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Import 1.14.4

This file lists the most important changes in the mandoc.bsd.lv distribution.

Changes in version 1.14.4, released on August 8, 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)
* Autodetect in ./configure whether the compiler can use -W and -static,
allowing to build on Solaris 10 and 11 without any configure.local.
--- 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.
* Fix out of bounds accesses to parse buffers that could happen when
using renamed or user defined macros after roff(7) conditionals.
* 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
and one new feature, for two bug reports, and for release testing.
* Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for suggesting a new style message,
five bug reports, and release testing.
* Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for reporting multiple bugs and missing
features.
* Paul Irofti (OpenBSD) and Nate Bargmann for suggesting new features.
* Michael Stapelberg (Debian) for bug reports and release testing.
* Christian Weisgerber, Jonathan Gray, Stuart Henderson,
Ted Unangst (OpenBSD), Takeshi Nakayama (NetBSD),
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.
* Yuri Pankov (illumos) for release testing.

Changes in version 1.14.3, released on August 5, 2017

--- BUG FIXES ---
* man(7): Do not crash with out-of-bounds read access to a constant
array if .sp or a blank line immediately precedes .SS or .SH.
* mdoc(7): Do not crash with out-of-bounds read access to a constant
array if .sp or a blank line precede the first .Sh macro.
* tbl(7): Ignore explicitly specified negative column widths rather than
wrapping around to huge numbers and risking memory exhaustion.
* man(1): No longer use names that only occur in the SYNOPSIS section.
Gets rid of some surprising behaviour and bogus warnings.
--- THANKS TO ---
Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux), Markus Waldeck (Debian),
Peter Bui (nd.edu), and Yuri Pankov (illumos) for bug reports.

Changes in version 1.14.2, released on July 28, 2017

--- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
* New mdoc(7) -Tmarkdown output mode.
* For -Thtml, implement internal hyperlinks pointing to authoritative
definitions of various syntax elements, similar to the ctags(1)-like
less(1) :t internal searching in terminal mode.
* Provide a superset of the functionality of the former mdoclint(1)
utility and a new -Wstyle message level with several new messages,
including validity checking of .Xr cross references.
* tbl(7): Implement automatic line breaking inside individual table
cells, and several other formatting improvements.
* eqn(7): Complete rewrite of the lexer, resulting in several bugfixes.
* Continue parser unification, in particular allowing generation
of syntax tree nodes on the roff(7) level, allowing implementation
of many additional roff requests.
--- REMOVED FUNCTIONALITY ---
* Delete the manpage(1) utility. It was never enabled in any release.
* Delete the -Txhtml command line option. It has been an obsolete
alias for the -Thtml output mode for more than two years.
--- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
* -Tlint now puts parser messages on stdout instead of stderr,
making commands like "man -l -Tlint *.1" useful.
* mdoc(7): Various .Lk formatting improvements.
* mdoc(7) -Thtml: Better CSS for .Bl lists.
* man(7): Implement the .MT/.ME block macro (mailto hyperlink).
* man(7): Implement the .DT macro (restore default tab positions).
* man(7): Improved support for manuals generated with reStructuredText
by partial support for the \n[an-margin] number register.
* man(7) -Thtml: Support deep linking to .SH and .SS headers.
* tbl(7): Implement the "allbox" table option.
* tbl(7): Implement the column spacing and the 'w' (minimum column
width) layout modifiers.
* tbl(7): Significant improvements of the manual page.
* eqn(7): Much improved font selection, including recognition of
well-known function names, and a few other formatting improvements.
* eqn(7) -Thtml: Use <mn> and <mo> in addition to <mi>.
* roff(7): Implement the .ce (centering), .mc (margin character),
.rj (right justify), .ta (define tab stops), .ti (temporary indent),
.als (macro alias), .ec and .eo (escape character control),
.po (page offset), and .rn (macro rename) requests.
* roff(7) .am: Implement appending to mdoc(7) and man(7) macros.
* roff(7): implement the \h (horizontol motion), \l (horizontal
line drawing), and \p (break output line) escape sequences,
and also several additional character escape sequences.
* roff(7): Implement the 'd' conditional (macro or string defined).
* man.cgi(8) now uses pledge(2), too.
* regress.pl(1): simpler user interface, better summary output,
simpler code, and no more recursion.
--- THANKS TO ---
* Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for the implementation of .MT/.ME,
reports of many bugs and missing features, and suggestions
for a number of feature and documentation improvements.
* Sebastien Marie (OpenBSD) for two source code patches and
for some useful discussions.
* Florian Obser (OpenBSD) for a bugfix patch and a bug report.
* Jonathan Gray (OpenBSD) for several bug reports from afl(1)
and several more from static analysis tools.
* Theo Buehler (OpenBSD) for several bug reports, most from afl(1).
* Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for many useful discussions about a
wide variety of topics, lots of continuous testing, a number of
bug reports, and some suggestions for messages and documentation.
* Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for lots of help while migrating
mdoclint(1) functionality to mandoc -Tlint, for suggesting
several useful new messages, and for release testing.
* Reyk Floeter (OpenBSD) and Vsevolod Stakhov (FreeBSD) for
suggesting a markdown output mode.
* Thomas Guettler for suggesting -Thtml internal hyperlinks.
* Yuri Pankov (Illumos) for inspiring new warning messages and
for extensive release testing.
* Anton Lindqvist and TJ Townsend (both OpenBSD) and Jan Stary
for multiple bug reports.
* Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for bug reports and release testing.
* Michael Stapelberg (Debian) for suggesting feature improvements
and for release testing.
* Martin Natano and Theo de Raadt (both OpenBSD), Andreas Voegele,
Gabriel Guzman, Gonzalo Tornaria, Markus Waldeck, and Raf Czlonka
for bug reports.
* Antoine Jacoutot (OpenBSD) and Steffen Nurpmeso for suggesting
feature improvements.
* Dag-Erling Smoergrav (FreeBSD) for inspiring new warning messages.
* Ted Unangst and Marc Espie (OpenBSD) for providing useful ideas.
* Svyatoslav Mishyn (Crux Linux) for release testing.
* Carsten Kunze (Heirloom roff) for help keeping mandoc and groff
compatible and for committing some of my patches to groff.