.  Although mom will
     52 continue to work with groff, 1.18, her handling of .FAM(ILY) and .FT
     53 is now slightly different, therefore users of groff 1.18 may have to
     54 update documents created with mom so that every .FAM(ILY) request is
     55 followed by a .FT request before any text is input, otherwise mom
     56 will set the text after .FAM(ILY) in Courier (until she encounters a
     57 .FT request).  People running groff, >= 1.19.2 don't have to worry
     58 about this, but I recommend that, regardless of which version you're
     59 running, you have a look at the document entries for FAMILY and FT
     60 in order to see how mom will be handling .FAMILY and .FT from now
     61 on.
     62 
     63 When used with groff >=1.19.2, mom now emits warnings if a style
     64 hasn't been registered, or if a font style doesn't exist in the
     65 current family.  Invalid .FAM(ILY) calls now use a "fallback" font"
     66 (although no warning is issued).  The fallback is user-settable.
     67 
     68 Mom's macro file, om.tmac, now sets up a fairly extensive list of
     69 font "styles," thus expanding the range of arguments that can be
     70 passed to .FT (formerly, just R, I, B and BI, unless users had
     71 already rolled their own solution to the problem of extensive type
     72 families containing fonts like condensed, demibold, black, light, etc).
     73 Users are advised to read the documentation sections on FAM(ILY),
     74 FT and FALLBACK_FONT, as well as the new appendix section, "Adding
     75 PostScript fonts to groff", for information on using mom's style
     76 extensions (and how to disable them, should they conflict with a
     77 user's present groff site-font/devps setup).
     78 
     79 A new macro, FALLBACK_FONT, has been added.  It controls not only
     80 the fallback font for invalid .FAMILY calls, but also whether mom
     81 aborts on invalid .FT calls after issuing a warning, or continues
     82 processing using the fallback.
     83 
     84 Release 1.1.9
     85 -------------
     86 
     87 Added the (optional) generation of cover pages and document cover
     88 pages, plus a full suite of control macros for all cover page
     89 elements.
     90 
     91 Added new reference macros that apply to covers: COVERTITLE,
     92 DOC_COVERTITLE, COPYRIGHT and MISC.
     93 
     94 The need for TRAP OFF/TRAP to deal with ELs and TNs that fall at
     95 the bottom page has been obsoleted.  However, both EL and TN, when
     96 invoked in any "nofill" mode (LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER, or the L | R | C
     97 arguments to TAB_SET or ST when no QUAD argument is given), must now
     98 have the input line preceding the EL or TN terminated by \c.  Fill
     99 modes do not have this requirement, i.e. no \c is required.
    100 
    101 Footnotes that occur inside quotes, blockquotes and epigraphs now
    102 work just like regular footnotes, with no user intervention
    103 required.  This obsoletes the macro BREAK_QUOTE.
    104 
    105 Removed all aliases that used the word COLOUR.  Users must use
    106 COLOR wherever COLOR is needed.  COLOUR, as a replacement/alias, is
    107 no longer supported.
    108 
    109 NEWPAGE, which used to be an alias of .bp, is now its own macro.
    110 
    111 Release 1.1.8
    112 -------------
    113 
    114 Added text color support.  Users can now define or initialize a color,
    115 and afterwards change text color with an inline of the form
    116 \*[<colorname>], or with the macro .COLOR.  In document processing,
    117 the docelement tag control macros have been expanded to include
    118 _COLOR, e.g. .HEAD_COLOR <predefined colorname> will colorize
    119 heads, PAGENUM_COLOR <predefined colorname) will colorize page
    120 numbering, etc.
    121 
    122 Adjusted vertical placement of hyphens around page numbering when
    123 PAGENUM_STYLE is DIGIT, ROMAN or ALPHA so that the hyphens appear
    124 properly centered on the page numbering character.
    125 
    126 Changed tab handling in document processing so that tab structures
    127 are preserved from page to page and column to column.
    128 
    129 Release 1.1.7-a
    130 ---------------
    131 
    132 Increased the flexibility of SMARTQUOTES so that they handle quoting
    133 styles by language, entered as a 2-digit language code argument to
    134 SMARTQUOTES.  See docs.
    135 
    136 Re-wrote the DOCTYPE LETTER macros so that DATE, TO and FROM can be
    137 entered in any order the user wishes, with output that matches
    138 input.  (Should have done this in the first place.)
