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$Id: NEWS,v 1.10 2015/11/05 16:58:20 schwarze Exp $
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This file lists the most important changes in the mdocml.bsd.lv distribution.
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Changes in version 1.13.3, released on March 13, 2015
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--- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
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* When a manual is missing from an outdated database, let man(1)
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show it anyway, using a KISS file system lookup as a fallback.
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* Use this to always provide man(1), even without database support.
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* Fatal errors no longer exist. If a file can be opened, mandoc
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will produce some output; at worst, the output may be almost empty.
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* New -Wunsupp message level.
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--- POTENTIONALLY SECURITY RELEVANT BUGFIXES ---
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* Fix a potential write buffer overrun on incomplete string conditionals.
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http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/roff.c#rev1.241
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* Fix a potential write buffer overrun on backslash at EOF in a conditional.
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http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/roff.c#rev1.247
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* Fix a use after free sometimes hit when validation deletes a block.
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http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/mdoc_macro.c#rev1.180
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--- MAJOR FUNCTIONALLY RELEVANT BUGFIXES ---
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* Let man(1) show manuals for the current architecture by default,
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and support the MACHINE environment variable.
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* Fix the man(1) and apropos(1) -m option, it didn't work at all.
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* Do not spawn a pager when there is no output.
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* In makewhatis(8), fix detection of hardlinked manuals on platforms
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having padding in struct inodev (typically 64bit platforms).
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--- PORTABILITY IMPROVEMENTS ---
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* Ignore O_CLOEXEC when the operating system doesn't provide it.
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* Avoid forward reference to enum type which violates ISO C99.
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* Support homebrew-style linking on Mac OS X.
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--- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
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* lookup: Accept digit+letter and "n" as section names in man(1),
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and consistently handle digit+letter in file name extensions.
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* lookup: Speed up -s/-S by using the "mlinks" rather than the "keys" table.
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* output: Insert horizontal lines between formatted manual pages.
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* input: New stricter and more resilient UTF-8 parser.
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* mdoc(7): Refactor block rewinding for simpler and more robust parsing.
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* man(7): Use the -Ios option when .TH has less than four arguments.
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* tbl(7): Implement the "center" option.
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* tbl(7): New option and format parsers, improved in many respects.
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* roff(7): Basic implementation of the \o escape sequence (overstrike),
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and improved rendering of overstrikes in PostScript and PDF output.
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* Message improvements, in particular for, but not restricted to,
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eqn(7), tbl(7), and wrong numbers of arguments in mdoc(7) and man(7),
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in various cases also improving output generated by invalid input.
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* Delete the -V option. It serves no purpose but keeps confusing people.
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* gmdiff: Minimal support for Heirloom roff.
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--- RELIABILITY BUGFIXES ---
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* tbl(7): Fix a read buffer overrun on 'f' at EOL in a layout.
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* roff(7): Fix a read buffer overrun on incomplete numerical conditions.
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* mdoc(7): Fix a NULL pointer access on .Nd followed by an explicit block.
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* mdoc(7): Fix a NULL pointer access on .It Xo without .Xc.
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* mdoc(7): Fix a NULL pointer access on .Eo without a tail.
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* mdoc(7): Fix a NULL pointer access in the validation of empty .St macros.
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* man(7)/tbl(7): Fix a NULL pointer access on .TS right after .TP.
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* tbl(7): Fix a NULL pointer access on layout lines without any cells.
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* eqn(7): Fix NULL pointer accesses in the terminal formatter.
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* roff(7): Fix a NULL pointer access on trailing \s-/\s+ without an argument.
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* gz: Fix a potential NULL pointer access after waitpid() failure.
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* roff(7): Don't let the modulo operator divide by zero.
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* input: Fix an assertion failure on certain invalid UTF-8 input.
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* terminal output: Allow arbitrary depth of the font stack (assertion fix).
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* mdoc(7): Fix assertion failures and endless loops on invalid block closing.
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* mdoc(7): Fix an assertion failure on .Bl .Sm not followed by .It.
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* mdoc(7): Fix an assertion failure on .Bl -column ... .El .Ta.
