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List:       mandoc-discuss
Subject:    Re: A short mdoc history.
From:       Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps () bsd ! lv>
Date:       2010-08-22 16:14:30
Message-ID: 4C714CE6.4050600 () bsd ! lv
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Sascha Wildner wrote:
> On 8/22/2010 17:47, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote:
>> % mandoc -Owidth=68 mdoc.7
>> [snip]
>> HISTORY
>>       The mdoc language first appeared as a troff macro package in
>>       4.4BSD.  It was later significantly updated by Werner Lemberg
>>       and Ruslan Ermilov in groff-1.20.1.  The standalone
>>       implementation that is part of the mandoc(1) utility written by
>>       Kristaps Dzonsons appeared in OpenBSD 4.6.
> 
> Hmm, updated in 1.20.1? I think it was already quite different at least
> in 1.19.1. Maybe the version number should be just left away until more
> is known.

The CVS log follows (version 1.2).  It's under sticky tag 1.17 at the
earliest I can find.  Can anybody make this more specific or give an ok?

Fri Mar 23 00:17:51 2001 UTC (9 years, 5 months ago) by wlemb
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.1: +6115 -3308 lines

Replaced mdoc implementation.  The new version is `state of the
art', using almost all new features of groff 1.17 -- it won't run
with older versions.

* tmac/doc.tmac: Completely rewritten.
* tmac/doc-common: Ditto.
* tmac/doc-nroff: Ditto.
* tmac/doc-ditroff: Ditto.
* tmac/doc-syms: Ditto.
* tmac/mdoc.local: New file.
* tmac/groff_mdoc.samples.man: Replaced with ...
* tmac/groff_mdoc.reference.man: New file, covering mdoc completely.
* tmac/strip.sed: Updated.
* tmac/Makefile.sub: Updated.
* INSTALL: Updated.

* tmac/groff_man.man: Add `man.local' to the FILES section.
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