version 1.32, 2018/08/08 14:47:38 |
version 1.33, 2019/03/06 10:22:57 |
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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. |
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Changes in version 1.14.5, released on March XX, 2019 |
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--- MAJOR NEW FEATURES --- |
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* apropos(1): improve POSIX compliance by accepting case-insensitive |
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extended regular expressions by default |
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* new -O tag[=term] output option (open a page at the definition of a term) |
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* tbl(7) -T html: spanning and horizontal and vertical alignment of cells |
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* tbl(7) -T html: draw lines on the edges of table cells |
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* tbl(7) -T utf8: render lines with the Unicode box drawing characters |
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* mandoc is now able to handle the manual pages of the groff package. |
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* -T html: new option -O toc (table of contents) |
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* -T html: second argument to -O man to support local and remote links |
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* mdoc(7) .Bd -centered now fills the text contained in it |
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* man-ext .SY and .YS macros (synopsis block) |
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* man-ext .TQ macro (tagged paragraph without vertical space before it) |
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* tbl(7) \& explicit alignment indicator |
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* roff(7) .shift, .while, and .return requests |
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* roff(7) .char request (output glyph definition) |
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* roff(7) .nop request (no operation) |
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* roff(7) .ft request: handle the CB, CI, and CR fonts |
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* roff(7) .if c conditional (character available) |
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* roff(7) \\$@ escape sequence (insert all macro arguments, quoted) |
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* roff(7) \*(.T predefined string (interpolate output device name) |
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* roff(7) \[charNNN] escape sequence (for printable ASCII characters) |
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* roff(7) \# escape sequence (line continuation with comment) |
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--- HTML OUTPUT SYNTAX CORRECTIONS --- |
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* Render .br and \p as <br/>, not as an empty <div>. |
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* Render .Pp and .PP as <p> and automatically close it when needed. |
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* Stop writing empty list elements for non-compact .Bl -tag lists. |
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* Do not put <p> inside <a> if .UR or .MT contain .PP. |
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* Implement tooltips purely in CSS rather than abusing title= attributes. |
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--- MINOR FUNCTIONAL IMPROVEMENTS --- |
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* many improvements to the handling of fill and no-fill mode |
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* tbl(7): better column widths in the presence of horizontal spans |
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* several minor improvements to escape sequence handling |
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* several minor improvements to manual font handling |
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* portability: autodetect need for _GNU_SOURCE or _OPENBSD_SOURCE |
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* portability: autodetect whether less(1) supports the -T option |
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* large numbers of bugfixes of diverse kinds |
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--- STRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENTS --- |
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* Disentangle eqn(7) and tbl(7) from other parser header files, |
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and clean up some parser data structures. |
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* Substantially simplify error and warning message infrastructure. |
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--- THANKS TO --- |
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* John Gardner for crucial help implementing tooltips in CSS. |
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* Alexander Bluhm, Raphael Graf, Ted Unangst (OpenBSD) |
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and Daniel Sabogal (Alpine Linux) for patches. |
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* Anthony Bentley and Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for documentation patches, |
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suggesting new features, bug reports, and useful discussions. |
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* Kyle Evans and Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD) for minor patches. |
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* Pali Rohar for suggesting multiple new features and for reporting |
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several bugs and missing features. |
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* Klemens Nanni (OpenBSD) for suggesting multiple new features. |
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* Kristaps Dzonsons (bsd.lv), Marc Espie (OpenBSD), Adam Kalisz, |
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and Laura Morales for suggesting new features. |
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* Wolfram Schneider and Yuri Pankov (FreeBSD) for reporting missing features. |
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* Edward Tomasz Napierala (FreeBSD) for suggesting a feature improvement. |
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* Bryan Steele, Janne Johansson, Kurt Mosiejczuk, Mike Belopuhov, Theo |
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Buehler, Todd Miller (OpenBSD), Andreas Gustafsson, Christos Zoulas, |
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Robert Elz, Thomas Klausner (NetBSD), Kurt Jaeger (FreeBSD), Fabio |
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Scotoni, Kelvin Sherlock, Mark Harris, Orestis Ioannou, Raf Czlonka, |
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and Sean Farrell for bug reports. |
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* Brian Callahan and Stuart Henderson (OpenBSD) for help |
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with the OpenBSD groff port. |
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* Bertrand Garrigues, Branden Robinson, Ralph Corderoy, and Werner |
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Lemberg (GNU troff) for checking groff patches. |
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* Scott Cheloha, Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD) |
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and Natanael Copa (Alpine Linux) for useful discussions. |
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Changes in version 1.14.4, released on August 8, 2018 |
Changes in version 1.14.4, released on August 8, 2018 |
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--- MAJOR NEW FEATURES --- |
--- MAJOR NEW FEATURES --- |