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* tbl(7): Fix assertion failures by macros inside table data,
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but do not throw away the macro arguments.
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* Prevent certain kinds of unreasonable input from producing excessive
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output, in one case caused by unsigned integer underflow.
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* Fix a potential memory leak in makewhatis(8) on very long filenames.
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--- MINOR BUGFIXES ---
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* mdoc(7): Fix parsing of badly nested blocks with multiple identical blocks.
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* mdoc(7): Support negative indentations for displays and lists.
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* mdoc(7): Don't mistreat negative .sp arguments as large positive ones.
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* mdoc(7): Some spacing fixes for .Eo/.Ec.
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* man(7): Support negative horizontal widths.
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* man(7): Do not print out invalid .IP arguments.
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* man(7): Correctly handle scaling units after .PD.
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* man(7): Support .RE with an argument.
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* man(7): Fix restoring indentation after .RS with large negative arguments.
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* tbl(7): Prevent tables from breaking the filling of preceding text.
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* tbl(7): Fix vertical spacing at the beginning of tables.
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* tbl(7): Parser and formatter fixes for line drawing and font modifiers.
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* tbl(7): Correct handling of blank data lines.
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* eqn(7): Add sometimes missing whitespace before equation output.
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* roff(7): Fix vertical scaling, most of it was wrong.
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* roff(7): Slightly improve \w width measurements.
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* roff(7): Accept the historic aliases \s10 to \s39 for \s(10 to \s(39.
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* roff(7): Correctly escape quotes when expanding macro arguments.
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* roff(7): Correctly handle scaling units in numerical expressions,
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and some other improvements to the parsing of numerical expressions.
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* roff(7): Three minor fixes with respect to evaluation of conditionals.
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* roff(7): Let .it accept numerical expressions, not just constants.
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* mandoc_char(7): Correct some character names and renderings.
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* If earlier files set a non-zero exit status, never reset it to zero.
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--- THANKS TO ---
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* Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for yet more testing with afl (the American
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Fuzzy Lop security fuzzer), again resulting in many bug reports.
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* Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD) for suggesting the main new feature (man(1) file
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system lookup) and for reporting an important bug (pager without output).
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* Theo Buehler for an important bug report (-s/-S slowness)
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and for proposing a nice new feature (lines between pages).
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* Jason McIntyre for an important bug report (hardlink detection)
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and multiple documentation patches.
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* Pascal Stumpf (OpenBSD) and Alessandro de Laurenzis for
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important bug reports (architecture and man -m, respectively).
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* Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for proposing a new feature (man(7) -Ios),
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a bug report, and release testing.
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* Anthony Bentley, Daniel Dickman, Ted Unangst (OpenBSD) and
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Kristaps Dzonsons (bsd.lv) for source code patches and bug reports.
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* Christian Weisgerber (OpenBSD) for more than half a dozen bug reports.
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* Carsten Kunze (Heirloom troff) for bug reports and release testing.
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* Antoine Jacoutot (OpenBSD) for release testing.
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* Alexis Hildebrandt (Homebrew), Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD),
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Jonathan Perkin (SmartOS), Pedro Giffuni (FreeBSD), Svyatoslav
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Mishyn (Crux Linux), Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD), Jan Stary, Patrick
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Keshishian, Sebastien Marie, and Steffen Nurpmeso for bug reports.
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Changes in version 1.13.2, released on December 13, 2014
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--- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
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* Include an implementation of man(1), the manual page viewer.
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* Unified set of command line option, each one supported by all
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command names, including new options -a (format all), -c (no
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pager), -h (synopsis only), and -w (list filenames).
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* Support the MANPAGER and PAGER environment variables.
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* Support gzip'ed manuals by the whole toolset, even as .so targets.
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* Support UTF-8 and Latin-1 input by the whole toolset, delete preconv(1).
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* Switch the default output mode from -Tascii to -Tlocale.
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* Improve -Tascii output for Unicode escape sequences.
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* Let the -Thtml output mode produce polyglot HTML5.
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* Many improvements for eqn(7), in particular in-line equations,
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MathML output in -Thtml mode, and much improved terminal formatting.
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--- PORTABILITY IMPROVEMENTS ---
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* Change the build sequence to the usual ./configure; make; make install.
