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Groff (GNU troff and related programs) version 1.04 is now available
for anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu as pub/gnu/groff-1.04.tar.Z
(about 1150k).  Compressed diffs from version 1.03 are available as
pub/gnu/groff.diff-1.03-1.04.Z (about 164k).

Groff includes implementations of troff, pic, eqn, tbl, refer, the
-man macros and the -ms macros, and drivers for PostScript, TeX dvi
format, and typewriter-like devices.  Also included is a modified
version of the Berkeley -me macros, and an enhanced version of the X11
xditview previewer.

New in this release is an implementation of the -mm macros contributed
by Joergen Haegg (jh@efd.lth.se).

Groff is written in C++ and requires a C++ compiler reasonably
compatible with version 2.0 of the C++ language.  I suggest GNU C++
version 1.40.3 or later.

I'm calling this a production release.  It has been about 18 months
since the first beta-test version of groff, and I believe groff is now
sufficiently reliable and functional for production use.

I shall continue to fix bugs in groff, but, apart from that, I do not
plan to do much work on it in the near future (I've spent three years
on it, and that's enough).  However, I hope that groff users will
continue to contribute enhancements.  The things I would most like to
see are:

- complete documentation;

- grap (a pic preprocessor for typesetting graphs);

- a page-makeup postprocessor similar to pm (see `Computing Systems',
  2:2);

- an ASCII output class for pic so that pic can be integrated with
  texinfo.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who has
contributed bug reports.  Please continue to submit them to:
	bug-groff@prep.ai.mit.edu

James Clark
jjc@jclark.com