    139 
    140 Release 1.1.7
    141 -------------
    142 
    143 Finally got around to writing "list" macros.  See the docs.
    144 
    145 Added German-style lowered double quotes and two styles of
    146 guillemets to SMARTQUOTES.
    147 
    148 Added macro SIZE, intended to be called inline as \*[SIZE <n>].
    149 This brings mom's inline size change syntax into line with her other
    150 inlines.  \*S[<n>] can still be used for the same thing.
    151 
    152 The file elvis_syntax (for elvis prior to 2.2h) is no longer being
    153 maintained.  It was getting messy and long in the tooth.  The
    154 official elvis syntax file is elvis_syntax.new, which works for
    155 2.2h of elvis (and higher, one hopes).  elvis users are encouraged
    156 to update to 2.2h or higher.
    157 
    158 Release 1.1.6-e
    159 ---------------
    160 
    161 Extended handling of draft and revision numbers and strings in
    162 headers/footers for increased flexibility.  It's possible now to
    163 have just about any combo of DRAFT_STRING, DRAFT, REVISION_STRING
    164 and REVISION, and have them come out in headers/footers as one
    165 intuitively expects/wants.
    166 
    167 Also added a new set of syntax highlighting rules for the vi clone,
    168 elvis.  Version 2-2h-beta of elvis finally made possible the
    169 highlighting of \*[...] inline escapes, whether or not they're
    170 separated from surrounding text by spaces.  This is a terrific
    171 improvement in elvis, and makes for greatly improved readability of
    172 mom files.
    173 
    174 Release 1.1.6-b - 1.1.6d
    175 ------------------------
    176 
    177 Trivial changes to documentation and some cleanups of the main
    178 om.tmac file, including:
    179 
    180 Added a .bp after .if \\n[#START]=1 in FOOTER.  Without it,
    181 in document processing mode, documents that use *none* of the
    182 docprocessing tags (yes, there are times when users want to do
    183 this) ignored the footer trap.
    184 
    185 Changed register #DOCHEADER_LEAD_ADJ to string
    186 $DOCHEADER_LEAD_ADJ.  This means that .DOCHEADER_LEAD no longer
    187 requires a unit of measure; points is assumed.
    188 
    189 Release 1.1.6-b
    190 ---------------
    191 
    192 Added a SHIM macro that calculates and moves to the next "legal"
    193 baseline during document processing (useful if user starts playing
    194 around with spacing/leading on a page and needs to get the leading
    195 back on track).
    196 
    197 Fixed handling of DOCHEADER OFF <distance> so that the first line of
    198 running text falls on a "legal" baseline when <distance> is given.
    199 
    200 Release 1.1.6-a
    201 ---------------
    202 
    203 Problem with groff 1.19.1 fixed by Werner (.return handled arguments
    204 incorrectly).
    205 
    206 Fixed handling of page numbering style restoration in endnotes, so
    207 that (collated) docs have the correct page numbering style when the
    208 style has been changed for endnotes (with ENDNOTES_PAGENUM_STYLE).
    209 
    210 DOC_TITLE has been made for use exclusively with DOCTYPE DEFAULT.
    211 
    212 Fixed handling of headers/footers with respect to endnotes.  Now,
    213 when either headers or footers are on, mom picks up the correct
    214 page header/footer on the last page prior to ENDNOTES, gets the
    215 pageheaders correct for endnotes pages *including the last one*, and
    216 picks up correct page headers/footers for the subsequent docs after
    217 COLLATE.
    218 
    219 
    220 Release 1.1.6
    221 -------------
    222 
    223 BAD NEWS: mom appears to be crippled in some areas when run with
    224 groff 1.19.1.  Pending a solution, mom must be run with groff 1.18
    225 
    226 ***NEW***
    227 
    228 Added TOC capabilities.
    229 
    230 Extended range of endnotes control macros.  See the documentation
    231 on endnotes control macros.
    232 
    233 Added a new DOC_TITLE macro, to deal with collated documents that
    234 have an overall title, while each doc has its own separate doc
    235 title (from TITLE).