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* Support ./configure.local for build customizations.
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* Autodetect wchar, sqlite3, and manpath support.
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* Provide a fallback version of fts(3) for systems lacking it.
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* Support choosing alternative binary and manual names.
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--- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
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* Rudimentary implementation of the e, x, and z tbl(7) layout
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modifiers to equalize, maximize, and ignore the width of columns.
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* Implement font modifiers in tbl(7) layouts.
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* Allow comma-separated options in the tbl(7) options line.
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* Parse and ignore the .pl (page length) roff(7) request.
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* Implement .An -[no]split for the mdoc(7) -Thtml output mode.
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* Support bold italic font in PostScript and PDF output.
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* Warn about commas in function arguments and parentheses in function names.
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* Warn about botched .Xr ordering and punctuation below SEE ALSO.
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* Warn about AUTHORS sections without .An macros.
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* Warn about attempts to call non-callable macros.
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* New developer documentation manual page mandoc_headers(3).
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--- BUGFIXES ---
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* Fix read buffer overrun sometimes triggered by trailing whitespace.
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* Fix read buffer overrun triggered by certain invalid \H sequences.
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* Fix NULL pointer access triggered by .Bl without any arguments.
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* Fix NULL pointer access triggered by .It Nm Fo without .Fc.
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* Fix NULL pointer access triggered by .Sh Xo .Sh without .Xc.
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* Fix NULL pointer access triggered by missing .Nm.
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* Fix an assertion triggered by .It right after .El.
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* Fix an assertion triggered by .Ec without preceding .Eo.
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* Fix an assertion triggered by .Sm or .Db with multiple arguments.
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* Fix assertion failures triggered by very large width arguments.
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* Fix a division by zero in the roff(7) parser.
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* Prevent negative arguments to .ll from causing integer underflow.
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* Correctly autodetect source format even when .Dd is preceded by .ll.
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* Multiple fixes with respect to .Bd and .Bl -offset and -width.
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* Many bugfixes with respect to scaling units.
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* Multiple fixes with respect to delimiter handling by in-line macros.
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* Multiple fixes with respect to .Pf.
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* Make \c work properly in no-fill mode.
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* Stricter syntax checking of Unicode character names.
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--- THANKS TO ---
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* Kristaps Dzonsons for rewriting the eqn(7) parser, implementing
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HTML5 and MathML output, and various other code contributions.
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* Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for extensive testing with afl (the
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American Fuzzy Lop security fuzzer) resulting in many bug reports.
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* Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD), Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD), Daniel
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Dickman, Doug Hogan, Jason McIntyre, Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD),
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and Martin Natano for source code patches.
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* Carsten Kunze (Heirloom troff), Daniel Levai (Slackware),
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Garrett D'Amore (illumos), Giovanni Becchis, Matthew Dempsky,
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Stuart Henderson, Ted Unangst, Todd Miller (OpenBSD), Thomas
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Klausner (NetBSD), Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD), Justin Haynes,
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Marcus Merighi, Sebastien Marie, Steffen Nurpmeso and Theo Buehler
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for bug reports.
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Changes in version 1.13.1, released on August 10, 2014
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--- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
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* A complete apropos(1)/makewhatis(8)/man.cgi(8) suite
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based on SQLite3 is now included.
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* The roff(7) parser now provides an almost complete implementation
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of numerical expressions.
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* Warning and error messages have been improved in many ways.
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Almost all fatal errors were downgraded to normal errors and some
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even to warnings. Almost all messages now mention the macro where
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the issue is detected and many indicate the workaround employed.
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The mandoc(1) manual now includes a list explaining all messages.
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--- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
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* The roff(7) parser now supports the .ami (append to macro with
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indirectly specified name), .as (append to user-defined
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string), .dei (define macro with indirectly specified name),
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.ll (line length), and .rr (remove register) requests.
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* The roff(7) parser now supports string comparison and numerical
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conditionals in the .if and .ie requests.
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* The roff parser now fully supports the \B (validate numerical
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expression) and partially supports the \w (measure text width)
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escape sequences.
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* The terminal formatter now supports the \: (optional line break)
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escape sequence.
