* Fri Jan 14 2005 Eric S. Raymond - 2.1-1- Interrupt handlers are refactored so manlifter can be aborted with a single ^C; as a result, exit values 4 and 5 have swapped places. In manlifter, don\'t remove the result file unless we\'re in batchmode. Lifts 96% of 11121 pages in a full Fedora Core 3 install. * Fri Dec 24 2004 Eric S. Raymond - 2.0-1- Added manlifter to the distribution. doclifter no longer strips off file extensions before appending .xml. Major improvement in parsing of displays; C function prototypes are now recognized in them. * Sat Nov 20 2004 Eric S. Raymond - 1.15-1- Fix logic for flushing mdoc namediv. Handle tables within mdoc lists better. Strip out some pod2man-generated cliches. * Fri Sep 03 2004 Eric S. Raymond - 1.14-1- Added -e option to set encoding in the output XML. Documented required file extensions for mm, me, ms. Now lift some trivial uses of eqn(1) markup. Better handling of mm header markup. Interpret the X source distribution\'s local macros as a secondary markup. Nuke it\'s documented but apparently not actually defined. * Sat Aug 14 2004 Eric S. Raymond - 1.13-1- Manual date now goes in refentryinfo, as Steve Cheng suggested. Restored correct parsing of multicommand synopses. * Wed Jul 28 2004 Eric S. Raymond - 1.12-1- Implemented handling of mdoc .Brq macro. Code no longer chokes on multiple Synopsis headers. * Tue Jul 27 2004 Eric S. Raymond - 1.11-1- Speed optimizations. Improved pod2man detection. Close properly. .UN before .SH or .SS sets the XML ID of the generated section. Boldfaced lines immediately before tables are interpreted as titles. .UR now generates for local links. Improved .RE handling that fixes a couple of edge cases. Multiline table entries are now interpreted as full blocks, so commands work normally there. * Wed Jul 07 2004 Eric S. Raymond - 1.10-1- Enhance to handle lynx dump pages. Fix .Fa interpretation. Gets 96% of 10862 Fedora Core 2 pages. * Wed Jun 02 2004 Eric S. Raymond 1.9-1- John Franklin\'s support for the Vt macro in mdoc. Tuning for Psyco. * Mon Mar 01 2004 Eric S. Raymond 1.8-1- Avoid choking on malformed tables in Qt pages. Fix minor bug in handling of nested .if/.ie requests. Process Fa macro correctly. * Tue Feb 17 2004 Eric S. Raymond 1.7-1- Handle .Pa tags in synopses better. This version lifts 96% of 10316 man pages in a full Fedora Core 1 installation. * Fri Jan 02 2004 Eric S. Raymond 1.6-1- Simpler, better entity translation logic; the -s and -x options are gone. * Mon Dec 29 2003 Eric S. Raymond 1.5- Fixes to RPM packaging. * Fri Dec 26 2003 Eric S. Raymond 1.4- Handle .TQ reduction. Translate attempts to fake up double quotes in text with `` and \'\'. Catch a few more .RS/.RE cases. * Mon Dec 15 2003 Eric S. Raymond 1.3Process .RS/.RE tags to generate list nesting. As a side effect, this change fixes bad interactions between .ig and .TP. Fix a bug in gathering hints from function prologs. Use rather than for variables. Work around a common bug in ISC man pages. Evaluate one-line .el macros properly. * Mon Dec 08 2003 Eric S. Raymond 1.2- SGML-generation support removed; the -s and -x options now control whether troff special characters are translated to the ISO entity set or the XHTML entity set. Corrected a bug in processing of synopses with multiple commands. Handle \\f[012434] font changes in synopses correctly. -D option supports posting hints at startup time. Better recognition of filenames and commands in running text. Error return values now convey more information. * Thu Dec 04 2003 Eric S. Raymond 1.1- Fixed a bug in conditional evaluation that twadmin(8) tickled. Better detection of pure inclusions. Better blank-section elimination. Kleene star recognized as ... synonym in command synopses. Correct some bugs in semantic-hint collection. Limited internationalization -- recognize \"NAME\" in a couple of different languages. Recognize Qt manual pages and use their conventions. Better lifting of mandoc-generated pages. Translate groff-style \\[...] escapes, flag unknown ones. Can now parse K&R style function prototypes as well as ANSI ones. This version lifts 96% of 9829 manual pages in a full Red Hat 9 installation with Fedora updates to *validated * XML-DocBook. * Thu Nov 20 2003 Eric S. Raymond 1.0.6- Lots of changes made so the XML output will pass validation. Appropriately wrap sequences generated from SEE ALSO. Clean up generated tags when we don\'t find a function or command synopsis. Push back folded highlights so paragraph generation doesn\'t get screwed up. Don\'t generate invalid class attribute for and . The .RS command no longer ends a .IP or .TP entry. Correct .Ql so it doesn\'t generate spurious line breaks. Fix a bug in syntax processing. Declare , and in-line tags (avoids fooups in processing mdoc). Fix lexer bug that dropped a character after triple-quote in tokens. Evaluate groff-style \\\ [...] register escapes, \\\ (.