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1 Id: NEWS,v 1.4 2013/12/31 11:28:20 schwarze Exp
3 This file lists the most important changes in the mdocml.bsd.lv distribution.
5 Changes in version 1.12.3, released on December 31, 2013
7 * In the mdoc(7) SYNOPSIS, line breaks and hanging indentation
8 now work correctly for .Fo/.Fa/.Fc and .Fn blocks.
9 Thanks to Franco Fichtner for doing part of the work.
10 * The mdoc(7) .Bk macro got some addititonal bugfixes.
11 * In mdoc(7) macro arguments, double quotes can now be quoted
12 by doubling them, just like in man(7).
13 Thanks to Tsugutomo ENAMI for the patch.
14 * At the end of man(7) macro lines, end-of-sentence spacing
15 now works. Thanks to Franco Fichtner for the patch.
16 * For backward compatibility, the man(7) parser now supports the
17 man-ext .UR/.UE (uniform resource identifier) block macros.
18 * The man(7) parser now handles closing blocks that are not open
19 more gracefully.
20 * The man(7) parser now ignores blank lines right after .SH and .SS.
21 * In the man(7) formatter, reset indentation when leaving a block,
22 not just when entering the next one.
23 * The roff(7) .nr request now supports incrementing and decrementing
24 number registers and stops parsing the number right before the
25 first non-digit character.
26 * The roff(7) parser now supports the alternative escape sequence
27 syntax \C'uXXXX' for Unicode characters.
28 * The roff(7) parser now parses and ignores the .fam (font family)
29 and .hw (hyphenation points) requests and the \d and \u escape
30 sequences.
31 * The roff(7) manual got a new ESCAPE SEQUENCE REFERENCE.
33 Changes in version 1.12.2, released on Oktober 5, 2013
35 * The mdoc(7) to man(7) converter, to be called as mandoc -Tman,
36 is now fully functional.
37 * The mandoc(1) utility now supports the -Ios (default operating system)
38 input option, and the -Tutf8 output mode now actually works.
39 * The mandocdb(8) utility no longer truncates existing databases when
40 starting to build new ones, but only replaces them when the build
41 actually succeeds.
42 * The man(7) parser now supports the PD macro (paragraph distance),
43 and (for GNU man-ext compatibility only) EX (example block) and EE
44 (example end). Plus several bugfixes regarding indentation, line
45 breaks, and vertical spacing, and regarding RS following TP.
46 * The roff(7) parser now supports the \f(BI (bold+italic) font escape,
47 the \z (zero cursor advance) escape and the cc (change control
48 character) and it (input line trap) requests. Plus bugfixes regarding
49 the \t (tab) escape, nested escape sequences, and conditional requests.
50 * In mdoc(7), several bugs were fixed related to UTF-8 output of quoting
51 enclosures, delimiter handling, list indentation and horizontal and
52 vertical spacing, formatting of the Lk, %U, and %C macros, plus some
53 bugfixes related to the handling of syntax errors like badly nested
54 font blocks, stray Ta macros outside column lists, unterminated It Xo
55 blocks, and non-text children of Nm blocks.
56 * In tbl(7), the width of horizontal spans and the vertical spacing
57 around tables was corrected, and in man(7) files, a crash was fixed
58 that was triggered by some particular unclosed T{ macros.
59 * For mandoc developers, we now provide a tbl(3) library manual and
60 gmdiff, a very small, very simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output
61 comparison tool.
62 * Provide this NEWS file.
64 Changes in version 1.12.1, released on March 23, 2012
66 * Significant work on apropos(1) and mandocdb(8). These tools are now
67 much more robust. A whatis(1) implementation is now handled as an
68 apropos(1) mode. These tools are also able to minimally handle
69 pre-formatted pages, that is, those already formatted by another
70 utility such as GNU troff.
71 * The man.cgi(7) script is also now available for wider testing.
72 It interfaces with mandocdb(8) manuals cached by catman(8).
73 HTML output is generated on-the-fly by libmandoc or internal
74 methods to convert pre-formatted pages.
75 * The mailing list archive for the discuss and tech lists are being
76 hosted by Gmane at gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user and
77 gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel, respectively.
79 Changes in version 1.12.0, released on October 8, 2011
81 * This version features a new, work-in-progress mandoc(1) output mode:
82 -Tman. This mode allows a system maintainer to distribute man(7)
83 media for older systems that may not natively support mdoc(7), such
84 as old Solaris systems.
