From cec3050d780407ba6dcfda8c136dc644b2309d59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Schwarze Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:20:10 +0000 Subject: Polish the web page for the 1.12.2 release: * Manuals: Alphabetically sort "eqn" before "man". * Downstream: List explicit downstream versions. Yes, keeping this up to date causes minimal work, but i consider it worth the effort. * List all three places DragonFly scattered its mandoc build system to. * News: Polish the wording. * Note that groff is GPLv3, and remove the wrong claim that it's all GPL. * Assert my Copyright. --- index.sgml | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.sgml b/index.sgml index b5ceaf9b..26f92e92 100644 --- a/index.sgml +++ b/index.sgml @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ pages whilst providing token support for man.

- Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and all of which is GPL. It runs slowly, produces + Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and GPL version 3. It runs slowly, produces uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system. mdocml strives to fix this (respectively small, C, ISC-licensed, fast and regular).

@@ -71,37 +71,39 @@ DragonFly BSD - usr.bin/mandoc + contrib/mdocml (1.12.1 sources) + lib/libmandoc + usr.bin/mandoc (build system) FreeBSD - ports/textproc/mdocml + ports/textproc/mdocml (1.12.1 port) NetBSD - src/external/bsd/mdocml + src/external/bsd/mdocml (1.12.1 sources plus patches and build system) OpenBSD - src/usr.bin/mandoc + src/usr.bin/mandoc (1.12.2 sources and build system) pkgsrc - textproc/mdocml + textproc/mdocml (1.12.0 port) Minix3 - external/bsd/mdocml + external/bsd/mdocml (1.10.9 sources and build system) @@ -161,21 +163,21 @@ - man(7) + eqn(7) - man language reference + eqn-mandoc language reference - man.cgi(7) + man(7) - cgi for manpage query and display + man language reference - eqn(7) + man.cgi(7) - eqn-mandoc language reference + cgi for manpage query and display @@ -263,19 +265,19 @@ News

- 18-09-2013: version 1.12.2 + 23-09-2013: version 1.12.2

- The main new feature in mandoc 1.12.2 is that the mdoc(7) to man(7) - converter, to be called as mandoc -Tman, is now fully functional. + The mdoc(7) to man(7) converter, + to be called as mandoc -Tman, is now fully functional.

The mandoc(1) utility now supports the -Ios (default operating system) input option, and the -Tutf8 output mode now actually works.

- In mandocdb(8), do not truncate existing databases when starting to build new ones, - only replace them when the build actually succeeds. + The mandocdb(8) utility no longer truncates existing databases when starting to build new ones, + but only replaces them when the build actually succeeds.

The man(7) parser now supports the PD macro (paragraph distance), @@ -287,24 +289,23 @@ The roff(7) parser now supports the \f(BI (bold+italic) font escape, the \z (zero cursor advance) escape and the cc (change control character) and it (input line trap) requests. - Plus bugfixes regarding the \t (tab) escape, regarding nested escape sequences, - and regarding conditional requests. + Plus bugfixes regarding the \t (tab) escape, nested escape sequences, and conditional requests.

- In mdoc(7), several bugfixes related to UTF-8 output of quoting enclosures, + In mdoc(7), several bugs were fixed related to UTF-8 output of quoting enclosures, delimiter handling, list indentation and horizontal and vertical spacing, - formatting fixes to Lk, %U, and %C, + formatting of the Lk, %U, and %C macros, plus some bugfixes related to the handling of syntax errors like badly nested font blocks, stray Ta macros outside column lists, unterminated It Xo blocks, and non-text children of Nm blocks.

- In tbl(7), correct the width of horizontal spans, the vertical spacing around tables - in man(7) files, and fix a crash caused by some particular unclosed T{ macros. + In tbl(7), the width of horizontal spans and the vertical spacing around tables was corrected, + and in man(7) files, a crash was fixed that was triggered by some particular unclosed T{ macros.

For mandoc developers, we now provide a tbl(3) library manual and gmdiff, - a simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output comparison tool. + a very small, very simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output comparison tool.

23-03-2011: version 1.12.1 @@ -338,7 +339,8 @@ Copyright © 2008–2011 Kristaps Dzonsons, - $Date: 2013/09/18 19:07:37 $ + © 2013 Ingo Schwarze, + $Date: 2013/09/23 20:20:10 $

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