From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Debian-exim@smtp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.185.217]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7MCx2iE017061 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:59:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hekate.usta.de (asta-nat.asta.uni-karlsruhe.de [172.22.63.82]) by smtp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtp (Exim 4.63 #1) id 1OnA8a-0004Lr-TO; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:59:01 +0200 Received: from donnerwolke.usta.de ([172.24.96.3]) by hekate.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OnA8a-0007JC-SA for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:59:00 +0200 Received: from iris.usta.de ([172.24.96.5] helo=usta.de) by donnerwolke.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OnA8a-0000Xp-RR for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:59:00 +0200 Received: from schwarze by usta.de with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OnA8a-00078m-Jk for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:59:00 +0200 Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:59:00 +0200 From: Ingo Schwarze To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: A short mdoc history. Message-ID: <20100822125900.GB28394@iris.usta.de> References: <4C70F527.4090601@bsd.lv> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C70F527.4090601@bsd.lv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Hi Kristaps, > Can anybody provide a short history of the mdoc package? I'd like to > slap it into the HISTORY section once and for all. Ingo has already > provided a useful one for man.7. Checking the UNIX archive, i found that the following is correct as a starting point: The mdoc language first appeared as a macro package for the troff typesetting system in 4.4 BSD. In particular, tmac.an was present in 4.3 BSD, but tmac.doc was not. The original Berkeley Copyright in 4.4 BSD was: @(#)doc 5.11 (Berkeley) 7/14/92 > (This history should cover the re-write of mdoc.7 in 2000.) Hm, looking at groff-1.20.1/tmac/doc.tmac the file still has a Berkeley Copyright, @(#)doc 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/08/93 an then: .\" Modified by jjc@jclark.com as follows: the doc-* files are assumed to be .\" installed as mdoc/doc-* rather than tmac.doc-* (the filename .\" `tmac.doc-common' would be too long); when using groff, the doc-* files .\" are loaded using the `mso' request. .\" .\" Modified by .\" .\" Werner LEMBERG and .\" Ruslan Ermilov .\" .\" to make it more readable: using long names and many groff features, .\" updating and extending documentation, etc. Carelessly, this does not even state the Copyright years of the work done by James Clark, Werner Lemberg and Ruslan Ermilov... So it does not look like it was completely rewritten, rather, it says "modified". One would need to do more research on the GNU troff site and look at old groff distributions, but my time is out now... Yours, Ingo -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv