# HG changeset patch # User Arun Giridhar # Date 1669196889 18000 # Node ID ed37c2b974aebd05ea82154e471cf9e6def09774 # Parent 04b63de659738b52a0ae2bf1ee338e9e386c9173 NEWS.8.md: Backed out changeset 04b63de65973 diff -r 04b63de65973 -r ed37c2b974ae etc/NEWS.8.md --- a/etc/NEWS.8.md Tue Nov 22 16:43:53 2022 -0500 +++ b/etc/NEWS.8.md Wed Nov 23 04:48:09 2022 -0500 @@ -40,12 +40,13 @@ if both are installed. Configure with `--without-pcre2` if you prefer Octave to use PCRE in this case. -### Graphical User Interface - - The GUI has a dark style and several new icons in toolbars for better visibility and higher contrast. The GUI also has a new terminal widget, and comes with more fonts for the documentation browser. +### Graphical User Interface + + ### Graphics backend - When printing, the option `-svgconvert` is now the default. If you want to @@ -117,9 +118,9 @@ implementing Matlab-style strings. This is required for other Matlab-compatibility activities as well. - *What this means for user code*: If you want to treat "foo" as a character + What this means for user code: If you want to treat "foo" as a character vector as opposed to a string object, *and* if you intend to use a future - version of Octave with string classes, then rewrite "foo" as 'foo'. If you + version of Matlab with string classes, then rewrite "foo" as 'foo'. If you need to retain the character vector behavior for "foo", you can continue to use Octave 8 with long-term support.