+ <TR>
+ <TD>
+ <H1>
+ <A NAME="news">NEWS</A>
+ </H1>
+ <DIV CLASS="news">
+ <P>
+ <SPAN CLASS="date">24-12-2010</SPAN>:
+ version 1.10.8
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ Significant improvements merged from <A CLASS="external"
+ HREF="http://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</A> downstream, including
+ </P>
+ <UL>
+ <LI>many new <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> components,</LI>
+ <LI>in-line implementation of troff's soelim,</LI>
+ <LI>broken-block handling,</LI>
+ <LI>overhauled error classifications, and</LI>
+ <LI>cleaned up handling of error conditions.</LI>
+ </UL>
+ <P>
+ Also overhauled the <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Thtml</SPAN> and <SPAN
+ CLASS="flag">-Txhtml</SPAN> output modes. They now display readable output in arbitrary
+ browsers, including text-based ones like <A CLASS="external"
+ HREF="http://lynx.isc.org">lynx</A>. See HTML and XHTML manuals in the <A
+ HREF="#documentation">DOCUMENTATION</A> section for examples. <SPAN
+ CLASS="attn">Attention: available style-sheet classes have been considerably
+ changed!</SPAN> See the <SPAN CLASS="file">example.style.css</SPAN> file for details.
+ Lastly, <A HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A> and <A HREF="man.3.html">libman</A> have been
+ cleaned up and reduced in size and complexity.
+ </P>
+ </DIV>
+ <DIV CLASS="news">
+ <P>
+ <SPAN CLASS="date">27-09-2010</SPAN>:
+ version 1.10.6
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ Calling conventions for <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> have changed: <SPAN
+ CLASS="flag">-W</SPAN> improved and <SPAN CLASS="flag">-f</SPAN> deprecated. Non-ASCII
+ characters are also now uniformly discarded. Lots of documentation improvements. Many
+ incremental fixes accomodating for groff's more interesting productions. Lastly, <A
+ HREF="http://perldoc.perl.org/pod2man.html" CLASS="external">pod2man</A> preambles are
+ now fully accepted after some considerable <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> and special
+ character support.
+ </P>
+ </DIV>
+ <DIV CLASS="news">
+ <P>
+ <SPAN CLASS="date">27-07-2010</SPAN>:
+ version 1.10.5
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ Primarily a bug-fix and polish release, but including <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tpdf</SPAN>
+ support in <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> by way of <A CLASS="external"
+ HREF="http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/mandoc_ps/">Summer of Code</A>.
+ Highlights:
+ </P>
+ <UL>
+ <LI>fix <Q>Sm</Q> and <Q>Bd</Q> handling</LI>
+ <LI>fix end-of-sentence handling for embedded sentences</LI>
+ <LI>polish <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> documentation</LI>
+ <LI>document all <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A> macros</LI>
+ <LI>polish <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tps</SPAN> output</LI>
+ <LI>lots of internal clean-ups in character escapes</LI>
+ <LI>un-break literal contexts in <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> documents</LI>
+ <LI>improve <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Thtml</SPAN> output for <SPAN CLASS="flag">-man</SPAN></LI>
+ <LI>add <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tpdf</SPAN> support</LI>
+ </UL>
+ </DIV>
+ <DIV CLASS="news">
+ <P>
+ <SPAN CLASS="date">12-07-2010</SPAN>:
+ version 1.10.4
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ Lots of features developed during both <A CLASS="external"
+ HREF="http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/mandoc_ps/">Summer of Code</A> and the
+ <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</A> c2k10 hackathon:
+ </P>
+ <UL>
+ <LI>minimal <Q>ds</Q> <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> symbols are supported</LI>
+ <LI><Q>Bk</Q> <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A> support</LI>
+ <LI>beautified SYNOPSIS section output</LI>
+ <LI>variable font-width and paper-size support in <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>
+ <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tps</SPAN> output</LI>
+ <LI>acceptance of scope-block breakage in <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></LI>
+ <LI>clarify error message status</LI>
+ <LI>many minor bug-fixes and formatting issues resolved</LI>
+ </UL>
+ </DIV>
+ <DIV CLASS="news">
+ <P>
+ <SPAN CLASS="date">19-06-2010</SPAN>:
+ version 1.10.2
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ Small release featuring text-decoration in <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tps</SPAN> output, a few
+ minor relaxations of errors, and some optimisations.
+ </P>
+ </DIV>
+ <DIV CLASS="news">
+ <P>
+ <SPAN CLASS="date">07-06-2010</SPAN>:
+ version 1.10.1
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ This primarily focusses on the <Q>Bl</Q> and <Q>It</Q> macros described in <A
+ HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A>. Multi-line column support is now fully compatible with
+ groff, as are implicit list entries for columns. Removed manuals.7 in favour of <A
+ CLASS="external" HREF="http://manpages.bsd.lv">http://manpages.bsd.lv</A>. The way we
+ handle the SYNOPSIS section (see the SYNOPSIS documentation in <A
+ HREF="mdoc.7.html#x4d414e55414cx20x535452554354555245">MANUAL STRUCTURE</A>) has also
+ been considerably simplified compared to groff's method. Furthermore, the <SPAN
+ CLASS="flag">-Owidth=width</SPAN> output option has been added to <SPAN
+ CLASS="flag">-Tascii</SPAN> (see <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>). Lastly, initial
+ PostScript output has been added with the <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tps</SPAN> option to <A
+ HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>. It's brutally simple at the moment: fixed-font, with
+ no font decorations.
+ </P>
+ </DIV>
+ <DIV CLASS="news">
+ <P>
+ <SPAN CLASS="date">29-05-2010</SPAN>:
+ version 1.10.0
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ 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:
+ </P>
+ <UL>
+ <LI>a <A HREF="roff.3.html">libroff</A> preprocessor in front of <A
+ HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A> and <A HREF="man.3.html">libman</A> stripping out
+ <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> instructions;</LI>
+ <LI>end-of-sentence (EOS) detection in free-form and macro lines;</LI>
+ <LI>correct handling of tab-separated columnar lists in <SPAN
+ CLASS="flag">-mdoc</SPAN>;</LI>
+ <LI>improved main calling routines to optionally use mmap() for better
+ performance;</LI>
+ <LI>cleaned up exiting when invoked as <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tlint</SPAN> or over
+ multiple files with <SPAN CLASS="flag">-fign-errors</SPAN>;</LI>
+ <LI>error and warning message handling re-written to be unified for <A
+ HREF="roff.3.html">libroff</A>, <A HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A>, and <A
+ HREF="man.3.html">libman</A>;</LI>
+ <LI>handling of badly-nested explicit-scoped macros;</LI>
+ <LI>improved free-form text parsing in <A HREF="man.3.html">libman</A> and <A
+ HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A>;</LI>
+ <LI>significant GNU troff compatibility improvements in <SPAN
+ CLASS="flag">-Tascii</SPAN>, largely in terms of spacing;</LI>
+ <LI>a regression framework for making sure the many fragilities of GNU troff
+ aren't trampled in subsequent work;</LI>
+ <LI>support for <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tascii</SPAN> breaking at hyphens
+ encountered in free-form text;</LI>
+ <LI>and many more minor fixes and improvements (no really, consult <A
+ HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> and see
+ for yourself!).</LI>
+ </UL>
+ </DIV>
+ <P>
+ See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for
+ historical notes.
+ </P>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
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