[groff] 18/18: NEWS: Add item regarding spacing in ms(7).

[G. Branden Robinson]

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
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commit f9e849541748cd69a82ea68941403bf1b014b706
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Apr 10 19:47:51 2023 -0500

    NEWS: Add item regarding spacing in ms(7).
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 NEWS | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3cf0b8ed8..480f8bf44 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -421,6 +421,13 @@ o The "ptx.tmac" macro file, a counterpart to the GNU 
coreutils ptx(1)
   command for generating permuted indexes, is now installed.  It has
   long been part of the source distribution.
 
+o The s (ms) macro package now enables the formatter's "no-space mode"
+  after ending displays (`DE`) and equations (`EQ`); this is to improve
+  the fidelity of rendering of historical ms(7) documents such as
+  Kernighan & Cherry's "Typesetting Mathematics".  This change means
+  that display distance spacing (the `DD` register) overrides paragraph
+  spacing (the `PD` register) instead of accumulating with it.
+
 o The s (ms) macro package supports a new string, `FR`, which defines
   the ratio of the footnote line length to the current line length.  The
   default expression is "11/12", eleven twelfths of the normal line