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* The roff parser now supports expansion of user-defined strings
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involving indirect references.
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* The roff(7) parser now handles some pre-defined read-only
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number registers that occur in the pod2man(1) preamble.
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* For backward compatibility, the mdoc(7) parser and formatters
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now support the obsolete macros .En, .Es, .Fr, and .Ot.
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* The mdoc(7) formatter non partially supports .Bd -centered.
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* tbl(7) now handles leading and trailing vertical lines.
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* The build system now provides fallback versions of strcasestr(3)
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and strsep(3) for systems lacking them.
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* The mdoc(7) manual now explains how various standards
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supported by the .St macro are related to each other.
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--- BUGFIXES ---
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* In the roff(7) parser, several bugs were fixed with respect
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to closing conditional blocks on macro lines.
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* Parsing of roff(7) identifiers and escape sequences was improved
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in multiple respects.
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* In the mdoc(7) parser, the handling of defective document
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prologues was improved in multiple ways.
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* The mdoc(7) parser no longer skips content before the first section
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header, and it no longer deletes non-.% content from .Rs blocks.
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* In the mdoc(7) parser, a crash was fixed related to weird .Sh headers.
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* In the mdoc(7) parser, handling of .Sm with missing or invalid
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arguments was corrected.
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* In the mdoc(7) parser, trailing punctuation at the end of partial
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implicit macros no longer triggers end-of-sentence spacing.
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* In the terminal formatter, two crashes were fixed: one triggered by
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excessive indentation and another by excessively long .Nm arguments.
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* In the terminal formatter, a floating point rounding bug was
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fixed that sometimes caused an off-by-one error in indentation.
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* In the UTF-8 formatter, rendering of accents, breakable hyphens,
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and non-breakable spaces was corrected.
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* In the HTML formatter, encoding of special characters was
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corrected in multiple respects.
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* In the mdoc(7) formatter, rendering of .Ex and .Rv was
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improved for various edge cases.
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* In the mdoc(7) formatter, handling of empty .Bl -inset item
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heads was improved.
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* In the man(7) formatter, some bugs were fixed with respect
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to same-line detection in the context of .TP and .nf macros,
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and the indentation of .IP and .TP blocks was improved.
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* The mandoc(3) library no longer prints to stderr.
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--- THANKS TO ---
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Abhinav Upadhyay (NetBSD), Andreas Voegele, Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD),
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Christian Weisgerber (OpenBSD), Havard Eidnes (NetBSD), Jan Stary,
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Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD), Jeremie Courreges-Anglas (OpenBSD),
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Joerg Sonnenberger (NetBSD), Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado (OpenBSD),
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Marc Espie (OpenBSD), Matthias Scheler (NetBSD), Pascal Stumpf (OpenBSD),
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Paul Onyschuk (Alpine Linux), Sebastien Marie, Steffen Nurpmeso,
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Stuart Henderson (OpenBSD), Ted Unangst (OpenBSD), Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD),
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Thomas Klausner (NetBSD), and Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD)
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for reporting bugs and missing features.
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Changes in version 1.12.3, released on December 31, 2013
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* In the mdoc(7) SYNOPSIS, line breaks and hanging indentation
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now work correctly for .Fo/.Fa/.Fc and .Fn blocks.
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Thanks to Franco Fichtner for doing part of the work.
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* The mdoc(7) .Bk macro got some addititonal bugfixes.
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* In mdoc(7) macro arguments, double quotes can now be quoted
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by doubling them, just like in man(7).
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Thanks to Tsugutomo ENAMI for the patch.
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* At the end of man(7) macro lines, end-of-sentence spacing
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now works. Thanks to Franco Fichtner for the patch.
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* For backward compatibility, the man(7) parser now supports the
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man-ext .UR/.UE (uniform resource identifier) block macros.
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* The man(7) parser now handles closing blocks that are not open
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more gracefully.
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* The man(7) parser now ignores blank lines right after .SH and .SS.
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* In the man(7) formatter, reset indentation when leaving a block,
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not just when entering the next one.
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* The roff(7) .nr request now supports incrementing and decrementing
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number registers and stops parsing the number right before the
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first non-digit character.
