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 This file lists the most important changes in the mandoc.bsd.lv distribution.  This file lists the most important changes in the mandoc.bsd.lv distribution.
   
   Changes in version 1.14.5, released on March 10, 2019
   
       --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * apropos(1): improve POSIX compliance by accepting case-insensitive
      extended regular expressions by default
    * new -O tag[=term] output option (open a page at the definition of a term)
    * tbl(7) -T html: spanning and horizontal and vertical alignment of cells
    * tbl(7) -T html: draw lines on the edges of table cells
    * tbl(7) -T utf8: render lines with the Unicode box drawing characters
    * mandoc is now able to handle the manual pages of the groff package.
       --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * -T html: new option -O toc (table of contents)
    * -T html: second argument to -O man to support local and remote links
    * mdoc(7) .Bd -centered now fills the text contained in it
    * man-ext .SY and .YS macros (synopsis block)
    * man-ext .TQ macro (tagged paragraph without vertical space before it)
    * tbl(7) \& explicit alignment indicator
    * roff(7) .shift, .while, and .return requests
    * roff(7) .char request (output glyph definition)
    * roff(7) .nop request (no operation)
    * roff(7) .ft request: handle the CB, CI, and CR fonts
    * roff(7) .if c conditional (character available)
    * roff(7) \\$@ escape sequence (insert all macro arguments, quoted)
    * roff(7) \*(.T predefined string (interpolate output device name)
    * roff(7) \[charNNN] escape sequence (for printable ASCII characters)
    * roff(7) \# escape sequence (line continuation with comment)
       --- HTML OUTPUT SYNTAX CORRECTIONS ---
    * Render .br and \p as <br/>, not as an empty <div>.
    * Render .Pp and .PP as <p> and automatically close it when needed.
    * Stop writing empty list elements for non-compact .Bl -tag lists.
    * Do not put <p> inside <a> if .UR or .MT contain .PP.
    * Implement tooltips purely in CSS rather than abusing title= attributes.
       --- MINOR FUNCTIONAL IMPROVEMENTS ---
    * many improvements to the handling of fill and no-fill mode
    * tbl(7): better column widths in the presence of horizontal spans
    * several minor improvements to escape sequence handling
    * several minor improvements to manual font handling
    * portability: autodetect need for _GNU_SOURCE or _OPENBSD_SOURCE
    * portability: autodetect whether less(1) supports the -T option
    * large numbers of bugfixes of diverse kinds
       --- STRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENTS ---
    * Disentangle eqn(7) and tbl(7) from other parser header files,
      and clean up some parser data structures.
    * Substantially simplify error and warning message infrastructure.
       --- THANKS TO ---
    * John Gardner for crucial help implementing tooltips in CSS.
    * Alexander Bluhm, Raphael Graf, Ted Unangst (OpenBSD)
      and Daniel Sabogal (Alpine Linux) for patches.
    * Anthony Bentley and Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for documentation patches,
      suggesting new features, bug reports, and useful discussions.
    * Kyle Evans and Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD) for minor patches.
    * Pali Rohar for suggesting multiple new features and for reporting
      several bugs and missing features.
    * Klemens Nanni (OpenBSD) for suggesting multiple new features.
    * Kristaps Dzonsons (bsd.lv), Marc Espie (OpenBSD), Adam Kalisz,
      and Laura Morales for suggesting new features.
    * Wolfram Schneider and Yuri Pankov (FreeBSD) for reporting missing features.
    * Edward Tomasz Napierala (FreeBSD) for suggesting a feature improvement.
    * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) and Sevan Janiyan (SmartOS)
      for bug reports and release testing.
    * Bryan Steele, Janne Johansson, Kurt Mosiejczuk, Mike Belopuhov, Theo
      Buehler, Todd Miller (OpenBSD), Andreas Gustafsson, Christos Zoulas,
      Robert Elz (NetBSD), Kurt Jaeger (FreeBSD), Fabio Scotoni, Kelvin
      Sherlock, Mark Harris, Orestis Ioannou, Raf Czlonka, and Sean Farrell
      for bug reports.
    * Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD), Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux),
      Matej Cepl (openSUSE), and Jan Stary (MacOS X) for release testing.
    * Brian Callahan and Stuart Henderson (OpenBSD) for help
      with the OpenBSD groff port.
    * Bertrand Garrigues, Branden Robinson, Ralph Corderoy, and Werner
      Lemberg (GNU troff) for checking groff patches.
    * Scott Cheloha, Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD)
      and Natanael Copa (Alpine Linux) for useful discussions.
   
