From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from localhost (fantadrom.bsd.lv [local]) by fantadrom.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id a41bcdab for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2019 05:23:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 05:23:28 -0500 (EST) X-Mailinglist: mandoc-source Reply-To: source@mandoc.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 From: schwarze@mandoc.bsd.lv To: source@mandoc.bsd.lv Subject: mandoc: draft 1.14.5 NEWS entry X-Mailer: activitymail 1.26, http://search.cpan.org/dist/activitymail/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Message-ID: Log Message: ----------- draft 1.14.5 NEWS entry Modified Files: -------------- mandoc: NEWS Revision Data ------------- Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.32 retrieving revision 1.33 diff -LNEWS -LNEWS -u -p -r1.32 -r1.33 --- NEWS +++ NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,75 @@ $Id$ This file lists the most important changes in the mandoc.bsd.lv distribution. +Changes in version 1.14.5, released on March XX, 2019 + --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES --- + * apropos(1): improve POSIX compliance by accepting case-insensitive + extended regular expressions by default + * new -O tag[=term] output option (open a page at the definition of a term) + * tbl(7) -T html: spanning and horizontal and vertical alignment of cells + * tbl(7) -T html: draw lines on the edges of table cells + * tbl(7) -T utf8: render lines with the Unicode box drawing characters + * mandoc is now able to handle the manual pages of the groff package. + --- MINOR NEW FEATURES --- + * -T html: new option -O toc (table of contents) + * -T html: second argument to -O man to support local and remote links + * mdoc(7) .Bd -centered now fills the text contained in it + * man-ext .SY and .YS macros (synopsis block) + * man-ext .TQ macro (tagged paragraph without vertical space before it) + * tbl(7) \& explicit alignment indicator + * roff(7) .shift, .while, and .return requests + * roff(7) .char request (output glyph definition) + * roff(7) .nop request (no operation) + * roff(7) .ft request: handle the CB, CI, and CR fonts + * roff(7) .if c conditional (character available) + * roff(7) \\$@ escape sequence (insert all macro arguments, quoted) + * roff(7) \*(.T predefined string (interpolate output device name) + * roff(7) \[charNNN] escape sequence (for printable ASCII characters) + * roff(7) \# escape sequence (line continuation with comment) + --- HTML OUTPUT SYNTAX CORRECTIONS --- + * Render .br and \p as
, not as an empty
. + * Render .Pp and .PP as

and automatically close it when needed. + * Stop writing empty list elements for non-compact .Bl -tag lists. + * Do not put

inside if .UR or .MT contain .PP. + * Implement tooltips purely in CSS rather than abusing title= attributes. + --- MINOR FUNCTIONAL IMPROVEMENTS --- + * many improvements to the handling of fill and no-fill mode + * tbl(7): better column widths in the presence of horizontal spans + * several minor improvements to escape sequence handling + * several minor improvements to manual font handling + * portability: autodetect need for _GNU_SOURCE or _OPENBSD_SOURCE + * portability: autodetect whether less(1) supports the -T option + * large numbers of bugfixes of diverse kinds + --- STRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENTS --- + * Disentangle eqn(7) and tbl(7) from other parser header files, + and clean up some parser data structures. + * Substantially simplify error and warning message infrastructure. + --- THANKS TO --- + * John Gardner for crucial help implementing tooltips in CSS. + * Alexander Bluhm, Raphael Graf, Ted Unangst (OpenBSD) + and Daniel Sabogal (Alpine Linux) for patches. + * Anthony Bentley and Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for documentation patches, + suggesting new features, bug reports, and useful discussions. + * Kyle Evans and Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD) for minor patches. + * Pali Rohar for suggesting multiple new features and for reporting + several bugs and missing features. + * Klemens Nanni (OpenBSD) for suggesting multiple new features. + * Kristaps Dzonsons (bsd.lv), Marc Espie (OpenBSD), Adam Kalisz, + and Laura Morales for suggesting new features. + * Wolfram Schneider and Yuri Pankov (FreeBSD) for reporting missing features. + * Edward Tomasz Napierala (FreeBSD) for suggesting a feature improvement. + * Bryan Steele, Janne Johansson, Kurt Mosiejczuk, Mike Belopuhov, Theo + Buehler, Todd Miller (OpenBSD), Andreas Gustafsson, Christos Zoulas, + Robert Elz, Thomas Klausner (NetBSD), Kurt Jaeger (FreeBSD), Fabio + Scotoni, Kelvin Sherlock, Mark Harris, Orestis Ioannou, Raf Czlonka, + and Sean Farrell for bug reports. + * Brian Callahan and Stuart Henderson (OpenBSD) for help + with the OpenBSD groff port. + * Bertrand Garrigues, Branden Robinson, Ralph Corderoy, and Werner + Lemberg (GNU troff) for checking groff patches. + * Scott Cheloha, Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD) + and Natanael Copa (Alpine Linux) for useful discussions. + Changes in version 1.14.4, released on August 8, 2018 --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES --- -- To unsubscribe send an email to source+unsubscribe@mandoc.bsd.lv