85 * The -Ofragment option was added to mandoc(1)'s -Thtml and -Txhtml modes.
86 * While adding features, an apropos(1) utility has been merged from the
87 mandoc-tools sandbox. This interfaces with mandocdb(8) for semantic
88 search of manual content. apropos(1) is different from the traditional
89 apropos primarily in allowing keyword search (such as for functions,
90 utilities, etc.) and regular expressions. Note that the calling
91 syntax for apropos is likely to change as it settles down.
92 * In documentation news, the mdoc(7) and man(7) manuals have been
93 made considerably more readable by adding MACRO OVERVIEW sections, by
94 moving the gory details of the LANGUAGE SYNTAX to the roff(7) manual,
95 and by moving the very technical MACRO SYNTAX sections down to the
96 bottom of the page.
97 * Furthermore, for tbl(7), the -Tascii mode horizontal spacing of tables
98 was rewritten completely. It is now compatible with groff(1), both
99 with and without frames and rulers.
100 * Nesting of indented blocks is now supported in man(7), and several
101 bugs were fixed regarding indentation and alignment.
102 * The page headers in mdoc(7) are now nicer for very long titles.
104 Changes in version 1.11.7, released on September 2, 2011
106 * Added demandoc(1) utility for stripping away macros and escapes.
107 This replaces the historical deroff(1) utility.
108 * Also improved the mdoc(7) and man(7) manuals.
110 Changes in version 1.11.6, released on August 16, 2011
112 * Handling of tr macro in roff(7) implemented. This makes Perl
113 documentation much more readable. Hyphenation is also now enabled in
114 man(7) format documents. Many other general improvements have been
115 implemented.
117 Changes in version 1.11.5, released on July 24, 2011
119 * Significant eqn(7) improvements. mdocml can now parse arbitrary eqn
120 input (although few GNU extensions are accepted, nor is mixing
121 low-level roff with eqn). See the eqn(7) manual for details.
122 For the time being, equations are rendered as simple in-line text.
123 The equation parser satisfies the language specified in the
124 Second Edition User's Guide:
125 http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/v7man/eqn/eqn2e.ps
127 Changes in version 1.11.4, released on July 12, 2011
129 * Bug-fixes and clean-ups across all systems, especially in mandocdb(8)
130 and the man(7) parser. This release was significantly assisted by
131 participants in OpenBSD's c2k11. Thanks!
133 Changes in version 1.11.3, released on May 26, 2011
135 * Introduce locale-encoding of output with the -Tlocale output option and
136 Unicode escaped-character input. See mandoc(1) and mandoc_char(7),
137 respectively, for details. This allows for non-ASCII characters (e.g.,
138 \[u5000]) to be rendered in the locale's encoding, if said environment
139 supports wide-character encoding (if it does not, -Tascii is used
140 instead). Locale support can be turned off at compile time by removing
141 -DUSE_WCHAR in the Makefile, in which case -Tlocale is always a synonym
142 for -Tascii.
143 * Furthermore, multibyte-encoded documents, such as those in UTF-8, may
144 be on-the-fly recoded into mandoc(1) input by using the newly-added
145 preconv(1) utility. Note: in the future, this feature may be
146 integrated into mandoc(1).
148 Changes in version 1.11.2, released on May 12, 2011
150 * Corrected some installation issues in version 1.11.1.
151 * Further migration to libmandoc.
152 * Initial public release (this utility is very much under development)
153 of mandocdb(8). This utility produces keyword databases of manual
154 content, which features semantic querying of manual content.
156 Changes in version 1.11.1, released on April 4, 2011
158 * The earlier libroff, libmdoc, and libman soup have been merged into
159 a single library, libmandoc, which manages all aspects of parsing
160 real manuals, from line-handling to tbl(7) parsing.
161 * As usual, many general fixes and improvements have also occurred.
162 In particular, a great deal of redundancy and superfluous code has
163 been removed with the merging of the backend libraries.
164 * see also the changes in 1.10.10
166 Changes in version 1.10.10, March 20, 2011, NOT released
168 * Initial eqn(7) functionality is in place. For the time being,
169 this is limited to the recognition of equation blocks;
170 future version of mdocml will expand upon this framework.
172 Changes in version 1.10.9, released on January 7, 2011
174 * Many back-end fixes have been implemented: argument handling (quoting),
175 man(7) improvements, error/warning classes, and many more.
