[groff] 03/14: NEWS: Add items.

[G. Branden Robinson]

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit f77c14f4b99c20dca990c89791e1d09638c4069b
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sun Jan 23 18:10:15 2022 +1100

    NEWS: Add items.
    
    * ...for default output change in `ab` (Savannah #61070).
    * ...and error-handling changes in `PDFPIC` (commit 8bff992449).
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@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ o New requests 'stringdown' and 'stringup' are available.  
These change
   regular naming convention of the special character escapes sequences
   for accented letters.
 
+o The `ab` request no longer writes "User Abort." to the standard error
+  stream if given no arguments.
+
 nroff
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@@ -122,6 +125,18 @@ o The hyphenation patterns for English have been updated 
using the
   new patterns likely _will_ change the automatic hyphenation break
   points of your English documents.
 
+o The pdfpic macro package, which provides the `PDFPIC` macro, no longer
+  aborts upon encountering trouble.  Instead, it reports an error and
+  abandons processing of its argument(s).  It is also more sensitive to
+  other kinds of problems and handles them the same way, by issuing a
+  diagnostic and returning.  If you wish `PDFPIC` to abort document
+  processing immediately upon error, you can append an `ab` request to
+  the package's error-handling macro.
+
+    .am pdfpic@error
+    .  ab
+    ..
+
 o The new rfc1345 macro package, contributed by Dorai Sitaram, defines
   special character glyph names implementing RFC 1345 mnemonics (plus
   some additions from Vim, which itself uses RFC 1345 for its digraphs).