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10 <B>mdocml</B> – mdoc macro compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)
13 Sources: <A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">current</A>,
14 <A HREF="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A>
15 (<A HREF="/snapshots/">archives</A>)
18 HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip">windows 32-bit</A>, <A
19 HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win64.zip">windows 64-bit</A>, <A
20 HREF="/binaries/mdocml-macosx.zip">mac os x</A>
21 (<A HREF="/binaries/">archives</A>)
24 <A NAME="description">Description</A>
27 <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <I><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></I>, the roff macro
28 package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <I><A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></I>, the predominant historical package for
29 UNIX manuals. The mission of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is to deprecate <A
30 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, the GNU troff implementation, for displaying <I>mdoc</I>
31 pages whilst providing token support for <I>man</I>.
34 Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and all of which is GPL. It runs slowly, produces
35 uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system. mdocml strives to fix this (respectively small, C, <A
36 CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, fast and regular).
39 <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler and <A
40 HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals (with
41 support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.
42 It also includes <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A>, for recoding multibyte manuals;
43 <A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc</A>, for emitting only text parts of manuals;
44 <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, for indexing manuals; and
45 <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A>, for semantic search of manual content.
46 It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.
49 <I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.
52 <A NAME="sources">Sources</A>
55 <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll
56 need <A HREF="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html">libdb</A> to build <A
57 HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> and <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> (this is installed by default on BSD UNIX
58 systems — see the <I>Makefile</I> if you're running Linux). To build and install into <I>/usr/local/</I>, just
59 run <CODE>make install</CODE>. Be careful: the <B>preconv</B> and <B>apropos</B> binary names are usually taken by
63 <A NAME="binaries">Binaries</A>
66 Binary archives consist of pre-compiled binaries, manuals, and other necessary files.
67 Universal (Mac OS X) binaries are compiled for the PCC, i386, and x86_64 architectures.
68 Windows binaries are compiled with <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.mingw.org">MingW</A> for the 32-bit (i686) and
69 64-bit (x86_64) architectures.
75 Several systems come bundled with <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> utilities.
76 If your system does not appear below, the maintainers have not contacted me and it should not be considered
78 Please <A HREF="#contact">contact us</A> if you plan on maintaining a downstream version!
80 <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Downstream Sources">
85 <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
87 <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc"
88 CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A>
94 <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/"
95 CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A>
101 <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/"
102 CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A>
108 <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/"
109 CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A>
115 <A NAME="documentation">Documentation</A>
118 These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current release.
119 They are the authoritative documentation for the <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> system.
122 <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Documentation">
127 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos(1)</A></TD>
129 search the manual page database
130 (<A HREF="apropos.1.txt">text</A> |
131 <A HREF="apropos.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
132 <A HREF="apropos.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
133 <A HREF="apropos.1.ps">ps</A>)
137 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc(1)</A></TD>
139 emit only text of UNIX manuals
140 (<A HREF="demandoc.1.txt">text</A> |
141 <A HREF="demandoc.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
142 <A HREF="demandoc.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
143 <A HREF="demandoc.1.ps">ps</A>)
147 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A></TD>
149 format and display UNIX manuals
150 (<A HREF="mandoc.1.txt">text</A> |
151 <A HREF="mandoc.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
152 <A HREF="mandoc.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
153 <A HREF="mandoc.1.ps">ps</A>)
157 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv(1)</A></TD>
159 recode multibyte UNIX manuals
160 (<A HREF="preconv.1.txt">text</A> |
161 <A HREF="preconv.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
162 <A HREF="preconv.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
163 <A HREF="preconv.1.ps">ps</A>)
167 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.3.html">mandoc(3)</A></TD>
169 mandoc macro compiler library
170 (<A HREF="mandoc.3.txt">text</A> |
171 <A HREF="mandoc.3.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
172 <A HREF="mandoc.3.pdf">pdf</A> |
173 <A HREF="mandoc.3.ps">ps</A>)
177 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A></TD>
179 man language reference
180 (<A HREF="man.7.txt">text</A> |
181 <A HREF="man.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
182 <A HREF="man.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
