=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.27 retrieving revision 1.34 diff -u -p -r1.27 -r1.34 --- mandoc/NEWS 2017/08/05 13:34:39 1.27 +++ mandoc/NEWS 2019/03/10 09:32:00 1.34 @@ -1,6 +1,157 @@ -$Id: NEWS,v 1.27 2017/08/05 13:34:39 schwarze Exp $ +$Id: NEWS,v 1.34 2019/03/10 09:32:00 schwarze Exp $ 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
, not as an empty
. + * Render .Pp and .PP as

and automatically close it when needed. + * Stop writing empty list elements for non-compact .Bl -tag lists. + * Do not put

inside 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