    236 
    237 
    238 Release 1.1.5
    239 -------------
    240 
    241 ***NEW***
    242 
    243 Added James Ramsey's CHAPTER_TITLE macro as well as control macros to
    244 go with it.  Thanks James.  Also from James came a patch to handle
    245 START differenty which has been incorporated into om.tmac.  Thanks
    246 again, James.
    247 
    248 Some bits and pieces of the docs have been tweaked, but nothing
    249 changed.  Hopefully, the changes will make parts of the docs easier to
    250 read and navigate.
    251 
    252 ***FIXES***
    253 
    254 o \*[RULE]
    255 
    256 o broken draft and revision in docheaders
    257 
    258 o post-epigraph spacing in TYPEWRITE
    259 
    260 o header spacing in TYPEWRITE
    261 
    262 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    263 
    264 Release 1.1.4
    265 -------------
    266 
    267 ***SIGNIFICANT CHANGE***
    268 .IX is now deprecated, although it will continue to work as before.
    269 The new form is .IQ (Indent Quit).  Groff will emit a message advising
    270 users to update their docs.
    271 
    272 ***NEW***
    273 Four new inlines to deal with horizontal and vertical movements:
    274 
    275     o \*[FWD n]
    276     o \*[BCK n]
    277     o \*[UP n]
    278     o \*[DOWN n]
    279 
    280 All four require a unit of measure after n.  These inlines are similar
    281 to the older \*[FPn], \*[BPn], \*[ALDn] and \*[RLDn], however they're
    282 not restricted to points, and any value can be entered for n (the older
    283 forms -- which still work -- were restricted to 1 - 36).
    284 
    285 ***CHANGED***
    286 Inline kerning can now be accomplished with \*[BU n] and \*[FU n], where
    287 n, after the space, is the desired number of kern units.  The older
    288 forms \*[BUn] and \*[FUn] still work, up to 36 units.
    289 
    290 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    291 
    292 Release 1.1.3c
    293 --------------
    294 
    295 ***NEW***
    296 A new macro -- ENDNOTES_HDRFTR_CENTER -- added so that mom's default
    297 behaviour of not printing the header center string when DOCTYPE is
    298 CHAPTER can be disabled (i.e. she will print the center string).  The
    299 macro is user-called with ENDNOTES_HEADER_CENTER or
    300 ENDNOTES_FOOTER_CENTER.
    301 
    302 ***FIXES***
    303 PAD now works as advertised when fill mode is on.
    304 
    305 ENDNOTES no longer disables printing of footnotes on last page of
    306 document body.
    307 
    308 Release 1.1.3
    309 -------------
    310 
    311 ***SIGNIFICANT CHANGE -- PLEASE TAKE NOTE***
    312 As of 1.1.3, groff must be >= 1.18.
    313 
    314 ***NEW***
    315 Added endnotes functionality to mom, along with a slew of macros to
    316 control how mom prints endnotes pages.  See the html documentation.
    317 
    318 ***NEW***
    319 Added inline \*[RULE], which draws a rule to the full measure of the
    320 current line length ( to be used in place of \h'\n(.lu' ).  Weight of the
    321 rule is dependent on the point size of type when \#[RULE] is called.
    322 
    323 ***FIXES***
    324 PAD -- works more intuitively now when the pad string contains inline
    325 escapes for font, point size, etc.
    326 
    327 UNDERLINE -- fixed character translations of digraphs so they get
    328 underlined properly.  Also fixed a bug that was causing some footnotes
    329 to get underlined when UNDERLINE was on in the body of the document.
    330 
    331 ***UPDATES***
    332 Html documentation
    333 elvis_syn
    334 
    335 Release 1.1.2a
    336 --------------
    337 
    338 ***SIGNIFICANT CHANGE -- PLEASE TAKE NOTE***
    339 In order to help mom toward full groffship, the macro .PS has been
    340 renamed to .PT_SIZE, and the alias .TS (for .TAB_SET) has been removed.
    341 .PS and .TS are keywords used by pic and tbl respectively, and the mom
    342 macros of the same name were in conflict.
    343 
    344 Release 1.1.2
    345 -------------
    346 
    347 ***IT'S OFFICIAL!***
    348 mom is now an official part of the groff.  New releases will be
    349 incorporated into the groff package.  I'll still be posting each new
    350 release on the mom homepage, so there's no need to download all of the
    351 most recent version of groff just to get a newer mom. :)
    352 
    353 ***CHANGES***
    354 Fixed default footer separator rule adjustment so that it's closer to
    355 the advertised "4 points above the tallest ascender in the footer."
