1 Version 1.45 March 24, 2014
3 * Add recognition of explicit section headings indicated with *Heading*.
4 * Improve handling of tagged paragraphs when body is on a following line.
5 * Add escapes to adjust spacing of italic text at roman/italic boundaries.
7 Version 1.44 February 2, 2014
9 * Parse option lines in the header section of include files using shell word
10 splitting which allows quoting of multiple words and backslash-escaping of
13 Version 1.43 Jun 4, 2013
15 * Add explicit include syntax for prepending, replacing or appending to
16 generated output for a section.
18 Version 1.42 May 28, 2013
20 * Consistently strip path and/or libtool `lt-' prefix from program
23 Version 1.41 December 31, 2012
25 * Set filenames in italics.
26 * Suppress option/filename handling in EXAMPLES section.
27 * Add Croatian translation.
28 * Add Serbian translation.
30 Version 1.40 May 28, 2011
32 * Update texinfo docs.
33 * Document --libtool option.
34 * Allow date format to be localised.
35 * Add Japanese translation.
37 Version 1.39 March 8, 2011
39 * Add --libtool option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs.
40 * Add Ukranian translation.
41 * Add Esperanto translation.
43 Version 1.38 April 26, 2010
45 * Support ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections.
46 * Move all translated text into .po files (previously .h2m include
47 files were handled seperately).
48 * Submit package to the Translation Project (translationproject.org).
49 * Add Vietnamese translation.
50 * Add some comments for translators.
52 Version 1.37 November 14, 2009
55 * Add --version-string option.
56 * Add --no-discard-stderr option.
57 * Add line breaks into bug reporting section.
58 * Add Brazilian Portuguese and German translations.
59 * Select a reasonable configure default for --enable-nls.
60 * Revise preload mechanism to not require preloadable libintl.
62 Version 1.36 October 17, 2005
64 * Add default territory to --locale option.
65 * Add Finnish translations.
67 Version 1.35 November 25, 2004
69 * Set program name to the first word of NAME paragraph in --include
72 Version 1.34 November 20, 2004
74 * Escape all unescaped hyphens in output.
75 * Convert parenthesised options, eg (-F).
76 * Fix info section in SEE ALSO to use $program rather than
77 $info_page when referring to the program.
79 Version 1.33 July 18, 2003
81 * Add Polish translations.
82 * Support for localised "Usage:" output.
83 * configure: add --disable-nls option; verify gettext support.
85 Version 1.32 July 10, 2003
87 * Set modification time on generated help2man script so that generation
88 of man pages is dependent only on changes to the source help2man.PL
91 Version 1.31 July 9, 2003
93 * Check for errors writing to output page.
95 Version 1.30 July 9, 2003
97 * Support for localised manual pages has been added (--locale option).
99 Version 1.29 September 7, 2002
101 * Change info category to "GNU programming support".
103 Version 1.28 June 4, 2002
105 * Add --info-page option.
107 Version 1.27 March 19, 2002
109 * Allow short and long options to be separated by multiple spaces
112 Version 1.26 March 9, 2002
114 * Documentation updates giving suggested --help output.
116 Version 1.25 December 3, 2001
118 * New --source and --manual options to allow the page headers and
119 footers to be specified.
121 * New --help-option and --version-option options to cater for programs
122 which don't support the standard --help and --version.
124 Version 1.24 December 22, 2000
126 * Allow options to be specified in the initial block of include files.
128 Version 1.23 October 31, 2000
130 * Escape leading apostrophes.
132 Version 1.022 July 7, 2000
134 * help2man is now officially a GNU program. Add bug reporting
135 address and `GNU' prefix.
137 * configure now checks for `perl5' as well as `perl'.
139 Version 1.021 April 16, 2000
141 * Create directories if required (Makefile).
143 Version 1.020 December 30, 1999
145 * Remove directory from command name(s) in synopsis.
147 Version 1.019 November 3, 1999
149 * Sadly, 2+ spaces *are* required to unambiguously separate options
152 Version 1.018 November 1, 1999
154 * Recognise additional synopsis lines without requiring `or:' prefix.
155 * Adjust option tagged paragraph matching so that the first option
156 argument does not require an `='.
158 Version 1.017 October 27, 1999
160 * Allow --include to be used multiple times.
161 * Include files may now contain `/pattern/' which will append the text
162 following to any paragraph which matches the pattern.
164 Version 1.016 October 25, 1999
166 * Handle indenting/continuation of things which look like options
167 separately. This removes the requirement for 2+ spaces between
168 option and description, allows the description to occur on the line
169 below the option and relaxes the indent matching rules for continued