-
- <TABLE WIDTH="100%" CELLPADDING="2">
- <COL CLASS="date">
- <TBODY>
- <TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">xx-05-2010</SPAN></TD>
-
- <TD VALIGN="top">
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">13-05-2010</SPAN></TD>
- <TD VALIGN="top">
- Fixed handling of <Q>\*(Ba</Q> escape. Backed out <SPAN
- CLASS="flag">-fno-ign-chars</SPAN> (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
- <Q>end-of-sentence, end-of-line</Q> rule. This is a stable roll-back point
- before the mandoc hackathon in Rostock!
- Version: <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.25</SPAN>.
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">09-05-2010</SPAN></TD>
- <TD VALIGN="top">
- Rolled back break-at-hyphen. <SPAN CLASS="flag">-DUGLY</SPAN> 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. Lastly, <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is the focus of two <A
- CLASS="external" HREF="http://socghop.appspot.com/">Google Summer of Code</A>
- projects this year: <Q><A CLASS="external"
- HREF="http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/mandoc_ps/">mandoc -Tps</A></Q>
- (NetBSD) and <Q><A CLASS="external"
- HREF="http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2010Projects">BSD-licensed
- Text-Processing Tools</A></Q> (FreeBSD).
- Version: <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.24</SPAN>.
- </TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">07-04-2010</SPAN></TD>
- <TD VALIGN="top">
- <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> has been linked to the <A CLASS="external"
- HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html#20100403">OpenBSD build</a>. 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 <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Thtml</SPAN> have been fixed, which
- prompted an update to the <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">online</A> <A
- HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">manual</A> <A HREF="man.7.html">pages</A> style
- layout. Version: <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.23</SPAN>.
- </TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">31-03-2010</SPAN></TD>
- <TD VALIGN="top">
- Version <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.22</SPAN>: adjusted merge of the significant work
- by Ingo Schwarze in getting <Q>Xo</Q> blocks (block full implicit, e.g.,
- <Q>It</Q> for non-columnar lists) to work properly. This isn't enabled by
- default: you must specify <SPAN CLASS="flag">-DUGLY</SPAN> as a compiler flag
- (see the Makefile for details).
- </TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">30-03-2010</SPAN></TD>
- <TD VALIGN="top">
- Version <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.20</SPAN>: more efforts to get roff instructions
- in -man documents under control. Note that roff instructions embedded in
- line-scoped, next-line macros (e.g. <Q>B</Q>) are not supported. Leading
- punctuation for -mdoc macros, such as <Q>Fl ( ( a</Q>, are now correctly
- handled.
- </TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">27-03-2010</SPAN></TD>
- <TD VALIGN="top">
- Version <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.18</SPAN>: many fixes (largely pertaining to
- scope) and improvements (e.g., handling of apostrophe-control macros, which
- fixes the strange <Q>BR</Q> seen in some macro output) to handling roff
- instructions in -man documents.
- </TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">25-03-2010</SPAN></TD>
- <TD VALIGN="top">
- Version <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.17</SPAN> highlights: accept <A
- HREF="http://perldoc.perl.org/" CLASS="external">perlpod</A> standard preamble.
- Also accept (and discard) <Q>de</Q>, <Q>dei</Q>, <Q>am</Q>, <Q>ami</Q>, and
- <Q>ig</Q> roff macro blocks.
- </TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">22-03-2010</SPAN></TD>
- <TD VALIGN="top">
- Version <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.16</SPAN> highlights: inspired by patches and bug
- reports by Ingo Schwarze, allowed <SPAN CLASS="flag">-man</SPAN> to accept
- non-printing elements to be nested within next-line scopes, such as <Q>br</Q>
- within <Q>B</Q> or <Q>TH</Q>, which is valid roff. Longsoon architecture also
- noted and Makefile cleaned up.
- </TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">18-02-2010</SPAN></TD>
- <TD VALIGN="top">
- Moved to our new <A HREF="http://bsd.lv" CLASS="external">BSD.lv</A> home.
- Version <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.15</SPAN> highlights: XHTML is now an acceptable
- output mode for <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A>; <Q>Xr</Q> made more
- compatible with groff; <Q>Vt</Q> fixed when invoked in SYNOPSIS; <Q>\\</Q>
- 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.
- </TD>
- </TR>
- </TBODY>
- </TABLE>
+ <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>
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