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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2013-10-02 06:45:43 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2013-10-02 06:45:43 +0000 |
commit | 74d8b0fa85f3f75e909bfffeb29e4d0b6785c3d5 (patch) | |
tree | 110a63435d7dc3d1ebd88c0363bfad468bfa44b6 /index.sgml | |
parent | f2c0303080a61656bf524408528a5c2017910e6c (diff) | |
download | mandoc-74d8b0fa85f3f75e909bfffeb29e4d0b6785c3d5.tar.gz |
Merge from branch VERSION_1_12:
- mention that groff is GPL version 3
- link the new tbl.3.html
- list FreeBSD base version of mandoc
- document downstream versions
- copy the version 1.12.2 News
Diffstat (limited to 'index.sgml')
-rw-r--r-- | index.sgml | 118 |
1 files changed, 99 insertions, 19 deletions
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ pages whilst providing token support for <I>man</I>. </P> <P> - Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and all of which is GPL. It runs slowly, produces + Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and GPL version 3. It runs slowly, produces uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system. mdocml strives to fix this (respectively small, C, <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, fast and regular). </P> @@ -69,37 +69,46 @@ <TR> <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD> <TD> - <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc" CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A> + <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/contrib/mdocml" CLASS="external">contrib/mdocml</A> (1.12.1 sources) + <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/lib/libmandoc" CLASS="external">lib/libmandoc</A> + <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc" CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A> (build system) </TD> </TR> <TR> - <TD>FreeBSD</TD> + <TD>FreeBSD 10.0, -CURRENT</TD> <TD> - <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A> + <A HREF="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/mdocml/" CLASS="external">contrib/mdocml</A> (1.12.1 sources) + <A HREF="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/mandoc/" CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A> (build system) + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD>FreeBSD 9.x, 8.x</TD> + <TD> + <A HREF="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A> (1.12.1 port) </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>NetBSD</TD> <TD> - <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/" CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A> + <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/" CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A> (1.12.1 sources plus patches and build system) </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>OpenBSD</TD> <TD> - <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/" CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A> + <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/" CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A> (1.12.2 sources and build system) </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>pkgsrc</TD> <TD> - <A HREF="http://pkgsrc.se/textproc/mdocml" CLASS="external">textproc/mdocml</A> + <A HREF="http://pkgsrc.se/textproc/mdocml" CLASS="external">textproc/mdocml</A> (1.12.0 port) </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>Minix3</TD> <TD> - <A HREF="http://git.minix3.org/?p=minix.git;a=tree;f=external/bsd/mdocml" CLASS="external">external/bsd/mdocml</A> + <A HREF="http://git.minix3.org/?p=minix.git;a=tree;f=external/bsd/mdocml" CLASS="external">external/bsd/mdocml</A> (1.10.9 sources and build system) </TD> </TR> </TBODY> @@ -147,21 +156,27 @@ </TD> </TR> <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A></TD> + <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="tbl.3.html">tbl(3)</A></TD> <TD VALIGN="top"> - man language reference + roff table parser library for mandoc </TD> </TR> <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi(7)</A></TD> + <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn(7)</A></TD> <TD VALIGN="top"> - cgi for manpage query and display + eqn-mandoc language reference </TD> </TR> <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn(7)</A></TD> + <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A></TD> <TD VALIGN="top"> - eqn-mandoc language reference + man language reference + </TD> + </TR> + <TR> + <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi(7)</A></TD> + <TD VALIGN="top"> + cgi for manpage query and display </TD> </TR> <TR> @@ -243,16 +258,80 @@ <A NAME="news">News</A> </H1> <P CLASS="news"> - xx-xx-2012: version 1.12.4 - </P> - <P> - <I>Ingo, can you summarise your changes here?</I> + xx-xx-2013: version 1.13.0 </P> <P> - The <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> tools (<A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, <A + The <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> tools (<A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> (absorbing whatis), and <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A>) have been re-written to use <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.sqlite.org">sqlite3</A> as a database. </P> + <P CLASS="news"> + 01-10-2013: version 1.12.2 + </P> + <P> + The <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> to <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> converter, + to be called as <CODE>mandoc -Tman</CODE>, is now fully functional. + </P> + <P> + The <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A> utility now supports the <CODE>-Ios</CODE> (default operating system) + input option, and the <CODE>-Tutf8</CODE> output mode now actually works. + </P> + <P> + The <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb(8)</A> utility no longer truncates existing databases when starting to build new ones, + but only replaces them when the build actually succeeds. + </P> + <P> + The <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> parser now supports the <EM>PD</EM> macro (paragraph distance), + and (for GNU man-ext compatibility only) <EM>EX</EM> (example block) and <EM>EE</EM> (example end). + Plus several bugfixes regarding indentation, line breaks, and vertical spacing, + and regarding <EM>RS</EM> following <EM>TP</EM>. + </P> + <P> + The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> parser now supports the <EM>\f(BI</EM> (bold+italic) font escape, + the <EM>\z</EM> (zero cursor advance) escape and the <EM>cc</EM> (change control character) + and <EM>it</EM> (input line trap) requests. + Plus bugfixes regarding the <EM>\t</EM> (tab) escape, nested escape sequences, and conditional requests. + </P> + <P> + In <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A>, several bugs were fixed related to UTF-8 output of quoting enclosures, + delimiter handling, list indentation and horizontal and vertical spacing, + formatting of the <EM>Lk</EM>, <EM>%U</EM>, and <EM>%C</EM> macros, + plus some bugfixes related to the handling of syntax errors like badly nested font blocks, + stray <EM>Ta</EM> macros outside column lists, unterminated <EM>It Xo</EM> blocks, + and non-text children of <EM>Nm</EM> blocks. + </P> + <P> + In <A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl(7)</A>, the width of horizontal spans and the vertical spacing around tables was corrected, + and in <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> files, a crash was fixed that was triggered by some particular unclosed <EM>T{</EM> macros. + </P> + <P> + For mandoc developers, we now provide a <A HREF="tbl.3.html">tbl(3)</A> library manual and <CODE>gmdiff</CODE>, + a very small, very simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output comparison tool. + </P> + <P CLASS="news"> + 23-03-2011: version 1.12.1 + </P> + <P> + Significant work on <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> and <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>. These tools are + now much more robust. + A <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A> implementation is now handled as an <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> mode. + These tools are also able to minimally handle pre-formatted pages, that is, those already formatted by another utility + such as GNU troff. + </P> + <P> + The <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A> script is also now available for wider testing. It interfaces with <A + HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> manuals cached by <A HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>. HTML output is generated + on-the-fly by <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> or internal methods to convert pre-formatted pages. + </P> + <P> + The mailing list archive for the discuss and tech lists are being hosted by <A CLASS="external" + HREF="http://www.gmane.org">Gmane</A> at <A HREF="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user" + CLASS="external">gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user</A> and <A HREF="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel" + CLASS="external">gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel</A>, respectively. + </P> + <P> + Lastly, I'm no longer providing binaries, as nobody has asked for them. + </P> <P> See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for historical notes. @@ -261,6 +340,7 @@ <SMALL> Copyright © 2008–2011 <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>, + © 2013 Ingo Schwarze, $Date$ </SMALL> </P> |