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Brendan O'Dea authored
Previously CW was used, but this is no longer supported by groff, and it seems was _never_ really supported in a portable way. https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21239#issuecomment-1645998105
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Version 1.50 February 2, 2025
* Use \f(CR for monospace text when using groff in troff mode (CW, which was
used previously is no longer supported by groff).
Version 1.49 December 20, 2022
* Use @samp{} around the option in the menu description for "--help
recommendations" to avoid rendering the -- as endash.
* Don't translate @documentencoding.
* Fall back to forking iconv for encodings which are not supported by
Perl's Encode module.
* Add Korean and Georgian translations of manual page.
Version 1.48 February 6, 2021
* Add Serbian, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese (simplified)
translations of info documentation.
* Add Tamil and Chinese (simplified) translations.
* Move table of contents to the top of the texi file so that it appears
in the correct location in the html page.
* Use the package name and version as the default for --source (was
program).
* Support packages in version strings without the GNU or Free prefix.
* Allow an optional second dash to separate the package name from the
version for multi-word packages: "program - package name - version".
* Suppress creation of an empty pkglibdir when nls is disabled.
* Fix ordering of "other" sections in manual page.
* Use POSIX compliant TZ when setting UTC (thanks to Paul Eggert).
Version 1.47 June 9, 2015
* Set document language for localised info pages.
* Add French and Spanish translations of info documentation.
* Add Spanish and Danish translations.
* Add support for reproducible builds by using $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH as the
date for the generated pages.
Version 1.46 July 7, 2014
* Add German, Ukranian and Polish translations of info documentation.
* Add Hungarian and Norwegian Bokmaal translations.
Version 1.45 March 24, 2014
* Add recognition of explicit section headings indicated with *Heading*.
* Improve handling of tagged paragraphs when body is on a following line.
* Add escapes to adjust spacing of italic text at roman/italic boundaries.
Version 1.44 February 2, 2014
* Parse option lines in the header section of include files using shell word
splitting which allows quoting of multiple words and backslash-escaping of
spaces.
Version 1.43 Jun 4, 2013
* Add explicit include syntax for prepending, replacing or appending to
generated output for a section.
Version 1.42 May 28, 2013
* Consistently strip path and/or libtool `lt-' prefix from program
name.
Version 1.41 December 31, 2012
* Set filenames in italics.
* Suppress option/filename handling in EXAMPLES section.
* Add Croatian translation.
* Add Serbian translation.
Version 1.40 May 28, 2011
* Update texinfo docs.
* Document --libtool option.
* Allow date format to be localised.
* Add Japanese translation.
Version 1.39 March 8, 2011
* Add --libtool option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs.
* Add Ukranian translation.
* Add Esperanto translation.
Version 1.38 April 26, 2010
* Support ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections.
* Move all translated text into .po files (previously .h2m include
files were handled seperately).
* Submit package to the Translation Project (translationproject.org).
* Add Vietnamese translation.
* Add some comments for translators.
Version 1.37 November 14, 2009
* Update GPL to v3.
* Add --version-string option.
* Add --no-discard-stderr option.
* Add line breaks into bug reporting section.
* Add Brazilian Portuguese and German translations.
* Select a reasonable configure default for --enable-nls.
* Revise preload mechanism to not require preloadable libintl.
Version 1.36 October 17, 2005
* Add default territory to --locale option.
* Add Finnish translations.
Version 1.35 November 25, 2004
* Set program name to the first word of NAME paragraph in --include
file if given.
Version 1.34 November 20, 2004
* Escape all unescaped hyphens in output.
* Convert parenthesised options, eg (-F).
* Fix info section in SEE ALSO to use $program rather than
$info_page when referring to the program.
Version 1.33 July 18, 2003
* Add Polish translations.
* Support for localised "Usage:" output.
* configure: add --disable-nls option; verify gettext support.
Version 1.32 July 10, 2003
* Set modification time on generated help2man script so that generation
of man pages is dependent only on changes to the source help2man.PL
script.
Version 1.31 July 9, 2003
* Check for errors writing to output page.
Version 1.30 July 9, 2003
* Support for localised manual pages has been added (--locale option).
Version 1.29 September 7, 2002
* Change info category to "GNU programming support".
Version 1.28 June 4, 2002
* Add --info-page option.
Version 1.27 March 19, 2002
* Allow short and long options to be separated by multiple spaces
rather than a comma.
Version 1.26 March 9, 2002
* Documentation updates giving suggested --help output.
Version 1.25 December 3, 2001
* New --source and --manual options to allow the page headers and
footers to be specified.
* New --help-option and --version-option options to cater for programs
which don't support the standard --help and --version.
Version 1.24 December 22, 2000
* Allow options to be specified in the initial block of include files.
Version 1.23 October 31, 2000
* Escape leading apostrophes.
Version 1.022 July 7, 2000
* help2man is now officially a GNU program. Add bug reporting
address and `GNU' prefix.
* configure now checks for `perl5' as well as `perl'.
Version 1.021 April 16, 2000
* Create directories if required (Makefile).
Version 1.020 December 30, 1999
* Remove directory from command name(s) in synopsis.
Version 1.019 November 3, 1999
* Sadly, 2+ spaces *are* required to unambiguously separate options
from descriptions.
Version 1.018 November 1, 1999
* Recognise additional synopsis lines without requiring `or:' prefix.
* Adjust option tagged paragraph matching so that the first option
argument does not require an `='.
Version 1.017 October 27, 1999
* Allow --include to be used multiple times.
* Include files may now contain `/pattern/' which will append the text
following to any paragraph which matches the pattern.
Version 1.016 October 25, 1999
* Handle indenting/continuation of things which look like options
separately. This removes the requirement for 2+ spaces between
option and description, allows the description to occur on the line
below the option and relaxes the indent matching rules for continued
lines.