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* The roff(7) parser now supports the alternative escape sequence
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syntax \C'uXXXX' for Unicode characters.
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* The roff(7) parser now parses and ignores the .fam (font family)
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and .hw (hyphenation points) requests and the \d and \u escape
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sequences.
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* The roff(7) manual got a new ESCAPE SEQUENCE REFERENCE.
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Changes in version 1.12.2, released on Oktober 5, 2013
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* The mdoc(7) to man(7) converter, to be called as mandoc -Tman,
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is now fully functional.
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* The mandoc(1) utility now supports the -Ios (default operating system)
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input option, and the -Tutf8 output mode now actually works.
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* The mandocdb(8) utility no longer truncates existing databases when
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starting to build new ones, but only replaces them when the build
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actually succeeds.
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* The man(7) parser now supports the PD macro (paragraph distance),
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and (for GNU man-ext compatibility only) EX (example block) and EE
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(example end). Plus several bugfixes regarding indentation, line
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breaks, and vertical spacing, and regarding RS following TP.
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* The roff(7) parser now supports the \f(BI (bold+italic) font escape,
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the \z (zero cursor advance) escape and the cc (change control
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character) and it (input line trap) requests. Plus bugfixes regarding
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the \t (tab) escape, nested escape sequences, and conditional requests.
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* In mdoc(7), several bugs were fixed related to UTF-8 output of quoting
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enclosures, delimiter handling, list indentation and horizontal and
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vertical spacing, formatting of the Lk, %U, and %C macros, plus some
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bugfixes related to the handling of syntax errors like badly nested
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font blocks, stray Ta macros outside column lists, unterminated It Xo
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blocks, and non-text children of Nm blocks.
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* In tbl(7), the width of horizontal spans and the vertical spacing
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around tables was corrected, and in man(7) files, a crash was fixed
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that was triggered by some particular unclosed T{ macros.
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* For mandoc developers, we now provide a tbl(3) library manual and
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gmdiff, a very small, very simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output
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comparison tool.
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* Provide this NEWS file.
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Changes in version 1.12.1, released on March 23, 2012
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* Significant work on apropos(1) and mandocdb(8). These tools are now
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much more robust. A whatis(1) implementation is now handled as an
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apropos(1) mode. These tools are also able to minimally handle
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pre-formatted pages, that is, those already formatted by another
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utility such as GNU troff.
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* The man.cgi(7) script is also now available for wider testing.
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It interfaces with mandocdb(8) manuals cached by catman(8).
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HTML output is generated on-the-fly by libmandoc or internal
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methods to convert pre-formatted pages.
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* The mailing list archive for the discuss and tech lists are being
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hosted by Gmane at gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user and
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gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel, respectively.
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Changes in version 1.12.0, released on October 8, 2011
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* This version features a new, work-in-progress mandoc(1) output mode:
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-Tman. This mode allows a system maintainer to distribute man(7)
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media for older systems that may not natively support mdoc(7), such
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as old Solaris systems.
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* The -Ofragment option was added to mandoc(1)'s -Thtml and -Txhtml modes.
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* While adding features, an apropos(1) utility has been merged from the
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mandoc-tools sandbox. This interfaces with mandocdb(8) for semantic
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search of manual content. apropos(1) is different from the traditional
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apropos primarily in allowing keyword search (such as for functions,
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utilities, etc.) and regular expressions. Note that the calling
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syntax for apropos is likely to change as it settles down.
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* In documentation news, the mdoc(7) and man(7) manuals have been
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made considerably more readable by adding MACRO OVERVIEW sections, by
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moving the gory details of the LANGUAGE SYNTAX to the roff(7) manual,
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and by moving the very technical MACRO SYNTAX sections down to the
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bottom of the page.
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* Furthermore, for tbl(7), the -Tascii mode horizontal spacing of tables
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was rewritten completely. It is now compatible with groff(1), both
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with and without frames and rulers.
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* Nesting of indented blocks is now supported in man(7), and several
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bugs were fixed regarding indentation and alignment.
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* The page headers in mdoc(7) are now nicer for very long titles.
