- 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).
@@ -71,37 +71,39 @@- 18-09-2013: version 1.12.2 + 23-09-2013: version 1.12.2
- The main new feature in mandoc 1.12.2 is that the mdoc(7) to man(7)
- converter, to be called as mandoc -Tman, is now fully functional.
+ The mdoc(7) to man(7) converter,
+ to be called as mandoc -Tman, is now fully functional.
The mandoc(1) utility now supports the -Ios (default operating system)
input option, and the -Tutf8 output mode now actually works.
- In mandocdb(8), do not truncate existing databases when starting to build new ones, - only replace them when the build actually succeeds. + The mandocdb(8) utility no longer truncates existing databases when starting to build new ones, + but only replaces them when the build actually succeeds.
The man(7) parser now supports the PD macro (paragraph distance), @@ -287,24 +289,23 @@ 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, regarding nested escape sequences, - and regarding conditional requests. + Plus bugfixes regarding the \t (tab) escape, nested escape sequences, and conditional requests.
- In mdoc(7), several bugfixes related to UTF-8 output of quoting enclosures, + 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 fixes to Lk, %U, and %C, + 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), correct the width of horizontal spans, the vertical spacing around tables - in man(7) files, and fix a crash caused by some particular unclosed T{ macros. + 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 simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output comparison tool.
+ a very small, very simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output comparison tool.
23-03-2011: version 1.12.1 @@ -338,7 +339,8 @@ Copyright © 2008–2011 Kristaps Dzonsons, - $Date: 2013/09/18 19:07:37 $ + © 2013 Ingo Schwarze, + $Date: 2013/09/23 20:20:10 $