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-               <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="all">
-               <title>mdocml.bsd.lv</title>
-       </head>
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-                       <tr>
-                               <td>
-                                       <div class="head">
-                                               <b>mdocml</b> &#8211; mdoc macro compiler
-                                       </div>
-                               </td>
-                       </tr>
-                       <tr>
-                               <td valign="top">
-                                       <h1>
-                                       DESCRIPTION
-                                       </h1>
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+       <HEAD>
+               <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
+               <LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="index.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA="all">
+               <TITLE>mdocml | UNIX manpage compiler</TITLE>
+       </HEAD>
+       <BODY>
+               <P CLASS="head">
+                       <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/"><IMG SRC="puffy.gif" ALT="Puffy" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="91" STYLE="float: right"></A>
+                       <B>mdocml</B> &#8211; UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)
+               </P>
+               <P CLASS="subhead">
+                       Sources: <A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">current</A>,
+                       <A HREF="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A>
+                       (<A HREF="/snapshots/">archives</A>)
+               </P>
+               <H1>
+                       <A NAME="description">Description</A>
+               </H1>
+               <P>
+                       <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <I><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></I>, the roff macro
+                       package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <I><A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></I>, the predominant historical package for
+                       UNIX manuals.
+                       It is small, ISO C, <A CLASS="external" HREF="https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/isc-license/">ISC</A>-licensed, and quite fast.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       The tool set features <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>,
+                       based on the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler,
+                       to format output for UNIX terminals (with
+                       support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.  
+                       It also includes <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A>, for recoding multibyte manuals; 
+                       <A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc</A>, for emitting only text parts of manuals;
+                       <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, for indexing manuals; and
+                       <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A>, <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A>, and
+                       <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A> (via <A HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>) for semantic search of manual content.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> has predominantly been developed on OpenBSD
+                       and is both an <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</A>
+                       and a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.  
+                       We strive to support all interested free operating systems, in particular
+                       <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/">DragonFly</A>,
+                       <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</A>,
+                       <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</A>,
+                       <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.minix3.org/">Minix 3</A>,
+                       and <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU</A>/Linux,
+                       as well as all systems running the <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.pkgsrc.org/">pkgsrc</A> portable package build system.
+                       All of these projects have helped to make <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> better, by providing feedback and advice,
+                       bug reports, and patches.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       <I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.
+               </P>
+               <H2>
+                       <A NAME="sources">Sources</A>
+               </H2>
+               <P>
+                       <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in ISO C99 and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll need <A
+                       HREF="http://www.sqlite.org">sqlite3</A> to build <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> (links to whatis), 
+                       <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A>, and <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>.  
+                       To build and install into <I>/usr/local/</I>, just run <CODE>make install</CODE>.  
+                       Be careful: the <B>preconv</B>, <B>apropos</B>, and <B>whatis</B> binary names are usually taken by existing utilities.
+               </P>
+               <H2>
+                       Downstream
+               </H2>
+               <P>
+                       Several systems come bundled with <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> utilities.
+                       If your system does not appear below, the maintainers have not contacted me and it should not be considered
+                       <Q>official</Q>, so please <A HREF="#contact">contact us</A> if you plan on maintaining a downstream version!
+               </P>
+               <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Downstream Sources">
+                       <COL WIDTH="175">
+                       <COL>
+                       <TBODY>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
+                                       <TD>
+                                       <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/contrib/mdocml" CLASS="external">contrib/mdocml</A> (1.12.3 sources)
+                                       <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/lib/libmandoc" CLASS="external">lib/libmandoc</A>
+                                       <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc" CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A> (build system)
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD>FreeBSD 10.0, -CURRENT</TD>
+                                       <TD>
+                                       <A HREF="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/mdocml/" CLASS="external">contrib/mdocml</A> (1.12.1 sources)
+                                       <A HREF="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/mandoc/" CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A> (build system)
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD>FreeBSD 9.x, 8.x</TD>
+                                       <TD>
+                                       <A HREF="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A> (1.12.2 port)
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD>NetBSD</TD>
+                                       <TD>
+                                       <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/" CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A> (1.12.1 sources plus patches and build system)
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD>OpenBSD</TD>
+                                       <TD>
+                                       <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/" CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A> (1.12.3 sources under active development and build system)
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD>pkgsrc</TD>
+                                       <TD>
+                                       <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">textproc/mdocml</A> (1.12.3 port)
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD>Minix3</TD>
+                                       <TD>
+                                       <A HREF="http://git.minix3.org/?p=minix.git;a=tree;f=external/bsd/mdocml" CLASS="external">external/bsd/mdocml</A> (1.10.9 sources and build system)
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD>Alpine Linux</TD>
+                                       <TD>
+                                       <A HREF="http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/mdocml" CLASS="external">aports/main/mdocml</A> (1.12.2 port)
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                       </TBODY>
+               </TABLE>
+               <H1>
+                       <A NAME="documentation">Documentation</A>
+               </H1>
+               <P>
+                       These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current release.