$., \\w, and .g. Generate IDs correctly even when section titles are in CJK. Accept options starting with +. The mdoc interpreter can now deal with an out-of-order Synopsis section. This version lifts 94% of 9829 manual pages in a full Red Hat 9 installation with Fedora updates. * Wed Oct 22 2003 Eric S. Raymond 1.0.5- Translate Version 8 .L macro and friends. Fix some minor markup problems in doclifter.xml. * Tue Mar 18 2003 Eric S. Raymond 1.0.4- Improved synopsis line detection. Added Berkely Bsx. Ox, Nx macros. Implemented extended groff ab, als, nop and return requests. Some effort is now made to identify markup that refers to section headers and lift it to link tags (by Aaron Hawley). Corrected erroneous handling of string quotes around request arguments. Implemented mdoc .Ex and .Rv macros. Better handling of \\d, \\u, and \\v troff requests. * Fri Feb 14 2003 Eric S. Raymond 1.0.3- Enable translation of PIC diagrams using pic2plot. Lift highlighted . *_t and errno appropriately. Implemented .fam and \\F groff extensions. Improved synopsis line detection. Interpret DS/DE in manual pages (it\'s illegal but unambiguous). Work around common error of putting an opening \' at the left margin. This version lifts 96% of 6705 manual pages in a Red Hat 8.0 install. * Thu Feb 13 2003 Eric S. Raymond 1.0.2- Corrected a bug in processing of the .SM highlight on manual pages. This affects other font changers with two-character names, notably CW. * Wed Sep 18 2002 Eric S. Raymond 1.0.1- Prevent some false matches on mwww macros. Don\'t generate entity inclusion files into the internal set; Tim Waugh says it\'s not necessary and indeed it seems not to be when I\'m using xmlto. * Sun Aug 18 2002 Eric S. Raymond 1.0.0- Better firewalling against unbalanced font changes -- unbalanced markup can no longer break the translation. Drastically improved parsing of function prototypes. Support for mwww macros. Added groff-1.18\'s euro and micro signs. Also now interpreting various historical fossils from Ultrix and elsewhere that show up on Linux manual pages. This version lifts 95% of the 5548 man pages in a full Red Hat 7.3 workstation install. * Wed Jul 31 2002 Eric S. Raymond 0.99- C declaration parsing for sections 2 and 3 by Pradeep Padala. Improvements in command-synopsis parsing. Applied Michael Smith\'s XML-compliance patch. Default changed to XML to go with 7.3 toolchain. Added -s option. This version lifts 97% of 4253 man pages in a full Red Hat 7.3 install. * Tue Jul 16 2002 Eric S. Raymond 0.95- Point release for Pradeep Padala. Added Windows port fix. Better command marking from synopsis sections. Oops, allow tildes in URLs. We can handle multiple stacked .TP entries now. Implement groff mso, ignore ftr. Crude, non-semantic lifting of function synopses. * Fri Nov 09 2001 Eric S. Raymond 0.9- Add mm support. Resolve Latin 1 and Latin 2 entities correctly. Don\'t let line numbering be confused by saved sections. Handle non-syntactic [] in optional filename extensions. Improved generation of included entities. * Mon Nov 05 2001 Eric S. Raymond 0.8- Catch and foil attempts to rename immutable macros. Better handling of unbalanced highlights. Multiple name lines are now passed through with the first one parsed. 96% success on sections 1 and 8 of a full Red Hat install. * Wed Oct 31 2001 Eric S. Raymond 0.7- Multiple vertically-stacked hanging tags are now translated into Synopsis sections. Mdoc bibliography macros are supported. Paragraphed text in Synopsis sections is now handled. Tcl/Tk extension macros are processed. 92% success on section 1 of a full Red Hat install. * Fri Oct 19 2001 Eric S. Raymond 0.6- Better handling of weird highlight and paragraphing combinations. * Wed Oct 03 2001 Eric S. Raymond 0.5- Support for Berkeley mdoc. * Thu Sep 06 2001 Eric S. Raymond 0.4- Don\'t rely on compilerlike.py being available. * Wed Sep 05 2001 Eric S. Raymond 0.3- More steps towards mandoc interpretation. Checkpoint release for Jorge Godoy and Jeffrey Franks. * Sat Sep 01 2001 Eric S. Raymond 0.2- Extra arguments of .TH are now passed through. \\c is now handled properly rather than just being nuked. Now formats a dozen or so more problem pages. Magic inclusion semantics and -I. Full support for extended groff_char(7) characters. Implemented .tr. * Tue Aug 28 2001 Eric S. Raymond 0.1- Initial build. * Fri Aug 17 2001 Eric S. Raymond 0.0- First RCS commit. Project launched
