From 31e5c34a51fbd4c7881e842038becb484b27cf90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Schwarze Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 06:45:43 +0000 Subject: Merge from branch VERSION_1_12: - mention that groff is GPL version 3 - link the new tbl.3.html - list FreeBSD base version of mandoc - document downstream versions - copy the version 1.12.2 News --- index.sgml | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 100 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) (limited to 'index.sgml') diff --git a/index.sgml b/index.sgml index 23269e80..03563fe7 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).

@@ -69,37 +69,46 @@ DragonFly BSD - usr.bin/mandoc + contrib/mdocml (1.12.1 sources) + lib/libmandoc + usr.bin/mandoc (build system) - FreeBSD + FreeBSD 10.0, -CURRENT - ports/textproc/mdocml + contrib/mdocml (1.12.1 sources) + usr.bin/mandoc (build system) + + + + FreeBSD 9.x, 8.x + + 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) @@ -147,21 +156,27 @@ - man(7) + tbl(3) - man language reference + roff table parser library for mandoc - man.cgi(7) + eqn(7) - cgi for manpage query and display + eqn-mandoc language reference - eqn(7) + man(7) - eqn-mandoc language reference + man language reference + + + + man.cgi(7) + + cgi for manpage query and display @@ -243,16 +258,80 @@ News

- xx-xx-2012: version 1.12.4 -

-

- Ingo, can you summarise your changes here? + xx-xx-2013: version 1.13.0

- The mandocdb tools (mandocdb, mandocdb tools (mandocdb, apropos (absorbing whatis), and man.cgi) have been re-written to use sqlite3 as a database.

+

+ 01-10-2013: version 1.12.2 +

+

+ 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. +

+

+ 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), + and (for GNU man-ext compatibility only) EX (example block) and EE (example end). + Plus several bugfixes regarding indentation, line breaks, and vertical spacing, + and regarding RS following TP. +

+

+ 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, nested escape sequences, and conditional requests. +

+

+ 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 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), 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 very small, very simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output comparison tool. +

+

+ 23-03-2011: version 1.12.1 +

+

+ Significant work on apropos and mandocdb. These tools are + now much more robust. + A whatis implementation is now handled as an apropos mode. + These tools are also able to minimally handle pre-formatted pages, that is, those already formatted by another utility + such as GNU troff. +

+

+ The man.cgi script is also now available for wider testing. It interfaces with mandocdb manuals cached by catman. HTML output is generated + on-the-fly by libmandoc or internal methods to convert pre-formatted pages. +

+

+ The mailing list archive for the discuss and tech lists are being hosted by Gmane at gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user and gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel, respectively. +

+

+ Lastly, I'm no longer providing binaries, as nobody has asked for them. +

See cvsweb for historical notes. @@ -261,7 +340,8 @@ Copyright © 2008–2011 Kristaps Dzonsons, - $Date: 2012/06/09 14:19:55 $ + © 2013 Ingo Schwarze, + $Date: 2013/10/02 06:45:43 $

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