+                       They are the authoritative documentation for the <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> system.
+               </P>
 
-                                       <p>
-                                       <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is a suite of tools that compile &#8220;mdoc&#8221;, the roff macro
-                                       package of the BSD manual pages.  The mission of <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is to deprecate <a
-                                       href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" class="external">groff</a>, the GNU roff implementation, for
-                                       displaying BSD mdoc pages.  groff amounts to over 60 000 lines of GPL C++ source, which is a
-                                       considerable encumbrance to BSD operating systems.
-                                       </p>
-
-                                       <p>
-                                       The core of <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is the libmdoc library, a validating scanner-parser producing
-                                       intermediate-form output from mdoc input.  libmdoc is a simple, fast library operating on memory buffers
-                                       of mdoc input.  Its intermediate output, an abstract syntax tree, is fully documented in the <span
-                                       class="man">mdoc(3)</span> reference manual.
-                                       </p>
-
-                                       <p>
-                                       There are three utilities implementing <span class="man">mdoc(3)</span>:
-                                       </p>
-
-                                       <ul>
-                                       <li><span class="man">mdocterm(1)</span> &#8211; formats mdoc input for display on the terminal
-                                       <li><span class="man">mdochtml(1)</span> &#8211; formats mdoc input as strict HTML (nascent)
-                                       <li><span class="man">mdoclint(1)</span> &#8211; validates mdoc input
-                                       <li><span class="man">mdoctree(1)</span> &#8211; prints input abstract syntax tree
-                                       </ul>
-
-                                       <p>
-                                       The <span class="man">mdocterm(1)</span> utility is intended to deprecate usage of <a
-                                       href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" class="external">groff</a> for displaying BSD manuals to the
-                                       terminal, either directly or cached as a &#8220;catman&#8221; page.
-                                       </p>
-
-                                       <p>
-                                       <span class="attn">Please submit patches!</span> Although a significant implementation exists, work
-                                       remains for the backend library and especially the front-end utilities.  See the <a
-                                       href="#contact">contact</a> information below to submit patches and bug reports.
-                                       </p>
-                               </td>
-                       </tr>
-                       <tr>
-                               <td>
-                                       <h1>
-                                       INSTALLING SOURCES
-                                       </h1>
-
-                                       <p>
-                                       Sources correctly build and install on OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux operating systems, tested variously on
-                                       i386, AMD64 and Alpha.
-                                       </p>
-
-                                       <h2>
-                                       snapshotted source
-                                       </h2>
-
-                                       <p>
-                                       CVS sources are checkedout and snapshotted with big updates.  These may be found in the <a
-                                       href="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</a> directory.
-                                       </p>
-
-                                       <p class="boxed">
-                                       % cd /tmp<br>
-                                       % ftp -V -o- http://mdocml.bsd.lv/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz | tar -zvxf -<br>
-                                       % cd mdocml<br>
-                                       % make all<br>
-                                       % make regress<br>
-                                       # make install
-                                       </p>
-
-                                       <h2>
-                                       nightly port
-                                       </h2>
-
-                                       <p>
-                                       The source snapshot is automatically converted into an OpenBSD port (ports for other BSD systems not
-                                       yet available).  These may be found in the <a href="/ports-openbsd/">/ports-openbsd/</a> directory.
-                                       You <span class="emph">must</span> have the ports tree installed.
-                                       </p>
-
-                                       <p class="boxed">
-                                       # pkg_delete mdocml<br>
-                                       # cd /usr/ports/devel/<br>
-                                       # rm -rf mdocml<br>
-                                       # ftp -V -o- http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ports-openbsd/mdocml.tar.gz | tar -zvxf -<br>
-                                       # cd mdocml<br>
-                                       # make build<br>
-                                       # make regress<br>
-                                       # make install
-                                       </p>
-                               </td>
-                       </tr>
-                       <tr>
-                               <td>
-                                       <h1>
-                                       CONTACT
-                                       </h1>
-
-                                       <p>
-                                       Please contact Kristaps, kris<a class="external"
-                                       href="http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01jt88xIsFONwVjHZmGpc4AQ==&amp;c=sb5E6ulipc-eTnpTVqI-BQ=="
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-                                       false;" title="Reveal this e-mail address">...</a>@kth.se, with questions, bug reports, patches, and so on.  