183 <A HREF="man.7.ps">ps</A>)
187 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn(7)</A></TD>
189 eqn-mandoc language reference
190 (<A HREF="eqn.7.txt">text</A> |
191 <A HREF="eqn.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
192 <A HREF="eqn.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
193 <A HREF="eqn.7.ps">ps</A>)
197 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">mandoc_char(7)</A></TD>
199 mandoc special characters
200 (<A HREF="mandoc_char.7.txt">text</A> |
201 <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
202 <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
203 <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.ps">ps</A>)
207 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A></TD>
209 mdoc language reference
210 (<A HREF="mdoc.7.txt">text</A> |
211 <A HREF="mdoc.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
212 <A HREF="mdoc.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
213 <A HREF="mdoc.7.ps">ps</A>)
217 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A></TD>
219 roff-mandoc language reference
220 (<A HREF="roff.7.txt">text</A> |
221 <A HREF="roff.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
222 <A HREF="roff.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
223 <A HREF="roff.7.ps">ps</A>)
227 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl(7)</A></TD>
229 tbl-mandoc language reference
230 (<A HREF="tbl.7.txt">text</A> |
231 <A HREF="tbl.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
232 <A HREF="tbl.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
233 <A HREF="tbl.7.ps">ps</A>)
237 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb(8)</A></TD>
240 (<A HREF="mandocdb.8.txt">text</A> |
241 <A HREF="mandocdb.8.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
242 <A HREF="mandocdb.8.pdf">pdf</A> |
243 <A HREF="mandocdb.8.ps">ps</A>)
249 <A NAME="contact">Contact</A>
252 Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. Please check the
253 <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/TODO?cvsroot=mdocml">TODO</A> for known issues
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288 source commit messages
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295 <A NAME="news">News</A>
298 08-10-2011: version 1.12.0
301 This version features a new, work-in-progress <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> output mode: -<B>Tman</B>. This mode
302 allows a system maintainer to distribute <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> media for older systems that may not natively
303 support <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A>, such as old Solaris systems.
304 The -<B>Ofragment</B> option was added to <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>'s -<B>Thtml</B> and -<B>Txhtml</B> modes.
307 While adding features, an <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> utility has been merged from the mandoc-tools sandbox.
308 This interfaces with <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> for semantic search of manual content. <A
309 HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> is different from the traditional <B>apropos</B> primarily in allowing keyword search
310 (such as for functions, utilities, etc.) and regular expressions.
313 In documentation news, the <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A> and <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> manuals have been made
314 considerably more readable by adding <I>MACRO OVERVIEW</I> sections, by moving the gory details of the <I>LANGUAGE
315 SYNTAX</I> to the <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> manual, and by moving the very technical <I>MACRO SYNTAX</I> sections
316 down to the bottom of the page.
319 Furthermore, for <A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl</A>, the -<B>Tascii</B> mode horizontal spacing of tables was rewritten
320 completely. It is now compatible with <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, both
321 with and without frames and rulers. Nesting of indented blocks is now supported in <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A>, and
322 several bugs were fixed regarding indentation and alignment. The page headers in <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A> are now
323 nicer for very long titles.
326 02-09-2011: version 1.11.7
329 Added <A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc</A> utility for stripping away macros and escapes. This replaces the
330 historical <CODE>deroff</CODE> utility. Also improved the <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A> and <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> manuals.
333 16-08-2011: version 1.11.6
336 Handling of <B>tr</B> macro in <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> implemented. This makes Perl documentation much more
337 readable. Hyphenation is also now enabled in <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> format documents. Many other general
338 improvements have been implemented. Furthermore, a 64-bit Windows binary is now available at <A
339 HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win64.zip">mdocml-win64.zip</A> and a Mac OS X universal binary is available at <A
340 HREF="/binaries/mdocml-macosx.zip">mdocml-macosx.zip</A>.
343 24-07-2011: version 1.11.5
346 Significant <A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn</A> improvements. <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> can now parse arbitrary eqn input
347 (although few GNU extensions are accepted, nor is mixing low-level roff with eqn). See the <A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn</A>
348 manual for details. For the time being, equations are rendered as simple in-line text. The equation parser satisfies
349 the language specified in the <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/v7man/eqn/eqn2e.ps">Second
350 Edition User's Guide</A>.
353 This is also the first release featuring a distributed Windows binary, available at <A
354 HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip">/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip</A>.
357 See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for
362 Copyright © 2008–2011
363 <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>,
364 $Date: 2011/10/08 12:21:57 $