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Changes in version 1.11.7, released on September 2, 2011
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* Added demandoc(1) utility for stripping away macros and escapes.
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This replaces the historical deroff(1) utility.
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* Also improved the mdoc(7) and man(7) manuals.
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Changes in version 1.11.6, released on August 16, 2011
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* Handling of tr macro in roff(7) implemented. This makes Perl
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documentation much more readable. Hyphenation is also now enabled in
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man(7) format documents. Many other general improvements have been
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implemented.
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Changes in version 1.11.5, released on July 24, 2011
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* Significant eqn(7) improvements. mdocml can now parse arbitrary eqn
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input (although few GNU extensions are accepted, nor is mixing
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low-level roff with eqn). See the eqn(7) manual for details.
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For the time being, equations are rendered as simple in-line text.
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The equation parser satisfies the language specified in the
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Second Edition User's Guide:
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http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/v7man/eqn/eqn2e.ps
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Changes in version 1.11.4, released on July 12, 2011
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* Bug-fixes and clean-ups across all systems, especially in mandocdb(8)
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and the man(7) parser. This release was significantly assisted by
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participants in OpenBSD's c2k11. Thanks!
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Changes in version 1.11.3, released on May 26, 2011
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* Introduce locale-encoding of output with the -Tlocale output option and
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Unicode escaped-character input. See mandoc(1) and mandoc_char(7),
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respectively, for details. This allows for non-ASCII characters (e.g.,
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\[u5000]) to be rendered in the locale's encoding, if said environment
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supports wide-character encoding (if it does not, -Tascii is used
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instead). Locale support can be turned off at compile time by removing
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-DUSE_WCHAR in the Makefile, in which case -Tlocale is always a synonym
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for -Tascii.
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* Furthermore, multibyte-encoded documents, such as those in UTF-8, may
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be on-the-fly recoded into mandoc(1) input by using the newly-added
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preconv(1) utility. Note: in the future, this feature may be
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integrated into mandoc(1).
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Changes in version 1.11.2, released on May 12, 2011
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* Corrected some installation issues in version 1.11.1.
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* Further migration to libmandoc.
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* Initial public release (this utility is very much under development)
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of mandocdb(8). This utility produces keyword databases of manual
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content, which features semantic querying of manual content.
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Changes in version 1.11.1, released on April 4, 2011
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* The earlier libroff, libmdoc, and libman soup have been merged into
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a single library, libmandoc, which manages all aspects of parsing
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real manuals, from line-handling to tbl(7) parsing.
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* As usual, many general fixes and improvements have also occurred.
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In particular, a great deal of redundancy and superfluous code has
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been removed with the merging of the backend libraries.
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* see also the changes in 1.10.10
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Changes in version 1.10.10, March 20, 2011, NOT released
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* Initial eqn(7) functionality is in place. For the time being,
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this is limited to the recognition of equation blocks;
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future version of mdocml will expand upon this framework.
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Changes in version 1.10.9, released on January 7, 2011
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* Many back-end fixes have been implemented: argument handling (quoting),
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man(7) improvements, error/warning classes, and many more.
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* Initial tbl(7) functionality (see the "TS", "TE", and "T&" macros in
|
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the roff(7) manual) has been merged from tbl.bsd.lv. Output is still
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minimal, especially for -Thtml and -Txhtml, but manages to at least
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display data. This means that mandoc(1) now has built-in support
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for two troff preprocessors via libroff: soelim(1) and tbl(1).
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Changes in version 1.10.8, released on December 24, 2010
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* Overhauled the -Thtml and -Txhtml output modes. They now display
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readable output in arbitrary browsers, including text-based ones like
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lynx(1). See HTML and XHTML manuals in the DOCUMENTATION section
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for examples. Attention: available style-sheet classes have been
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considerably changed! See the example.style.css file for details.
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Lastly, libmdoc and libman have been cleaned up and reduced in size
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and complexity.
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* see also the changes in 1.10.7
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Changes in version 1.10.7, December 6, 2010, NOT released
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Significant improvements merged from OpenBSD downstream, including:
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* many new roff(7) components,
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* in-line implementation of troff's soelim(1),
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* broken-block handling,
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* overhauled error classifications, and
|
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* cleaned up handling of error conditions.
