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@@ -3,22 +3,16 @@
- Binary archives consist of pre-compiled binaries, manuals, and other necessary files.
- Universal (Mac OS X) binaries are compiled for the PCC, i386, and x86_64 architectures.
- Windows binaries are compiled with MingW for the 32-bit (i686) and
- 64-bit (x86_64) architectures.
-
-
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bug-reports, general questions, and announcements
- (archive)
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patches and system discussions
- (archive)
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source commit messages
- (archive)
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News
- 08-10-2011: version 1.12.0
+ 18-09-2013: version 1.12.2
- This version features a new, work-in-progress mandoc output mode: -Tman. This mode
- allows a system maintainer to distribute man media for older systems that may not natively
- support mdoc, such as old Solaris systems.
- The -Ofragment option was added to mandoc's -Thtml and -Txhtml modes.
+ 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.
- While adding features, an apropos utility has been merged from the mandoc-tools sandbox.
- This interfaces with mandocdb for semantic search of manual content. apropos is different from the traditional apropos primarily in allowing keyword search
- (such as for functions, utilities, etc.) and regular expressions.
- Note that the calling syntax for apropos is likely to change as it settles down.
+ The mandoc(1) utility now supports the -Ios
(default operating system)
+ input option, and the -Tutf8
output mode now actually works.
- In documentation news, the mdoc and man manuals have been made
- considerably more readable by adding MACRO OVERVIEW sections, by moving the gory details of the LANGUAGE
- SYNTAX to the roff manual, and by moving the very technical MACRO SYNTAX sections
- down to the bottom of the page.
+ In mandocdb(8), do not truncate existing databases when starting to build new ones,
+ only replace them when the build actually succeeds.
- Furthermore, for tbl, the -Tascii mode horizontal spacing of tables was rewritten
- completely. It is now compatible with groff, both
- with and without frames and rulers. Nesting of indented blocks is now supported in man, and
- several bugs were fixed regarding indentation and alignment. The page headers in mdoc are now
- nicer for very long titles.
+ 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.
-
- 02-09-2011: version 1.11.7
+
+ 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.
- Added demandoc utility for stripping away macros and escapes. This replaces the
- historical deroff
utility. Also improved the mdoc and man manuals.
+ In mdoc(7), several bugfixes related to UTF-8 output of quoting enclosures,
+ delimiter handling, list indentation and horizontal and vertical spacing,
+ formatting fixes to Lk, %U, and %C,
+ 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.
+
+
+ For mandoc developers, we now provide a tbl(3) library manual and gmdiff
,
+ a simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output comparison tool.
+
- 16-08-2011: version 1.11.6
+ 23-03-2011: version 1.12.1
- Handling of tr macro in roff implemented. This makes Perl documentation much more
- readable. Hyphenation is also now enabled in man format documents. Many other general
- improvements have been implemented. Furthermore, a 64-bit Windows binary is now available at mdocml-win64.zip and a Mac OS X universal binary is available at mdocml-macosx.zip.
+ 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.
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Copyright © 2008–2011
Kristaps Dzonsons,
- $Date: 2011/11/23 10:26:37 $
+ $Date: 2013/09/18 19:07:37 $