    356 
    357 Added more stuff to the elvis_syn file.  Still wouldn't mind someone
    358 contributing some vim/emacs syntax highlighting.
    359 
    360 Added .cflags 4 /\(em to om.tmac.  By default, mom now obligingly
    361 breaks after / and \(en.
    362 
    363 ***NEW***
    364 Macro(s): HEADER_RECTO
    365           HEADER_VERSO
    366 With these macros, users can now define single-string recto/verso
    367 headers/footers.  HEADER_RECTO (or FOOTER_RECTO) can be used to create
    368 a one-part header/footer (instead of mom's default three-parters) that
    369 appears on every page if RECTO_VERSO is OFF or, if RECTO_VERSO is on, if
    370 no HEADER_VERSO (or FOOTER_VERSO) has been defined.  If a HEADER_VERSO
    371 (or FOOTER_VERSO) is defined and RECTO_VERSO is on, _RECTO prints on
    372 even pages and _VERSO on odd pages.
    373 
    374 Added macro DRAFT_WITH_PAGENUMBER so user can have draft/revision
    375 info attached to the pagenumber in COPYSTYLE DRAFT, instead of having
    376 it HEADER center.  Always having it HEADER center was creating problems
    377 with long doc titles, esp. with PRINTSTYLE TYPEWRITE (which is when
    378 COPYSTYLE DRAFT is most likely to be used).
    379 
    380 ***FIXES***
    381 No more "can't break line" warnings in DOCTYPE LETTER.
    382 
    383 If no REVISION number is given, Rev. 0 no longer appears HEADER_CENTER
    384 in COPYSTYLE DRAFT
    385 
    386 PAGENUM_STYLE now works as advertised.
    387 
    388 Release 1.1.1
    389 -------------
    390 
    391 ***CHANGES***
    392 Main macro file renamed to om.tmac, in keeping with current groff
    393 policy.
    394 
    395 Now okay to use groff mailing list for mom-related posts
    396 
    397 ***NEW***
    398 Toggle macro -- BR_AT_LINE_KERN.  When on, automatically deposits
    399 a break whenever .RW or .EW are invoked.  Very useful when kerning
    400 whole lines of rag copy.
    401 
    402 ***NEW***
    403 Toggle macro -- PAGENUM_ON_FIRST_PAGE.  Normally, when FOOTERS are
    404 being used instead of HEADERS, mom doesn't print the page number at
    405 the top of the first page of a doc, or the first page of collated docs.
    406 PAGENUM_ON_FIRST_PAGE allows user to get mom to put the page number on
    407 "first" pages if that's desired.
    408 
    409 ***NEW***
    410 Macro -- BREAK_QUOTE -- to deal with problem of footnoted quotes and
    411 blockquotes that cross a page or column.
    412 
    413 ***NEW***
    414 New argument to AUTOLEAD -- FACTOR.  With FACTOR, you can, if you
    415 wish, enter a factor by which AUTOLEAD multiplies the point size when
    416 calculating lead automatically.
    417 
    418 Improvements
    419 ------------
    420 
    421 PAPER now has a much larger selection of common paper sizes.
    422 
    423 \*[ALD], \*[RLD], \*[FP] and \*[BP] now accept increments of quarter
    424 points (expressed as decimal fractions).  \*[RLD1.75], for example,
    425 reverses 1-3/4 points up on the line.
    426 
    427 HEADER_SIZE now available to PRINTSTYLE TYPEWRITE.  This was necessary
    428 to deal with the problem of excessively long HEADER_LEFT, _CENTER or
    429 _RIGHT strings.
    430 
    431 Fixes
    432 -----
    433 
    434 T_MARGIN -- can be set before or after LS or AUTOLEAD
    435 SS       -- remains constant regardless of WS
    436 WS       -- no longer affects SS
    437 TI       -- now works as expected even when called while another indent
    438             type is in effect
    439 COLLATE  -- small fixes
    440 
    441 Broken .RW and .EW fixed.
    442 
    443 String tabs now behave properly when set from within tabs.
    444 
    445 UNDERLINE_QUOTES (for PRINTSTYLE TYPEWRITE) are now, in fact, on by
    446 default as the docs state.
    447