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Changes in version 1.10.6, released on September 27, 2010
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* Calling conventions for mandoc(1) have changed: -W improved and -f
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deprecated.
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* Non-ASCII characters are also now uniformly discarded.
|
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* Lots of documentation improvements.
|
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* Many incremental fixes accomodating for groff's more interesting
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productions.
|
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* Lastly, pod2man(1) preambles are now fully accepted after some
|
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considerable roff(7) and special character support.
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Changes in version 1.10.5, released on July 27, 2010
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* Primarily a bug-fix and polish release, but including -Tpdf support
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|
in mandoc(1) by way of "Summer of Code". Highlights:
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* fix "Sm" and "Bd" handling
|
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* fix end-of-sentence handling for embedded sentences
|
|
* polish man(7) documentation
|
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* document all mdoc(7) macros
|
|
* polish mandoc(1) -Tps output
|
|
* lots of internal clean-ups in character escapes
|
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* un-break literal contexts in man(7) documents
|
|
* improve -Thtml output for -man
|
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* add mandoc(1) -Tpdf support
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Changes in version 1.10.4, released on July 12, 2010
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* Lots of features developed during both "Summer of Code" and the
|
|
OpenBSD c2k10 hackathon:
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* minimal "ds" roff(7) symbols are supported
|
|
* beautified SYNOPSIS section output
|
|
* acceptance of scope-block breakage in mdoc(7)
|
|
* clarify error message status
|
|
* many minor bug-fixes and formatting issues resolved
|
|
* see also changes in 1.10.3
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Changes in version 1.10.3, June 29, 2010, NOT released
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|
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* variable font-width and paper-size support in mandoc(1) -Tps output
|
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* "Bk" mdoc(7) support
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Changes in version 1.10.2, released on June 19, 2010
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|
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* Small release featuring text-decoration in -Tps output,
|
|
a few minor relaxations of errors, and some optimisations.
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Changes in version 1.10.1, released on June 7, 2010
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|
|
* This primarily focusses on the "Bl" and "It" macros described in
|
|
mdoc(7). Multi-line column support is now fully compatible with groff,
|
|
as are implicit list entries for columns.
|
|
* Removed manuals(7) in favour of http://manpages.bsd.lv.
|
|
* The way we handle the SYNOPSIS section (see the SYNOPSIS documentation
|
|
in MANUAL STRUCTURE) has also been considerably simplified compared
|
|
to groff's method.
|
|
* Furthermore, the -Owidth=width output option has been added to -Tascii,
|
|
see mandoc(1).
|
|
* Lastly, initial PostScript output has been added with the -Tps option
|
|
to mandoc(1). It's brutally simple at the moment: fixed-font, with no
|
|
font decorations.
|
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|
Changes in version 1.10.0, released on May 29, 2010
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|
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* Release consisting of the results from the m2k10 hackathon and up-merge
|
|
from OpenBSD. This requires a significant note of thanks to Ingo
|
|
Schwarze (OpenBSD) and Joerg Sonnenberger (NetBSD) for their hard work,
|
|
and again to Joerg for hosting m2k10. Highlights (mostly cribbed from
|
|
Ingo's m2k10 report) follow in no particular order:
|
|
* a libroff preprocessor in front of libmdoc and libman stripping out
|
|
roff(7) instructions;
|
|
* end-of-sentence (EOS) detection in free-form and macro lines;
|
|
* correct handling of tab-separated columnar lists in mdoc(7);
|
|
* improved main calling routines to optionally use mmap(3) for better
|
|
performance;
|
|
* cleaned up exiting when invoked as -Tlint or over multiple files
|
|
with -fign-errors;
|
|
* error and warning message handling re-written to be unified for
|
|
libroff, libmdoc, and libman;
|
|
* handling of badly-nested explicit-scoped macros;
|
|
* improved free-form text parsing in libman and libmdoc;
|
|
* significant GNU troff compatibility improvements in -Tascii,
|
|
largely in terms of spacing;
|
|
* a regression framework for making sure the many fragilities of GNU
|
|
troff aren't trampled in subsequent work;
|
|
* support for -Tascii breaking at hyphens encountered in free-form text;
|
|
* and many more minor fixes and improvements
|
|
|
|
Changes in version 1.9.25, released on May 13, 2010
|
|
|
|
* Fixed handling of "\*(Ba" escape.
