[groff] 02/04: Motivate ms default footnote length change better.

[G. Branden Robinson]

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit 265ab631c9b8ff1686b0713381b2fcf180ae55c7
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Jan 6 13:19:17 2021 +1100

    Motivate ms default footnote length change better.
---
 ChangeLog | 2 ++
 NEWS      | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1cd9e22..1654a14 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -150,6 +150,8 @@
        as V6 Unix (1975), AT&T ms actually used a footnote line length
        of 11/12ths of the text line length instead[2].
 
+       Heirloom Doctools and neatroff ms also use this default.
+
        * tmac/s.tmac: Set default footnote line length to 11/12ths of
        the text line length.
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 00355b3..7763cfb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ o The doc (mdoc) macro package now honors the HY register 
as the an
 
 o The s (ms) macro package has changed the default footnote line length
   (\n[FL]) from 5/6ths of the text line length (\n[LL]) to 11/12ths for
-  better compatibility with ms documents prepared with AT&T ms and its
-  descendants.
+  better compatibility with ms documents prepared with AT&T ms or its
+  descendant implementations in Heirloom Doctools and neatroff.
 
 o The s (ms) macro package has added strings, \*< and \*>, to perform
   subscripting within a paragraph.  They work analogously to the \*{ and