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News
- xx-xx-2011: version 1.11.x
+ xx-xx-2011: version 1.12.1
- For tbl, the horizontal spacing of tables was rewritten completely.
- It is now compatible with groff, both with and without frames and rulers.
- Nesting of indented blocks is now supported in man,
- and several bugs were fixed regarding various kinds of indentation and alignment.
- The page headers in mdoc are now nicer even for very long titles.
- Implementation of a mdoc-to-man-coverter (-Tman) was started.
- This is work in progress and will be developed in the tree.
- The mdoc and man manuals have been made more readable
- by adding MACRO OVERVIEW sections, by moving the gory details of the LANGUAGE SYNTAX to the roff manual,
- and by moving the very technical MACRO SYNTAX sections down to the bottom of the page.
+ Significant work on apropos and mandocdb. These tools are
+ now much more robust and in line with other manpage systems. A whatis implementation is now
+ handled as an apropos mode. These tools are also able to minimally handle pre-formatted
+ pages, that is, those already formatted by another utility such as GNU troff.
-
- 02-09-2011: version 1.11.7
-
- Added demandoc utility for stripping away macros and escapes. This replaces the
- historical deroff
utility. Also improved the mdoc and man manuals.
+ The man.cgi script is also now available for wider testing. It interfaces with mandocdb manuals cached by catman. HTML output is generated
+ on-the-fly by libmandoc or internal methods to convert pre-formatted pages.
- 16-08-2011: version 1.11.6
+ 08-10-2011: version 1.12.0
- Handling of tr macro in roff implemented. This makes Perl documentation much more
- readable. Hyphenation is also now enabled in man format documents. Many other general
- improvements have been implemented. Furthermore, a 64-bit Windows binary is now available at mdocml-win64.zip and a Mac OS X universal binary is available at mdocml-macosx.zip.
+ This version features a new, work-in-progress mandoc output mode: -Tman. This mode
+ allows a system maintainer to distribute man media for older systems that may not natively
+ support mdoc, such as old Solaris systems.
+ The -Ofragment option was added to mandoc's -Thtml and -Txhtml modes.
-
- 24-07-2011: version 1.11.5
+
+ While adding features, an apropos utility has been merged from the mandoc-tools sandbox.
+ This interfaces with mandocdb for semantic search of manual content. apropos is different from the traditional apropos primarily in allowing keyword search
+ (such as for functions, utilities, etc.) and regular expressions.
+ Note that the calling syntax for apropos is likely to change as it settles down.
- Significant eqn improvements. mdocml can now parse arbitrary eqn input
- (although few GNU extensions are accepted, nor is mixing low-level roff with eqn). See the eqn
- manual for details. For the time being, equations are rendered as simple in-line text. The equation parser satisfies
- the language specified in the Second
- Edition User's Guide.
+ In documentation news, the mdoc and man manuals have been made
+ considerably more readable by adding MACRO OVERVIEW sections, by moving the gory details of the LANGUAGE
+ SYNTAX to the roff manual, and by moving the very technical MACRO SYNTAX sections
+ down to the bottom of the page.
- This is also the first release featuring a distributed Windows binary, available at /binaries/mdocml-win32.zip.
+ Furthermore, for tbl, the -Tascii mode horizontal spacing of tables was rewritten
+ completely. It is now compatible with groff, both
+ with and without frames and rulers. Nesting of indented blocks is now supported in man, and
+ several bugs were fixed regarding indentation and alignment. The page headers in mdoc are now
+ nicer for very long titles.
See cvsweb for
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Copyright © 2008–2011
Kristaps Dzonsons,
- $Date: 2011/09/27 22:59:01 $
+ $Date: 2011/12/10 23:44:42 $