• Fix invalid.illegal being applied to strings without a trailing double quote.
  The Troff User's Manual states trailing quotes may be omitted from strings (7.3. Arguments).
• Allow "" to be interpreted as escape sequences within quoted strings
• Prevent .BI spilling across lines if the italicised component is missing
• Correctly highlight concealed newlines that immediately follow a string
  • Bold
  • Italic
• Add comment-styling to lines entirely consisted of "."
  These are blank requests that're often inserted for additional readability.
• Fix tokenisation not working for .BI "Bold"Italic
  The word Italic should receive formatting, but doesn't unless there's leading whitespace.
• Add remaining permutations of combined-font macros
• Fix formatting spillage in unquoted strings in a CFM's second argument
  Something like this incorrectly affects the next line:

  .BI "Bold" "Italic
  
  Should be plain

• Optimise
  • Revise scope-name choices
    Some patterns might need a second-look to ensure their names comply with TextMate's recommended naming conventions.
  • Double-check if unquoted class is even necessary Removed
  • Use .parameter scope for escape-sequence parameters
• Add support for transparent throughput
• Add .. as a recognised request name
  It's the default closing sequence for .de declarations.
• Uppercase .Ss macro
• Move function name to parent scope of macro patterns
  Function highlighting affects the macro's name, but not the full-stop before it.
• Add highlighting for arithmetic
• Highlight .ds/.nr requests the same way as .de
  Both serve as roff's equivalent of assigning/declaring variables.
• Properly handle nested .de calls without terminators
  A nested definition can omit its terminator argument if it escapes the default with \\..
• Add recognition of predefined number registers
• Allow extra backslashes to match as punctuation before escapes
  This will improve readability in macro definitions: escape sequences are usually delayed to avoid being evaluated too early.
• Fix whatever's going on with the .ul request
• Add mmn, mmt, tmac, tmac-u, nroff and troff as recognised extensions
• Update package description and include manpage as a keyword
• Extend firstLineMatch to cover modelines
  Modeline-matching is also used by the core language packages; their pattern might help
• Stop comments receiving formatting in font macros
• Add macro packages
  • man: Manual pages
  • me: Paper-formatting
  • me: Memorandum
  • ms: Manuscripts
  • www: Webpage generation
• Add generic macro highlighting
  For any control-line not recognised
• Add readme file, and amend description
  RUNOFF won't be added until after the first release; I'd prefer publishing this sooner rather than later.

Remaining tasks

• Ensure all escape sequences have appropriate punctuation scopes applied
• Allow control lines to be highlighted between \fB and the like
• Clip formatting of .TP macro's title to first line
  Groff resets the font-face and indentation after the title's printed, so an unclosed \fB sequence won't affect the rest of the document. Currently, that's exactly what it's doing.
• Avoid highlighting macros that follow concealed newlines
• Check for preceding whitespace before starting a string literal
  Something like abc"xyz is treated by Groff as a single string, but it's not being highlighted like one.
• Add support for Groff syntax extensions
  See man groff_diff for details.
  • Include correct highlighting for .defcolor arguments
• Avoid matching backslashes in \z escapes
  The sequence \z\(ci\(pl won't highlight (ci correctly, since the \z consumes the following backslash (meaning there's no chance to match a character expansion).
• Improve highlighting of generic parameter lists
  • Add support for floating-point values
  • Add variable.parameter scope as a fallback for all parameters
  • Add support for f units (used in defining colour components)
• Allow "parametric" escapes like \c'x' to span newlines and terminate early
  While unlikely (and stupid), the following code is still valid in Groff:
  

  \A'Valid
  
  
  
  \A'Va
  
  lid

• Add a change-log and update preview banner

Due for v1.2.0

• Add support for mdoc
• Separate RUNOFF from Roff
  They're two different languages.
• Preprocessors:
  • eqn: Equations
  • pic: Pictures
    • chem: Chemical diagrams
    • dformat: Data format
    • grap: Graphs
  • refer: References
  • tbl: Tables
  • ideal
  • grn

The screenshot in the README makes me think you have a preview mode that I can see in Atom? I'm looking for something like the continually-updated Markdown Preview.

Looking at the code, though... I guess this plugin contains syntax files and snippets, and I still need to escape to the terminal to preview?

Dear all,
maybe a thumb question. I like to use the extension language-roff in atom. I am man page author and would like e.g. to have the man page sources at the left side and the roff-rendered page at the right side.
After installing language-roff I get a new entry in the menue "Packages" named "roff". But this does only allow to open a man page (which does only system installed man pages) and to clear the cache.
How could I render my man page I am currently working on?
Sorry for this maybe-beginner question.