Version 1.47 June 9, 2015 * Set document language for localised info pages. * Add French and Spanish translation 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.