- Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and all of which is GPL. It runs slowly, produces
+ Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and GPL version 3. It runs slowly, produces
uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system. mdocml strives to fix this (respectively small, C, ISC-licensed, fast and regular).
@@ -39,9 +33,11 @@
- Binary archives consist of pre-compiled binaries, manuals, and other necessary files.
- Universal (Mac OS X) binaries are compiled for the PCC, i386, and x86_64 architectures.
- Windows binaries are compiled with MingW for the 32-bit (i686) and
- 64-bit (x86_64) architectures.
-
-
@@ -254,7 +232,6 @@
|
bug-reports, general questions, and announcements
- (archive)
|
@@ -264,7 +241,6 @@
|
patches and system discussions
- (archive)
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@@ -274,7 +250,6 @@
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source commit messages
- (archive)
|
@@ -283,59 +258,81 @@
News
- xx-xx-2011: version 1.11.8
+ xx-xx-2013: version 1.13.0
- 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.
+ The mandocdb tools (mandocdb, apropos (absorbing whatis), and man.cgi) have been re-written to
+ use sqlite3 as a database.
+
+ 01-10-2013: version 1.12.2
+
- 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.
+ The mdoc(7) to man(7) converter,
+ to be called as mandoc -Tman, is now fully functional.
- 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.
+ The mandoc(1) utility now supports the -Ios (default operating system)
+ input option, and the -Tutf8 output mode now actually works.
-
- 02-09-2011: version 1.11.7
+
+ The mandocdb(8) utility no longer truncates existing databases when starting to build new ones,
+ but only replaces them when the build actually succeeds.
- Added demandoc utility for stripping away macros and escapes. This replaces the
- historical deroff utility. Also improved the mdoc and man manuals.
+ The man(7) parser now supports the PD macro (paragraph distance),
+ and (for GNU man-ext compatibility only) EX (example block) and EE (example end).
+ Plus several bugfixes regarding indentation, line breaks, and vertical spacing,
+ and regarding RS following TP.
-
- 16-08-2011: version 1.11.6
+
+ The roff(7) parser now supports the \f(BI (bold+italic) font escape,
+ the \z (zero cursor advance) escape and the cc (change control character)
+ and it (input line trap) requests.
+ Plus bugfixes regarding the \t (tab) escape, nested escape sequences, and conditional requests.
- 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.
+ In mdoc(7), several bugs were fixed related to UTF-8 output of quoting enclosures,
+ delimiter handling, list indentation and horizontal and vertical spacing,
+ formatting of the Lk, %U, and %C macros,
+ plus some bugfixes related to the handling of syntax errors like badly nested font blocks,
+ stray Ta macros outside column lists, unterminated It Xo blocks,
+ and non-text children of Nm blocks.
+
+ In tbl(7), the width of horizontal spans and the vertical spacing around tables was corrected,
+ and in man(7) files, a crash was fixed that was triggered by some particular unclosed T{ macros.
+
+
+ For mandoc developers, we now provide a tbl(3) library manual and gmdiff,
+ a very small, very simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output comparison tool.
+
- 24-07-2011: version 1.11.5
+ 23-03-2011: version 1.12.1
- 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.
+ Significant work on apropos and mandocdb. These tools are
+ now much more robust.
+ 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.
- This is also the first release featuring a distributed Windows binary, available at /binaries/mdocml-win32.zip.
+ 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.
+ The mailing list archive for the discuss and tech lists are being hosted by Gmane at gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user and gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel, respectively.
+
+
+ Lastly, I'm no longer providing binaries, as nobody has asked for them.
+
+
See cvsweb for
historical notes.
@@ -343,7 +340,8 @@
Copyright © 2008–2011
Kristaps Dzonsons,
- $Date: 2011/10/05 21:43:11 $
+ © 2013 Ingo Schwarze,
+ $Date: 2013/10/02 06:45:43 $