|
|
* Backed out -fno-ign-chars (pointless complexity).
|
|
* Fixed erroneous breaking of literal lines.
|
|
* Fixed SYNOPSIS breaking lines before non-initial macros.
|
|
* Changed default section ordering.
|
|
* Most importantly, the framework for end-of-sentence double-spacing is
|
|
in place, now implemented for the "end-of-sentence, end-of-line" rule.
|
|
* This is a stable roll-back point before the mandoc hackathon in Rostock!
|
|
|
|
Changes in version 1.9.24, released on May 9, 2010
|
|
|
|
* Rolled back break-at-hyphen.
|
|
* -DUGLY is now the default (no feature splits!).
|
|
* Free-form text is not de-chunked any more: lines are passed
|
|
whole-sale into the front-end, including whitespace.
|
|
* Added mailing lists.
|
|
|
|
Changes in version 1.9.23, released on April 7, 2010
|
|
|
|
* mdocml has been linked to the OpenBSD build.
|
|
* This version incorporates many small changes, mostly from patches
|
|
by OpenBSD, allowing crufty manuals to slip by with warnings instead
|
|
of erroring-out.
|
|
* Some subtle semantic issues, such as punctuation scope, have also
|
|
been fixed.
|
|
* Lastly, some issues with -Thtml have been fixed, which prompted an
|
|
update to the online manual pages style layout.
|
|
|
|
Changes in version 1.9.22, released on March 31, 2010
|
|
|
|
* Adjusted merge of the significant work by Ingo Schwarze
|
|
in getting "Xo" blocks (block full implicit, e.g., "It"
|
|
for non-columnar lists) to work properly. This isn't
|
|
enabled by default: you must specify -DUGLY as a compiler
|
|
flag (see the Makefile for details).
|
|
|
|
Changes in version 1.9.20, released on March 30, 2010
|
|
|
|
* More efforts to get roff instructions in man(7) documents under
|
|
control. Note that roff instructions embedded in line-scoped,
|
|
next-line macros (e.g. "B") are not supported.
|
|
* Leading punctuation for mdoc(7) macros, such as "Fl ( ( a",
|
|
are now correctly handled.
|
|
|
|
Changes in version 1.9.18, released on March 27, 2010
|
|
|
|
* Many fixes (largely pertaining to scope)
|
|
and improvements (e.g., handling of apostrophe-control macros,
|
|
which fixes the strange "BR" seen in some macro output)
|
|
to handling roff instructions in man(7) documents.
|
|
|
|
Changes in version 1.9.17, released on March 25, 2010
|
|
|
|
* Accept perlpod(1) standard preamble.
|
|
* Also accept (and discard) "de", "dei", "am", "ami", and "ig"
|
|
roff macro blocks.
|
|
|
|
Changes in version 1.9.16, released on March 22, 2010
|
|
|
|
* Inspired by patches and bug reports by Ingo Schwarze,
|
|
allowed man(7) to accept non-printing elements to be nested
|
|
within next-line scopes, such as "br" within "B" or "TH",
|
|
which is valid roff.
|
|
* Longsoon architecture also noted and Makefile cleaned up.
|
|
|
|
Changes in version 1.9.15, released on February 18, 2010
|
|
|
|
* Moved to our new BSD.lv home.
|
|
* XHTML is now an acceptable output mode for mandoc(1);
|
|
* "Xr" made more compatible with groff;
|
|
* "Vt" fixed when invoked in SYNOPSIS;
|
|
* "\\" escape removed;
|
|
* end-of-line white-space detected for all lines;
|
|
* subtle bug fixed in list display for some modes;
|
|
* compatibility layer checked in for compilation in diverse
|
|
UNIX systems;
|
|
* and column lengths handled correctly.
|
|
|
|
For older releases, see the ChangeLog files
|
|
in http://mdocml.bsd.lv/snapshots/ .
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