-                                       </p>
-                                       
-                                       <p>
-                                       If you'd like to submit patches, please contact us beforehand in case larger changes are pending but not
-                                       checked in.  If making a bug report, please make sure it's repeatable on the most current snapshot.
-                                       </p>
-                               </td>
-                       </tr>
-                       <tr>
-                               <td>
-                                       <div class="foot">
-                                               Copyright &#169; 2009 Kristaps D&#382;onsons, $Date: 2009/02/25 12:32:50 $
-                                       </div>
-                               </td>
-                       </tr>
-               </tbody>
-       </table>
-       </body>
-</html>
+               <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Documentation">
+                       <COL WIDTH="175">
+                       <COL>
+                       <TBODY>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos(1)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               search the manual page database
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc(1)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               emit only text of UNIX manuals
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               format and display UNIX manuals
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv(1)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               recode multibyte UNIX manuals
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.3.html">mandoc(3)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               mandoc macro compiler library
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="tbl.3.html">tbl(3)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               roff table parser library for mandoc
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn(7)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               eqn-mandoc language reference
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               man language reference
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi(7)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               cgi for manpage query and display
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">mandoc_char(7)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               mandoc special characters
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               mdoc language reference
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               roff-mandoc language reference
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl(7)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               tbl-mandoc language reference
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb(8)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               index UNIX manuals
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                       </TBODY>
+               </TABLE>
+               <H2>
+                       <A NAME="links">Supplementary Information</A>
+               </H2>
+               <UL>
+                       <LI>
+                               <A HREF="http://manpages.bsd.lv/">Practical UNIX Manuals</A>: mdoc tutorial by Kristaps Dzonsons
+                       </LI>
+                       <LI>
+                               <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/specialtopics.html#Mandoc" CLASS="external">OpenBSD porting guide</A>
+                               chapter regarding manual pages
+                       </LI>
+                       <LI>
+                               <A HREF="press.html">Publications and media coverage</A>
+                               concerning mdocml and mandoc
+                       </LI>
+                       <LI>
+                               <A HREF="http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html">History of UNIX Manpages</A>: a comprehensive overview by Kristaps Dzonsons
+                       </LI>
+               </UL>
+               <H1>
+                       <A NAME="contact">Contact</A>
+               </H1>
+               <P>
+                       Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc.  Please check the
+                       <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/TODO?cvsroot=mdocml">TODO</A> for known issues
+                       before posting.  All lists are subscription-only: send a blank e-mail to the listed address to subscribe.  Beyond that,
+                       contact Kristaps at <A HREF="http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01M6h_w7twDp58ZgH57eWC_w==&amp;c=Q2DBUt401ePlSeupJFrq_Q==" TITLE="Reveal
+                       this e-mail address">kris...</A>@bsd.lv.  Archives are available at <A HREF="http://gmane.org/" CLASS="external">Gmane</A>.
+               </P>
+               <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Mailing Lists">
+                       <COL WIDTH="175">
+                       <COL>
+                       <TBODY>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD>
+                                               disc<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
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+                                       </TD>
+                                       <TD>
+                                               bug-reports, general questions, and announcements 
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD>
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+                                       </TD>
+                                       <TD>
+                                               patches and system discussions 
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD>
+                                               sou<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
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+                                       </TD>
+                                       <TD>
+                                               source commit messages 
+                                       </TD>
+                               </TR>
+                       </TBODY>
+               </TABLE>
+               <H1>
+                       <A NAME="news">News</A>
+               </H1>
+               <P CLASS="news">
+                       xx-xx-2014: version 1.13.0
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                        The <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> tools (<A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, <A
+                       HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> (absorbing whatis), and <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A>) have been re-written to
+                       use <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.sqlite.org">sqlite3</A> as a database.
+               </P>
+               <P CLASS="news">
+                       31-12-2013: version 1.12.3
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       In the <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> SYNOPSIS, line breaks and hanging indentation
+                       now work correctly for .Fo/.Fa/.Fc and .Fn blocks.
+                       Thanks to Franco Fichtner for doing part of the work.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       The <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> .Bk macro got some addititonal bugfixes.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       In <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> macro arguments, double quotes can now be quoted 
+                       by doubling them, just like in <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A>.  
