On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 11:38:32AM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2026 at 09:10:58PM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> > This is a maintainer update for textproc/lowdown to 3.0.1. The changes
> > for 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 3.0.0, and 3.0.1 are:
> > 
> > Version 2.0.3:
> > 
> > "Automatically create the correct shared library type (dylib) on Mac OS
> > X. Fix how image links within links have their link content displayed
> > using OSC8 encoding in terminal mode Fix how -tlatex, -tms, and -tman
> > escape URLs or otherwise do percent and space encoding."
> > 
> > Version 2.0.4:
> > 
> > "Hot-fix 2.0.3 with correct Mac OS X conventions in shared library
> > versioning."
> > 
> > Version 3.0.0:
> > 
> > "Added initial support for outputting modern Unix manpages with -tmdoc.
> > This is intended as a replacement for the legacy -tman. Supplement this
> > with --roff-manpage, which accepts a markdown file that looks like a
> > Unix manpage and attempts to convert it into a well-formed mdoc or man.
> > Most of this is purely syntactic, but several sections in Unix manpages
> > (e.g., the NAME and SYNOPSIS) have a rigorous syntax that this mode
> > attempts to output.
> > 
> > Several minor (but breaking) changes to the API to take up fewer bits in
> > the oflags field of struct lowdown_opts: consolidate all XXX_NOLINK,
> > XXX_RELLINK, and XXX_SHORTLINK as LOWDOWN_NOLINK, LOWDOWN_RELLINK, and
> > LOWDOWN_SHORTLINK. This only applies to the LOWDOWN_MAN, LOWDOWN_MS, and
> > LOWDOWN_TERM output modes. The earlier LOWDOWN_NROFF output mode is
> > deprecated and is now an alias for LOWDOWN_MS, which should be used
> > moving forward.
> > 
> > Do the same with the various XXX_SKIP_HTML bits.
> > 
> > Deprecate the lowdown_nroff_xxx in favour of lowdown_roff_xxx. The
> > functions remain as deprecated and passing through to the new
> > equivalents.
> > 
> > Deprecate the macro variables LOWDOWN_NROFF_GROFF LOWDOWN_NROFF_NUMBERED
> > LOWDOWN_NROFF_MANPAGE LOWDOWN_NROFF_ENDNOTES in favour of their ROFF
> > names. The old macros are aliased for compatibility.
> > 
> > Library bumped from version 2 to 3 for those reasons.
> > 
> > Tweak the behaviour of -tterm and --term-no-links (or
> > --term-no-rellinks) with respect to embedded images and no text so that
> > there's always a clickable link and image component, if possible.
> > 
> > Add --roff-no-rellinks, similar to --term-no-rellinks. Respect
> > --roff-short-links in more cases as well.
> > 
> > Change the behaviour of -tms and -tman where --roff-no-links (or the new
> > --roff-no-rellinks) will have consistent behaviour even if
> > --roff-traditional is not specified.
> > 
> > Fix that, when using lowdown-diff for the terminal, resetting the colour
> > after an insertion or delete would trigger the black colour, which
> > obviously doesn't work with a black background. Instead, use the default
> > colour.
> > 
> > When generating header identifiers in -thtml, incorporate codespan text
> > as well. This is the same as pandoc's default behaviour as well."
> > 
> > Version 3.0.1:
> > 
> > "Flesh out -tmdoc to handle macros flush against other words and
> > punctuation, e.g., (*-abcd*):.
> > 
> > Properly format -tmdoc and -tman compact lists, including nested compact
> > lists."
> > 
> > Everything works fine in my testing. Changes warranted a shared library
> > bump due to additions and removals.
> 
> Sending this again. It would be nice to get it in before 7.9 unless
> there is an objection. Thank you.

No objection but did you try if the ports depending on it still build?