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diff --git a/nx-X11/extras/rman/CHANGES b/nx-X11/extras/rman/CHANGES new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9118abad7 --- /dev/null +++ b/nx-X11/extras/rman/CHANGES @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +1993 + 1 Apr as bs2tk posted to comp.lang.tcl (126 lines) + 2 bullets, change bars, copyright symbol + 5 boldface, other SGI nicks + 7 skip unrecognized escape codes +10 small caps +13 underscores considered uppercase so show up in default small caps font + screen out Ultrix junk (code getting pretty tangled now) +14 until Tk text has better tab support, replace tabs by spaces until get to next tab stop (for Ultrix); -t gives tabstop spacing +20 Solaris support (Larry Tsui) + 3 Jun section subheading parsing (Per-Erik Martin) +28 hyphenated man pages in SEE ALSO show up correctly in Links (Mike Steele) +13 Jul under FILES, fully qualified path names are added to Links, but this taken out immediately because not useful +14 option to keep changebars on right (Warren Jessop) + 5 Aug search for header, footer dynamically--no need to edit or search large list of patterns +11 -m kicks in man page formatting beyond nroff backspace kludges +27 handle double digit numbers better by trying again relative to end of line +19 Sep -T gives Tk extras (otherwise ASCII only) + -H gives headers only (implies -T off) +10 Oct -r reverse compiles to [tn]roff source (as Geoff Collyer's nam and fontch, but leveraging existing analysis so only addition of ~60 lines) (The code is device-driver obscure now--obfuscated C contest next.) +13 header and footer optionally available at bottom in Tk view (Marty Leisner) +19 "reflected" odd and even page headers&footers zapped +20 keep count of sections and subsections, using smaller font for larger numbers + 1 Nov reverse compiles to Ensemble, except for character ranges + 4 started rman rewrite for cleaner support of multiple output targets, including: plain ascii, headers only, TkMan, [nt]roff, Ensemble, SGML, HTML + 5 line filtering separated from other logic despite greater sophistication, RosettaMan faster than bs2tk (!) +28 Dec man page reference recognition (Michael Harrison) + + +1994 + 1 Jan identify descriptive lists by comparing scnt2 with s_avg + 3 tail-end table of contents in HTML documents + 5 -f <filter> and LaTeX output mode +24 proof-of-concept RTF output mode +26 handle man pages that don't have a header on the first page +28 parse "handwritten" man pages +22 Feb alpha version released + 6 Mar various bug fixes +10 beta version released +13 Jun fixed surious generation on <DL>'s (the existence of which pointed out by David Sibley) +22 Jul table recognition experiment. works reasonably well, except for tables with centered headers + 3 Aug allow for off-by-one (and -two) in identification of header and footer + fixed problem with recurrent/leftover text with OSF/1 bold bullets (yeesh) +12 Sep 2.0gamma released +13 check for *third* header, possibly centered, possibly after blank lines (Charles Anderson) + fixed tag ranges for lines following blank lines (just \n) of pages with global indentation (Owen Rees) +19 fixed two small problems with LaTeX (^ => \^, \bullet => $\bullet$) (Neal Becker) +24 simple check for erroneously being fed roff source +26 deal with bold +- as in ksh (ugh) +30 2.0delta released + 9 Oct special check for OSF to guard against section head interpreted as footer + 8 Nov Perl pod output format (result still needs work, but not much) + 7 Dec 2.0epsilon released (last one before final 2.0) +22 Happy Winter Solstice! 2.0 released + deprecated gets() replaced (Robert Withrow) +25 TkMan module's $w.show => $t, saving about 9% in generated characters + + +1995 + 1 Jan experiment with TkMan output to take advantage of my hack to Tk text (i.e., $t insert end "text" => $t insert end "text1" tag1 "text2" tag2 ...); results => output size reduced about 25%, time reduced about 12-15% +25 Mar back to old mark command for Tk module +8 May hyphens in SEE ALSO section would confuse link-finder, so re-linebreak if necessary(!) (Greg Earle & Uri Guttman) + 4 Aug put formats and options into tables (inspired by Steve Maguire's Writing Solid Code) +19 -V accepts colon-separated list of valid volume names (Dag Nygren) +22 MIME output format that's usable in Emacs 19.29 (just three hours at hacking HTML module) (Neal Becker) + 9 Sep nits in HTML and better Solaris code snippets (Drazen Kacar) +13 Nov Macintosh port by Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> +18 Dec adapted to LaTeX2e, null manRef yields italicized man ref (H. Palme) +28 allow long option names (Larry Schwimmer) + + +1996 +22 Jan fixed problem with hyphenation supression and tabs in man page--sheesh! (H. Palme) +23 May split TkMan format into Tk and TkMan (which calls Tk) +25 in TkMan format, initial spaces converted to tabs +24 Sep experiment with formatting from source's macros, for better transcription short of full nroff interpreter +27 commented out Ensemble output format, which nobody used + 2 Oct >4000 lines +11 + 8 Nov release 3.0 alpha. source code parsing works well for Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX; in generating HTML +25 recognize URLs (Mic Campanel) + + +1997 +19 Mar bug fixes, more special characters (roff expert Larry Jones) + 8 Aug renamed to PolyglotMan + 4 Nov TkMan module: Rebus and NoteMark identification for paragraph lengths and command line options taken over from Tcl (still have search, highlight in Tcl, necessarily) (Chad Loder) + >5000 lines, or nearly 40X the lines of code of version 1.0 (which just supported TkMan) + + +1998 +20 Mar automatic detection of Tcl/Tk source (within automatic detection of source; already had within formatted) + centralize casifying SH and SS for formatted and source + group exception table by category +17 Apr in source translation, pass along comment lines too +20 incorporate (RCS) versioning diff's, for HTML + + +2000 +22 Jun eliminate last of encumbered code, release as Open Source + release version 3.0.9 + + +2002 +24 Aug used in Apple's OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) to convert manual pages for display in Project Builder + + +2003 +28 Mar updated for groff 1.18's new escape codes + remove Ensemble output format, which is obsolete + remove Texinfo output format, which is not useful + HTML tags in lowercase + released version 3.1 + 5 Jun applied Aaron Hawley's patches for DocBook XML + 6 Jul assume HTML browsers support full set of entity references + discontinue support for Mac OS 9 and earlier (compiles out of the box on OS X) +25 tags well nested for troff source input (at last!) +26 release version 3.2 |