Change Log

This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Staged

Added: Support for SoftQuad Context (SQTroff intermediate output)
Added: Highlighting for variable-length point-size adjustments
Added: Highlighting for OSC 8 terminal hyperlink device controls
Added: Highlighting for dpic and Pikchr language extensions
Added: Highlighting for new requests added in Groff v1.23.0
Added: Embedded shell highlighting to .pi, .pso, and .sy
Changed: .device requests now highlight device control functions
Changed: Man page references now exclude leading man: prefixes
Changed: Texinfo documents now exempted from man page hyperlinking
Fixed: { not expanding into \{\ … .\} inside .while requests
Fixed: Inconsistent command highlighting in .do requests
Fixed: Highlighting of \s(±NN inconsistent with \s±(NN
Fixed: Conditional requests not highlighting the commands they run
Fixed: Parameter highlighting terminated at the letter R in Atom
Fixed: refer(1)-like markup inside macro definitions now truncated
Fixed: Various inaccuracies related to Roff modeline matching
Improved: Handling of postprocessor input misclassified as Roff
Improved: Colour of ASCII control characters in dark themes
Improved: Accuracy and granularity of Pic highlighting

v1.3.1

October 16th, 2020

Added: Editor command for evaluating selection with groff -Tutf8
Added: mdoc.template and man.template as recognised Roff files
Added: Recognition of .\", .Dt/.Dd and $Mdocdate$ in headers
Added: Support for .ditroff files containing intermediate output
Added: Highlighting of certain C0 control codes in identifiers
Added: Highlighting for new .stringdown and .stringup requests
Added: Highlighting for Heirloom's \U, \T, and \W extensions
Added: Highlighting for device control functions
Changed: Dt and Sh macros now highlighted like TH and SH
Changed: Enabled soft-wrapping in Roff documents by default
Changed: .while requests now highlighted the same as .if/.ie
Fixed: ditroff(7) commands only tokenised at the start of a line
Fixed: Incorrect highlighting of man page links containing colons
Fixed: Missing highlighting of escape sequences in some contexts
Improved: Highlighting of .Dd macros and $Mdocdate$ constructs

v1.3.0

December 31st, 2019

Added: Automatic expansion of { into \{\ … .\} in conditionals
Added: Automatic suppression of closing quotes and parentheses
Added: Editor command to replace blank lines in Roff documents
Added: Highlighting for gperl, glilypond, and gpinyin macros
Added: Highlighting for shell source embedded with mdoc's .Bd
Added: Man-page previewer and clickable page hyperlinks
Added: Missing highlighting for numerous \f sequences
Added: Snippet for inserting a bordered section heading
Added: Support for sequences escaped by Groff's \E
Added: Vastly improved highlighting for eqn and grn markup
Fixed: Conversion commands not working for opened .pic files
Fixed: Documents mangled when rendering preprocessed Pic output
Fixed: Escape sequences not highlighted in register definitions
Fixed: Highlighting for \f escapes not terminated correctly
Fixed: User-defined character names not highlighted by \(xx
Fixed: Macros starting with .[ always assumed to be refer(1)
Fixed: Macros starting with cu- mistaken for .cu requests
Fixed: Snippets not working when hitting tab key
Improved: Highlighting of arithmetic and comparison operators
Removed: .t from associated file extensions

v1.2.2

February 26th, 2017

Added: Commands for converting Roff to other document formats
Added: Highlighting for intermediate output and font descriptions
Added: Intelligent indentation of control lines
Added: Various obscure extensions to supported filetypes
Fixed: Bugs with matching certain Vim/Emacs modelines
Fixed: RUNOFF literal blocks not terminated at .end lit
Fixed: Underline missing after .cu requests
Fixed: Various bugs with highlighting escapes and Pic commands

v1.2.1

August 1st, 2016
Patch for several highlighting-related bugs.

Added: Snippet for inserting 3-column table
Fixed: Comments not highlighted without preceding whitespace
Fixed: Escape sequences not detected inside GNU long-names
Fixed: Escape sequences not recognised in string definitions
Fixed: Inconsistent highlighting applied to interpolated arguments
Fixed: Macros matched as substrings of longer names
Fixed: String definitions unable to span multiple lines
Improved: Handling of requests without whitespace

v1.2.0

July 29th, 2016
Support for Troff preprocessors and the venerable RUNOFF has been added, along with numerous other enhancements.

Added: Full syntax highlighting for mdoc macros
Added: Language support for RUNOFF
Added: Missing support for GNU-style long-names (\*[name])
Added: Snippets for conditionals, definitions, and page templates
Added: Support for chem, dformat, eqn, grap, pic, refer, and tbl
Fixed: Alphabetic Vroff conditional not matched (.if v)
Fixed: Decimals without leading digits not recognised
Fixed: .ig macros not blanking out their contents
Fixed: Point-size adjustments incorrectly highlighted

v1.1.0

July 20th, 2016
This release addresses a number of glaring bugs with highlighting fonts, and improves the lexical accuracy of the grammar's pattern-matching.

Added: Support for all Groff-related features and extensions
Fixed: Blank elements not permitted in 3-part title strings
Fixed: Control lines not matched after \fB and its ilk
Fixed: Escape sequences formatted like ordinary markup
Fixed: Paragraph macros not resetting bold/italic formatting
Fixed: Various edge cases with oddly-formed syntax
Improved: Highlighting of escape sequences and generic macros

v1.0.0

July 17th, 2016
Initial release. Adds syntax highlighting and language support for Roff.