From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
To: Sascha Wildner <saw@online.de>
Cc: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: A short mdoc history.
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:14:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C714CE6.4050600@bsd.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C714B18.8050904@online.de>
Sascha Wildner wrote:
> On 8/22/2010 17:47, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote:
>> % mandoc -Owidth=68 mdoc.7
>> [snip]
>> HISTORY
>> The mdoc language first appeared as a troff macro package in
>> 4.4BSD. It was later significantly updated by Werner Lemberg
>> and Ruslan Ermilov in groff-1.20.1. The standalone
>> implementation that is part of the mandoc(1) utility written by
>> Kristaps Dzonsons appeared in OpenBSD 4.6.
>
> Hmm, updated in 1.20.1? I think it was already quite different at least
> in 1.19.1. Maybe the version number should be just left away until more
> is known.
The CVS log follows (version 1.2). It's under sticky tag 1.17 at the
earliest I can find. Can anybody make this more specific or give an ok?
Fri Mar 23 00:17:51 2001 UTC (9 years, 5 months ago) by wlemb
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.1: +6115 -3308 lines
Replaced mdoc implementation. The new version is `state of the
art', using almost all new features of groff 1.17 -- it won't run
with older versions.
* tmac/doc.tmac: Completely rewritten.
* tmac/doc-common: Ditto.
* tmac/doc-nroff: Ditto.
* tmac/doc-ditroff: Ditto.
* tmac/doc-syms: Ditto.
* tmac/mdoc.local: New file.
* tmac/groff_mdoc.samples.man: Replaced with ...
* tmac/groff_mdoc.reference.man: New file, covering mdoc completely.
* tmac/strip.sed: Updated.
* tmac/Makefile.sub: Updated.
* INSTALL: Updated.
* tmac/groff_man.man: Add `man.local' to the FILES section.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-22 10:00 Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-08-22 12:59 ` Ingo Schwarze
2010-08-22 15:47 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-08-22 16:06 ` Sascha Wildner
2010-08-22 16:14 ` Kristaps Dzonsons [this message]
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