176 * Initial tbl(7) functionality (see the "TS", "TE", and "T&" macros in
177 the roff(7) manual) has been merged from tbl.bsd.lv. Output is still
178 minimal, especially for -Thtml and -Txhtml, but manages to at least
179 display data. This means that mandoc(1) now has built-in support
180 for two troff preprocessors via libroff: soelim(1) and tbl(1).
182 Changes in version 1.10.8, released on December 24, 2010
184 * Overhauled the -Thtml and -Txhtml output modes. They now display
185 readable output in arbitrary browsers, including text-based ones like
186 lynx(1). See HTML and XHTML manuals in the DOCUMENTATION section
187 for examples. Attention: available style-sheet classes have been
188 considerably changed! See the example.style.css file for details.
189 Lastly, libmdoc and libman have been cleaned up and reduced in size
190 and complexity.
191 * see also the changes in 1.10.7
193 Changes in version 1.10.7, December 6, 2010, NOT released
195 Significant improvements merged from OpenBSD downstream, including:
196 * many new roff(7) components,
197 * in-line implementation of troff's soelim(1),
198 * broken-block handling,
199 * overhauled error classifications, and
200 * cleaned up handling of error conditions.
202 Changes in version 1.10.6, released on September 27, 2010
204 * Calling conventions for mandoc(1) have changed: -W improved and -f
205 deprecated.
206 * Non-ASCII characters are also now uniformly discarded.
207 * Lots of documentation improvements.
208 * Many incremental fixes accomodating for groff's more interesting
209 productions.
210 * Lastly, pod2man(1) preambles are now fully accepted after some
211 considerable roff(7) and special character support.
213 Changes in version 1.10.5, released on July 27, 2010
215 * Primarily a bug-fix and polish release, but including -Tpdf support
216 in mandoc(1) by way of "Summer of Code". Highlights:
217 * fix "Sm" and "Bd" handling
218 * fix end-of-sentence handling for embedded sentences
219 * polish man(7) documentation
220 * document all mdoc(7) macros
221 * polish mandoc(1) -Tps output
222 * lots of internal clean-ups in character escapes
223 * un-break literal contexts in man(7) documents
224 * improve -Thtml output for -man
225 * add mandoc(1) -Tpdf support
227 Changes in version 1.10.4, released on July 12, 2010
229 * Lots of features developed during both "Summer of Code" and the
230 OpenBSD c2k10 hackathon:
231 * minimal "ds" roff(7) symbols are supported
232 * beautified SYNOPSIS section output
233 * acceptance of scope-block breakage in mdoc(7)
234 * clarify error message status
235 * many minor bug-fixes and formatting issues resolved
236 * see also changes in 1.10.3
238 Changes in version 1.10.3, June 29, 2010, NOT released
240 * variable font-width and paper-size support in mandoc(1) -Tps output
241 * "Bk" mdoc(7) support
243 Changes in version 1.10.2, released on June 19, 2010
245 * Small release featuring text-decoration in -Tps output,
246 a few minor relaxations of errors, and some optimisations.
248 Changes in version 1.10.1, released on June 7, 2010
250 * This primarily focusses on the "Bl" and "It" macros described in
251 mdoc(7). Multi-line column support is now fully compatible with groff,
252 as are implicit list entries for columns.
253 * Removed manuals(7) in favour of http://manpages.bsd.lv.
254 * The way we handle the SYNOPSIS section (see the SYNOPSIS documentation
255 in MANUAL STRUCTURE) has also been considerably simplified compared
256 to groff's method.
257 * Furthermore, the -Owidth=width output option has been added to -Tascii,
258 see mandoc(1).
259 * Lastly, initial PostScript output has been added with the -Tps option
260 to mandoc(1). It's brutally simple at the moment: fixed-font, with no
261 font decorations.
263 Changes in version 1.10.0, released on May 29, 2010
265 * Release consisting of the results from the m2k10 hackathon and up-merge
266 from OpenBSD. This requires a significant note of thanks to Ingo
267 Schwarze (OpenBSD) and Joerg Sonnenberger (NetBSD) for their hard work,
268 and again to Joerg for hosting m2k10. Highlights (mostly cribbed from
269 Ingo's m2k10 report) follow in no particular order:
270 * a libroff preprocessor in front of libmdoc and libman stripping out
271 roff(7) instructions;
272 * end-of-sentence (EOS) detection in free-form and macro lines;
273 * correct handling of tab-separated columnar lists in mdoc(7);
274 * improved main calling routines to optionally use mmap(3) for better
275 performance;
276 * cleaned up exiting when invoked as -Tlint or over multiple files
277 with -fign-errors;
278 * error and warning message handling re-written to be unified for
279 libroff, libmdoc, and libman;
280 * handling of badly-nested explicit-scoped macros;
281 * improved free-form text parsing in libman and libmdoc;
282 * significant GNU troff compatibility improvements in -Tascii,
283 largely in terms of spacing;
284 * a regression framework for making sure the many fragilities of GNU
285 troff aren't trampled in subsequent work;
286 * support for -Tascii breaking at hyphens encountered in free-form text;
287 * and many more minor fixes and improvements
289 Changes in version 1.9.25, released on May 13, 2010
291 * Fixed handling of "\*(Ba" escape.
292 * Backed out -fno-ign-chars (pointless complexity).
293 * Fixed erroneous breaking of literal lines.
294 * Fixed SYNOPSIS breaking lines before non-initial macros.
295 * Changed default section ordering.
296 * Most importantly, the framework for end-of-sentence double-spacing is
297 in place, now implemented for the "end-of-sentence, end-of-line" rule.
298 * This is a stable roll-back point before the mandoc hackathon in Rostock!
300 Changes in version 1.9.24, released on May 9, 2010
302 * Rolled back break-at-hyphen.
303 * -DUGLY is now the default (no feature splits!).
304 * Free-form text is not de-chunked any more: lines are passed
305 whole-sale into the front-end, including whitespace.
306 * Added mailing lists.
308 Changes in version 1.9.23, released on April 7, 2010
310 * mdocml has been linked to the OpenBSD build.
311 * This version incorporates many small changes, mostly from patches
312 by OpenBSD, allowing crufty manuals to slip by with warnings instead
313 of erroring-out.
314 * Some subtle semantic issues, such as punctuation scope, have also
315 been fixed.
316 * Lastly, some issues with -Thtml have been fixed, which prompted an
317 update to the online manual pages style layout.
319 Changes in version 1.9.22, released on March 31, 2010
321 * Adjusted merge of the significant work by Ingo Schwarze
322 in getting "Xo" blocks (block full implicit, e.g., "It"
323 for non-columnar lists) to work properly. This isn't
324 enabled by default: you must specify -DUGLY as a compiler
325 flag (see the Makefile for details).
327 Changes in version 1.9.20, released on March 30, 2010
329 * More efforts to get roff instructions in man(7) documents under
330 control. Note that roff instructions embedded in line-scoped,
331 next-line macros (e.g. "B") are not supported.
332 * Leading punctuation for mdoc(7) macros, such as "Fl ( ( a",
333 are now correctly handled.
335 Changes in version 1.9.18, released on March 27, 2010
337 * Many fixes (largely pertaining to scope)
338 and improvements (e.g., handling of apostrophe-control macros,
339 which fixes the strange "BR" seen in some macro output)
340 to handling roff instructions in man(7) documents.
342 Changes in version 1.9.17, released on March 25, 2010
344 * Accept perlpod(1) standard preamble.
345 * Also accept (and discard) "de", "dei", "am", "ami", and "ig"
346 roff macro blocks.
348 Changes in version 1.9.16, released on March 22, 2010
350 * Inspired by patches and bug reports by Ingo Schwarze,
351 allowed man(7) to accept non-printing elements to be nested
352 within next-line scopes, such as "br" within "B" or "TH",
353 which is valid roff.
354 * Longsoon architecture also noted and Makefile cleaned up.
356 Changes in version 1.9.15, released on February 18, 2010
358 * Moved to our new BSD.lv home.
359 * XHTML is now an acceptable output mode for mandoc(1);
360 * "Xr" made more compatible with groff;
361 * "Vt" fixed when invoked in SYNOPSIS;
362 * "\\" escape removed;
363 * end-of-line white-space detected for all lines;
364 * subtle bug fixed in list display for some modes;
365 * compatibility layer checked in for compilation in diverse
366 UNIX systems;
367 * and column lengths handled correctly.
369 For older releases, see the ChangeLog files
370 in http://mdocml.bsd.lv/snapshots/ .