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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.
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