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