* Fri Jan 14 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 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.
- 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.
pkgsrc:
manlifter not installed yet, since it only works when run as "./manlifter"
and drop maintainership, since I don't longer use it
changes:
* Sat Nov 20 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 1.15-1
- Fix logic for flushing mdoc namediv. Handle tables within mdoc lists better.
Strip out some pod2mam-generated cliches.
* Thu Sep 2 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 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.
* Tue Jul 27 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@golux.thyrsus.com> - 1.12-1
- Implemented handling of mdoc .Brq macro. Code no longer chokes on
multiple Synopsis headers.
* Mon Jul 26 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 1.11-1
- Speed optimizations. Improved pod2man detection. Close <anchor/> 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 <link> 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.
* Tue Jul 6 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 1.10-1
- Enhance to handle lynx dump pages. Fix .Fa interpretation.
Gets 96% of 10862 Fedora Core 2 pages.
The doclifter program translates documents written in troff macros to DocBook.
Lifting documents from presentation level to semantic level is hard, and
a really good job requires human polishing. This tool aims to do everything
that can be mechanized, and to preserve any troff-level information that might
have structural implications in XML comments.
This tool does most of the hard parts, but not all. TBL tables diagrams are
translated into DocBook table markup and and PIC into SVG, but EQN is not
translated.
Test loads are included in the distribution. The code has been tested in about
the most brutal possible way; it has been run against every single man page
in all sections of a full installation of Red Hat 9 with Fedore Core 1 updates.
It lifts 96% of 9836 pages without requiring any hand-hacking required.