   Changes in version 1.14.4, released on August 8, 2018
   
       --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * In ASCII output, render mathematical symbols and greek letters
      as transliterations conveying the characters' meanings rather
      than trying to imitate their shape.  Consequently, such characters
      can now be used in portable manual pages.  All the same, please
      limit their use to contexts where they really matter, for example
      when showing complicated mathematical formulae.
    * First steps towards better support for small screens in HTML
      output (responsive design): avoid most style= attributes, in
      particular all hard-coded indentations and column widths, and
      provide a better mandoc.css style sheet with a @media query,
      using em units throughout, and avoiding redundancy in selectors.
    * Better HTML output with some more fitting HTML elements, eliminating
      needless class= attributes, and avoiding various HTML syntax errors
      (element nesting, URL-fragment syntax, duplicate id= attributes).
       --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * When a man(1) argument contains a slash, imply -l like in man-db.
    * Use TIOCGWINSZ to reduce the default -Owidth and -Oindent during
      interactive use on terminals narrower than 79 columns.
    * Generated PostScript files are now more than 50% smaller.
    * Terminal rendering of eqn(7) is improved in several respects.
    * Simplified and nicer output from the mdoc(7) .Lk macro, formatting
      all links in-line, even long ones.
    * roff(7) \n+ and \n- numerical register auto-increment and -decrement
    * roff(7) .nr optional third argument (auto-increment step size)
    * Autodetect in ./configure whether the compiler can use -W and -static,
      allowing to build on Solaris 10 and 11 without any configure.local.
       --- RELIABILITY BUGFIXES ---
    * Only activate UTF-8 output when the user really selected UTF-8,
      not some other multibyte character encoding.
    * Prevent excessive .ll arguments from generating infinite output.
    * Fix out of bounds accesses to parse buffers that could happen when
      using renamed or user defined macros after roff(7) conditionals.
    * Avoid an assertion failure in certain .Bl -column lists.
    * Avoid a NULL pointer access on deroff() failure after '.SS ""'.
    * Fix a segfault that could be triggered by two invalid .Dt macros.
    * Fix two syntax errors in generated PDF files.
    * Properly state the page size in generated PostScript files.
    * Close a memory leak caused by missing gzclose(3).
    * Fix misformatting of man(7) documents lacking .SH macros
      in PostScript and PDF output.
    * And many minor bugfixes.
       --- THANKS TO ---
    * Marc Espie (OpenBSD) for implementing the size reduction of
      PostScript files, one additional patch for code simplification,
      and two bug reports.
    * Theo Buehler (OpenBSD) for a bugfix patch,
      and Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD) for checking it.
    * John Gardner for more than a dozen suggestions regarding HTML output.
    * Mike Williams for teaching me how to use %%DocumentMedia and
      setpagedevice in PostScript files.
    * Werner Lemberg (groff) for feedback on mdoc(7) language changes.
    * Colin Watson (man-db) for feedback on man-db semantics.
    * Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for lots of feedback and suggestions
      on diagnostic messages and on the documentation.
    * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for suggesting two new style messages
      and one new feature, for two bug reports, and for release testing.
    * Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for suggesting a new style message,
      five bug reports, and release testing.
    * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for reporting multiple bugs and missing
      features.
    * Paul Irofti (OpenBSD) and Nate Bargmann for suggesting new features.
    * Michael Stapelberg (Debian) for bug reports and release testing.
    * Christian Weisgerber, Jonathan Gray, Stuart Henderson,
      Ted Unangst (OpenBSD), Takeshi Nakayama (NetBSD),
      Anton Lazarov, Jakub Klinkovsky, Jan Stary, Jesper Wallin,
      Will Backmam, and Wolfgang Mueller for bug reports.
    * Sevan Janiyan (NetBSD) for additions to lib.in.
    * George Brown for suggesting code simplifications.
    * David Coppa, Igor Sobrado (OpenBSD), and Alexander Kuleshov
      for documentation improvements.
    * Laura Morales and Raf Czlonka for questions resulting in better
      documentation.
    * Yuri Pankov (illumos) for release testing.
   
   Changes in version 1.14.3, released on August 5, 2017
   
       --- BUG FIXES ---
    * man(7): Do not crash with out-of-bounds read access to a constant
      array if .sp or a blank line immediately precedes .SS or .SH.
    * mdoc(7): Do not crash with out-of-bounds read access to a constant
      array if .sp or a blank line precede the first .Sh macro.
    * tbl(7): Ignore explicitly specified negative column widths rather than
      wrapping around to huge numbers and risking memory exhaustion.
    * man(1): No longer use names that only occur in the SYNOPSIS section.
      Gets rid of some surprising behaviour and bogus warnings.
       --- THANKS TO ---
      Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux), Markus Waldeck (Debian),
      Peter Bui (nd.edu), and Yuri Pankov (illumos) for bug reports.
   