+                       Thanks to Tsugutomo ENAMI for the patch.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       At the end of <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> macro lines, end-of-sentence spacing
+                       now works.  Thanks to Franco Fichtner for the patch.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       For backward compatibility, the <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> parser now supports the
+                       man-ext .UR/.UE (uniform resource identifier) block macros.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       The <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> parser now handles closing blocks that are not open
+                       more gracefully.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       The <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> parser now ignores blank lines right after .SH and .SS.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       In the <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> formatter, reset indentation when leaving a block,
+                       not just when entering the next one.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> .nr request now supports incrementing and decrementing
+                       number registers and stops parsing the number right before the first non-digit character.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> parser now supports the alternative escape sequence
+                       syntax \C'uXXXX' for Unicode characters.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> parser now parses and ignores the .fam (font family) 
+                       and .hw (hyphenation points) requests and the \d and \u escape sequences.                  
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> manual got a new ESCAPE SEQUENCE REFERENCE.
+               </P>
+               <P CLASS="news">
+                       05-10-2013: version 1.12.2
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       The <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> to <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> converter,
+                       to be called as <CODE>mandoc -Tman</CODE>, is now fully functional.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       The <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A> utility now supports the <CODE>-Ios</CODE> (default operating system)
+                       input option, and the <CODE>-Tutf8</CODE> output mode now actually works.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       The <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb(8)</A> utility no longer truncates existing databases when starting to build new ones,
+                       but only replaces them when the build actually succeeds.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       The <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> parser now supports the <EM>PD</EM> macro (paragraph distance),
+                       and (for GNU man-ext compatibility only) <EM>EX</EM> (example block) and <EM>EE</EM> (example end).
+                       Plus several bugfixes regarding indentation, line breaks, and vertical spacing,
+                       and regarding <EM>RS</EM> following <EM>TP</EM>.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> parser now supports the <EM>\f(BI</EM> (bold+italic) font escape,
+                       the <EM>\z</EM> (zero cursor advance) escape and the <EM>cc</EM> (change control character)
+                       and <EM>it</EM> (input line trap) requests.
+                       Plus bugfixes regarding the <EM>\t</EM> (tab) escape, nested escape sequences, and conditional requests.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       In <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A>, several bugs were fixed related to UTF-8 output of quoting enclosures,
+                       delimiter handling, list indentation and horizontal and vertical spacing,
+                       formatting of the <EM>Lk</EM>, <EM>%U</EM>, and <EM>%C</EM> macros,
+                       plus some bugfixes related to the handling of syntax errors like badly nested font blocks,
+                       stray <EM>Ta</EM> macros outside column lists, unterminated <EM>It Xo</EM> blocks,
+                       and non-text children of <EM>Nm</EM> blocks.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       In <A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl(7)</A>, the width of horizontal spans and the vertical spacing around tables was corrected,
+                       and in <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> files, a crash was fixed that was triggered by some particular unclosed <EM>T{</EM> macros.
+               </P>
+               <P>
+                       For mandoc developers, we now provide a <A HREF="tbl.3.html">tbl(3)</A> library manual and <CODE>gmdiff</CODE>,
+                       a very small, very simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output comparison tool.
+               </P>
+               <H2>
+                       <A>History</A>
+               </H2>
+               <UL>
+                       <LI>
+                               <A HREF="NEWS">Release notes</A> going back to release 1.9.15, February 18, 2010.
+                               Briefly explaining the most important changes in each release in relatively easy terms.
+                               Very many changes are not mentioned here.
+                       </LI>
+                       <LI>
+                               <A HREF="history.html">Development history</A> going back to the beginning of the project, November 22, 2008.
+                               One-line entries for important commits, releases, merges, hackathons and talks.
+                               Makes it easy to find out who did what, and when, and when it became available where.
+                               However, this is still incomplete, mentioning only a small fraction of all commits,
+                               and to keep the size down, the individual entries are extremely terse and technical.
+                               Feel free to look up more details and longer explanations about individual entries
+                               in the ChangeLog or in CVS.
+                       </LI>
+                       <LI>
+                               <A HREF="ChangeLog">CVS ChangeLog</A> going back to the beginning of the project.
+                               Very technical information of varying quality, strictly chronological.
+                               All commits are mentioned, but some messages neglect to mention some changes.
+                               Partly terse, partly detailed and verbose.  In any case, the ChangeLog is very long -
+                               more than 25,000 lines, more than 700 kB.
+                       </LI>
+                       <LI>
+                               <A HREF="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">CVS</A> web interface, going back to the beginning of the project.
+                               Source code, diffs and commit messages for each source file.  The real thing.
+                       </LI>
+               </UL>
+               <P CLASS="foot">
+                       <SMALL>
+                               Copyright &#169; 2008&#8211;2011 
+                               <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>, 
+                               &#169; 2013 Ingo Schwarze,
+                               $Date: 2013/12/31 17:47:17 $
+                       </SMALL>
+               </P>
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