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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 1.14.6, released on XXX XXX, 2019
   
       --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * man(1) -T ascii: slowly start implementing tagging support for man(7)
      pages: tag alphabetic arguments of .IP, .TP, and .TQ macros
    * -T html: wrap text and phrasing elements in paragraphs unless
      already contained in flow containers; never put them directly
      into sections.  This helps to format paragraphs with the CSS
      class selector .Pp.
       --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
    * roff(7): implement the .break request (break out of a .while loop)
    * if messages are shown and output is printed without a pager,
      display a heads-up on stderr at the end because otherwise, users
      may easily miss the messages
    * mandoc.css: support prefers-color-scheme: dark
       --- RELIABILITY BUGFIXES ---
    * man(1): do not segfault if /tmp/ is not writeable
    * tbl(7): fix a crash when the last column is only reached by spans
    * tbl(7) -T ascii: fix a NULL pointer access on empty data cells
    * tbl(7) -T ascii: fix a NULL pointer access on a line next to a short row
    * -T html: fix an assertion failure caused by .ft in rare situations
    * roff(7): fix a rare case of writing one byte past the end of the input buffer
       --- MINOR FUNCTIONAL IMPROVEMENTS ---
    * man(1) -h: for pages lacking a SYNOPSIS, show the NAME section
    * man(1): when the first argument starts with a digit, optionally
      followed by a letter, and at least one more argument follows,
      interpret the first argument as a section name even when additional
      characters follow after the digit and letter
    * man(1): with a specific section requested, try harder to find
      the best match; use this order of preference:
      1. The section in both the directory name and the file name matches exactly.
      2. The section in the file name matches exactly.
      3. The section in the directory name matches exactly.
      4. Neither of them matches exactly.
    * man(1): if no tags were generated at all, unlink(2) the empty
      tags file as soon the condition can be detected and do not pass
      it to less(1)
    * makewhatis(8): handle both dangling symlinks and .so links
      in manual page directories more gracefully
    * man.cgi(8): for invalid queries and for valid queries returning
      no result, return the appropriate 40x status code rather than 200
    * tbl(7) -T utf8: improved rendering of horizontal lines
    * mdoc(7) -T html: format .Nd with <span> rather than <div>
    * mdoc(7) -T lint: do not warn about $Mdocdate$ without an actual date
    * mdoc(7) -T lint: do not complain about function types of the
      form "ret_type (fname)(args)", but otherwise check names more strictly
       --- MINOR BUGFIXES ---
    * man(1): do the search for each name independently, and show the
      results in the order of the command line argument
    * man(1): when asking for a single manual page by name, prefer
      file name matches over .Dt/.TH matches over first NAME matches
      over later NAME matches, but do not change the ordering for
      apropos(1) nor for man -a
    * roff(7): when calling an empty macro, do not clobber existing arguments
    * mdoc(7) .Bl -column: parse Macro in .It "word<tab>word" Ta word Macro<eol>
    * -T html: remove some spurious line breaks, in particular inside <pre>
       --- STRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENTS ---
    * move some code out of the giant main() into separate functions
      doing one well-defined task each
    * clearly separate parser state (struct curparse) and formatter state
      (struct outstate), don't mix them in the same struct
    * in the HTML formatter, assert(3) that no HTML nesting violation occurs
    * let html_close_paragraph() close any phrasing context
       --- THANKS TO ---
    * Marc Espie (OpenBSD) for a patch and for suggesting a feature impovement
    * Anton Lindqvist (OpenBSD) for a patch
    * Armin Besirovic for a contribution to mandoc.css
    * Lorenzo Beretta for three bug reports
      and for suggesting two feature impovements
    * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for three bug reports
      and for suggesting a feature impovement
    * Michael Stapelberg (Debian) and Jan Stary for a bug report
      and for suggesting a feature impovement
    * Stephen Gregoratto for two bug reports
    * Brian Callahan, Klemens Nanni (OpenBSD), Jason Thorpe (NetBSD),
      Yuri Pankov (FreeBSD), and Edgar Pettijohn for bug reports
    * Theo Buehler (OpenBSD), Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux), Colin Watson (Debian),
      and John Gardner for suggesting feature impovements
    * TJ Townsend (OpenBSD) for help with CSS
    * Christos Zoulas (NetBSD) for a report regarding portability
    * Michal Nowak for reporting four code style issues
   
   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  Changes in version 1.14.4, released on August 8, 2018
   
     --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---      --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
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