   Changes in version 1.14.2, released on July 28, 2017
   
       --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * New mdoc(7) -Tmarkdown output mode.
    * For -Thtml, implement internal hyperlinks pointing to authoritative
      definitions of various syntax elements, similar to the ctags(1)-like
      less(1) :t internal searching in terminal mode.
    * Provide a superset of the functionality of the former mdoclint(1)
      utility and a new -Wstyle message level with several new messages,
      including validity checking of .Xr cross references.
    * tbl(7): Implement automatic line breaking inside individual table
      cells, and several other formatting improvements.
    * eqn(7): Complete rewrite of the lexer, resulting in several bugfixes.
    * Continue parser unification, in particular allowing generation
      of syntax tree nodes on the roff(7) level, allowing implementation
      of many additional roff requests.
       --- REMOVED FUNCTIONALITY ---
    * Delete the manpage(1) utility.  It was never enabled in any release.
    * Delete the -Txhtml command line option.  It has been an obsolete
      alias for the -Thtml output mode for more than two years.
       --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * -Tlint now puts parser messages on stdout instead of stderr,
      making commands like "man -l -Tlint *.1" useful.
    * mdoc(7): Various .Lk formatting improvements.
    * mdoc(7) -Thtml: Better CSS for .Bl lists.
    * man(7): Implement the .MT/.ME block macro (mailto hyperlink).
    * man(7): Implement the .DT macro (restore default tab positions).
    * man(7): Improved support for manuals generated with reStructuredText
      by partial support for the \n[an-margin] number register.
    * man(7) -Thtml: Support deep linking to .SH and .SS headers.
    * tbl(7): Implement the "allbox" table option.
    * tbl(7): Implement the column spacing and the 'w' (minimum column
      width) layout modifiers.
    * tbl(7): Significant improvements of the manual page.
    * eqn(7): Much improved font selection, including recognition of
      well-known function names, and a few other formatting improvements.
    * eqn(7) -Thtml: Use <mn> and <mo> in addition to <mi>.
    * roff(7): Implement the .ce (centering), .mc (margin character),
      .rj (right justify), .ta (define tab stops), .ti (temporary indent),
      .als (macro alias), .ec and .eo (escape character control),
      .po (page offset), and .rn (macro rename) requests.
    * roff(7) .am: Implement appending to mdoc(7) and man(7) macros.
    * roff(7): implement the \h (horizontol motion), \l (horizontal
      line drawing), and \p (break output line) escape sequences,
      and also several additional character escape sequences.
    * roff(7): Implement the 'd' conditional (macro or string defined).
    * man.cgi(8) now uses pledge(2), too.
    * regress.pl(1): simpler user interface, better summary output,
      simpler code, and no more recursion.
       --- THANKS TO ---
    * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for the implementation of .MT/.ME,
      reports of many bugs and missing features, and suggestions
      for a number of feature and documentation improvements.
    * Sebastien Marie (OpenBSD) for two source code patches and
      for some useful discussions.
    * Florian Obser (OpenBSD) for a bugfix patch and a bug report.
    * Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for several bug reports from afl(1)
      and several more from static analysis tools.
    * Theo Buehler (OpenBSD) for several bug reports, most from afl(1).
    * Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for many useful discussions about a
      wide variety of topics, lots of continuous testing, a number of
      bug reports, and some suggestions for messages and documentation.
    * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for lots of help while migrating
      mdoclint(1) functionality to mandoc -Tlint, for suggesting
      several useful new messages, and for release testing.
    * Reyk Floeter (OpenBSD) and Vsevolod Stakhov (FreeBSD) for
      suggesting a markdown output mode.
    * Thomas Guettler for suggesting -Thtml internal hyperlinks.
    * Yuri Pankov (Illumos) for inspiring new warning messages and
      for extensive release testing.
    * Anton Lindqvist and TJ Townsend (both OpenBSD) and Jan Stary
      for multiple bug reports.
    * Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for bug reports and release testing.
    * Michael Stapelberg (Debian) for suggesting feature improvements
      and for release testing.
    * Martin Natano and Theo de Raadt (both OpenBSD), Andreas Voegele,
      Gabriel Guzman, Gonzalo Tornaria, Markus Waldeck, and Raf Czlonka
      for bug reports.
    * Antoine Jacoutot (OpenBSD) and Steffen Nurpmeso for suggesting
      feature improvements.
    * Dag-Erling Smoergrav (FreeBSD) for inspiring new warning messages.
    * Ted Unangst and Marc Espie (OpenBSD) for providing useful ideas.
    * Svyatoslav Mishyn (Crux Linux) for release testing.
    * Carsten Kunze (Heirloom roff) for help keeping mandoc and groff
      compatible and for committing some of my patches to groff.
   
 Changes in version 1.14.1, released on February 21, 2017  Changes in version 1.14.1, released on February 21, 2017
   
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