mandoc: first steps toward the 1.14.4 release

mandoc: first steps toward the 1.14.4 release

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first steps toward the 1.14.4 release

Modified Files:
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    mandoc:
        INSTALL
        LICENSE
        NEWS

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Index: INSTALL
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RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/INSTALL,v
retrieving revision 1.20
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -LINSTALL -LINSTALL -u -p -r1.20 -r1.21
--- INSTALL
+++ INSTALL
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tech@ mailing list, too.
 
 Enjoy using the mandoc toolset!
 
-Ingo Schwarze, Karlsruhe, July 2017
+Ingo Schwarze, Karlsruhe, August 2018
 
 
 Installation
@@ -83,12 +83,14 @@ apropos(1) will not find the new pages.
 
 10. To set up a man.cgi(8) server, read its manual page.
 
-Note that some man(7) pages may contain low-level roff(7) markup
-that mandoc does not yet understand.  On some BSD systems using
-mandoc, third-party software is vetted on whether it may be formatted
-with mandoc.  If not, groff(1) is pulled in as a dependency and
-used to install a pre-formatted "catpage" instead of directly as
-manual page source.
+Note that a very small number of man(7) pages contain low-level
+roff(7) markup that mandoc does not yet understand.  On some BSD
+systems using mandoc, third-party software is vetted on whether it
+may be formatted with mandoc.  If not, groff(1) is pulled in as a
+dependency and used to install pre-formatted "catpages" instead of
+manual page sources.  This mechanism is used much less frequently
+than in the past.  On OpenBSD, only 25 out of about 10000 ports
+still require formatting with groff(1).
 
 
 Understanding mandoc dependencies
Index: LICENSE
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RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/LICENSE,v
retrieving revision 1.18
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -LLICENSE -LLICENSE -u -p -r1.18 -r1.19
--- LICENSE
+++ LICENSE
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ contained in the mandoc toolkit is prote
 of the following developers:
 
 Copyright (c) 2008-2012, 2014 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
-Copyright (c) 2010-2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
+Copyright (c) 2010-2018 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
 Copyright (c) 1999, 2004, 2017 Marc Espie <espie@openbsd.org>
 Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@netbsd.org>
 Copyright (c) 2013 Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de>
Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.27
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -LNEWS -LNEWS -u -p -r1.27 -r1.28
--- NEWS
+++ NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,77 @@ $Id$
 
 This file lists the most important changes in the mandoc.bsd.lv distribution.
 
+Changes in version 1.14.4, released on August XXX, 2018
+
+    --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
+ * In ASCII output, render mathematical symbols and greek letters
+   as transliterations conveying the characters' meanings rather
+   than trying to imitate their shape.  Consequently, such characters
+   can now be used in portable manual pages.  All the same, please
+   limit their use to contexts where they really matter, for example
+   when showing complicated mathematical formulae.
+ * First steps towards better support for small screens in HTML
+   output (responsive design): avoid most style= attributes, in
+   particular all hard-coded indentations and column widths, and
+   provide a better mandoc.css style sheet with a @media query,
+   using em units throughout, and avoiding redundancy in selectors.
+ * Better HTML output with some more fitting HTML elements, eliminating
+   needless class= attributes, and avoiding various HTML syntax errors
+   (element nesting, URL-fragment syntax, duplicate id= attributes).
+    --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
+ * When a man(1) argument contains a slash, imply -l like in man-db.
+ * Use TIOCGWINSZ to reduce the default -Owidth and -Oindent during
+   interactive use on terminals narrower than 79 columns.
+ * Generated PostScript files are now more than 50% smaller.
+ * Terminal rendering of eqn(7) is improved in several respects.
+ * Simplified and nicer output from the mdoc(7) .Lk macro, formatting
+   all links in-line, even long ones.
+ * roff(7) \n+ and \n- numerical register auto-increment and -decrement
+ * roff(7) .nr optional third argument (auto-increment step size)
+    --- RELIABILITY BUGFIXES ---
+ * Only activate UTF-8 output when the user really selected UTF-8,
+   not some other multibyte character encoding.
+ * Prevent excessive .ll arguments from generating infinite output.
+ * Avoid an assertion failure in certain .Bl -column lists.
+ * Avoid a NULL pointer access on deroff() failure after '.SS ""'.
+ * Fix a segfault that could be triggered by two invalid .Dt macros.
+ * Fix two syntax errors in generated PDF files.
+ * Properly state the page size in generated PostScript files.
+ * Close a memory leak caused by missing gzclose(3).
+ * Fix misformatting of man(7) documents lacking .SH macros
+   in PostScript and PDF output.
+ * And many minor bugfixes.
+    --- THANKS TO ---
+ * Marc Espie (OpenBSD) for implementing the size reduction of
+   PostScript files, one additional patch for code simplification,
+   and two bug reports.
+ * Theo Buehler (OpenBSD) for a bugfix patch,
+   and Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD) for checking it.
+ * John Gardner for more than a dozen suggestions regarding HTML output.
+ * Mike Williams for teaching me how to use %%DocumentMedia and
+   setpagedevice in PostScript files.
+ * Werner Lemberg (groff) for feedback on mdoc(7) language changes.
+ * Colin Watson (man-db) for feedback on man-db semantics.
+ * Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for lots of feedback and suggestions
+   on diagnostic messages and on the documentation.
+ * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for suggesting two new style messages,
+   one new feature, and for two bug reports.
+ * Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for suggesting a new style message
+   and for two bug reports.
+ * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for reporting multiple bugs and missing
+   features.
+ * Paul Irofti (OpenBSD) and Nate Bargmann for suggesting new features.
+ * Christian Weisgerber, Jonathan Gray, Stuart Henderson, Ted Unangst
+   (OpenBSD), Takeshi Nakayama (NetBSD), Michael Stapelberg (Debian),
+   Anton Lazarov, Jakub Klinkovsky, Jan Stary, Jesper Wallin,
+   Will Backmam, and Wolfgang Mueller for bug reports.
+ * Sevan Janiyan (NetBSD) for additions to lib.in.
+ * George Brown for suggesting code simplifications.
+ * David Coppa, Igor Sobrado (OpenBSD), and Alexander Kuleshov
+   for documentation improvements.
+ * Laura Morales and Raf Czlonka for questions resulting in better
+   documentation.
+
 Changes in version 1.14.3, released on August 5, 2017
 
     --- BUG FIXES ---
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