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 released 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 Anticipated/Contemplated make source translation work on Digital UNIX better--just tweaks now fix up other output formats to work well with source parsing ??-??? SGML/XML output format (DTD found at long last), validated by sgmls/sp