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version 1.34, 2019/03/10 09:32:00 |
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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 1.14.5, released on March 10, 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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* Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) and Sevan Janiyan (SmartOS) |
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for bug reports and release testing. |
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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 (NetBSD), Kurt Jaeger (FreeBSD), Fabio Scotoni, Kelvin |
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Sherlock, Mark Harris, Orestis Ioannou, Raf Czlonka, and Sean Farrell |
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for bug reports. |
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* Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD), Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux), |
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Matej Cepl (openSUSE), and Jan Stary (MacOS X) for release testing. |
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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 |
Changes in version 1.14.3, released on August 5, 2017 |
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| --- BUG FIXES --- |
--- BUG FIXES --- |
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