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16 <B>mdocml</B> &#8211; mdoc macro compiler
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22 <H1>
23 <A NAME="description">DESCRIPTION</A>
24 </H1>
25
26 <P>
27 <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <Q>-<A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></Q>, the
28 roff macro package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <Q>-<A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></Q>, the
29 predominant historical package for UNIX manuals. The mission of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is to
30 deprecate <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, the GNU troff
31 implementation, for displaying -mdoc pages whilst providing token support for -man.
32 </P>
33
34 <P>
35 Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and all of which is GPL. It runs
36 slowly, produces uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system. mdocml strives to fix
37 this (respectively small, C, <A CLASS="external"
38 HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, fast and regular).
39 </P>
40
41 <P>
42 <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A>, <A
43 HREF="man.3.html">libman</A>, and <A HREF="roff.3.html">libroff</A> validating compilers; and <A
44 HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which interfaces with the compiler libraries to format output for UNIX
45 terminals, XHTML, HTML, and PostScript. <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a <A CLASS="external"
46 HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.
47 </P>
48
49 <P>
50 <I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary,
51 <Q>mandoc</Q>.
52 </P>
53 </TD>
54 </TR>
55 <TR>
56 <TD>
57 <H1>
58 <A NAME="sources">SOURCES</A>
59 </H1>
60
61 <P>
62 <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is architecture- and system-neutral, written in plain-old C. The most
63 current version is <SPAN CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN>, dated <SPAN class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>. A full
64 <A HREF="ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</A> (<A HREF="ChangeLog.txt">txt</A>) is written with each release.
65 </P>
66
67 <H2>
68 Current
69 </H2>
70
71 <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Current Sources">
72 <COL WIDTH="200">
73 <COL>
74 <TBODY>
75 <TR>
76 <TD>Source archive</TD>
77 <TD>
78 <A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz</A>
79 (<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.md5">md5</A>)
80 </TD>
81 </TR>
82 <TR>
83 <TD>Online source</TD>
84 <TD>
85 <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A>
86 </TD>
87 </TR>
88 </TBODY>
89 </TABLE>
90
91 <H2>
92 Downstream
93 </H2>
94
95 <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Downstream Sources">
96 <COL WIDTH="200">
97 <COL>
98 <TBODY>
99 <TR>
100 <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
101 <TD>
102 <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc"
103 CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A>
104 </TD>
105 </TR>
106 <TR>
107 <TD>FreeBSD</TD>
108 <TD>
109 <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/"
110 CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A>
111 </TD>
112 </TR>
113 <TR>
114 <TD>NetBSD</TD>
115 <TD>
116 <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/"
117 CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A>
118 </TD>
119 </TR>
120 <TR>
121 <TD>OpenBSD</TD>
122 <TD>
123 <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/"
124 CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A>
125 </TD>
126 </TR>
127 </TBODY>
128 </TABLE>
129
130 <H2>
131 Historical
132 </H2>
133
134 <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Archived Sources">
135 <COL WIDTH="200">
136 <COL>
137 <TBODY>
138 <TR>
139 <TD>Source archive</TD>
140 <TD>
141 <A HREF="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</A>
142 </TD>
143 </TR>
144 </TBODY>
145 </TABLE>
146 </TD>
147 </TR>
148 <TR>
149 <TD>
150 <H1>
151 <A NAME="documentation">DOCUMENTATION</A>
152 </H1>
153
154 <P>
155 These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot.
156 </P>
157
158 <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Documentation">
159 <COL WIDTH="200">
160 <COL>
161 <TBODY>
162 <TR>
163 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.3.html">man(3)</A></TD>
164 <TD VALIGN="top">
165 man macro compiler library
166 <SPAN STYLE="font-size: smaller;">
167 (<A HREF="man.3.txt">text</A> |
168 <A HREF="man.3.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
169 <A HREF="man.3.pdf">pdf</A> |
170 <A HREF="man.3.ps">postscript</A>)
171 </SPAN>
172 </TD>
173 </TR>
174 <TR>
175 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A></TD>
176 <TD VALIGN="top">
177 man language reference
178 <SPAN STYLE="font-size: smaller;">
179 (<A HREF="man.7.txt">text</A> |
180 <A HREF="man.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
181 <A HREF="man.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
182 <A HREF="man.7.ps">postscript</A>)
183 </SPAN>
184 </TD>
185 </TR>
186 <TR>
187 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A></TD>
188 <TD VALIGN="top">
189 format and display UNIX manuals
190 <SPAN STYLE="font-size: smaller;">
191 (<A HREF="mandoc.1.txt">text</A> |
192 <A HREF="mandoc.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
193 <A HREF="mandoc.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
194 <A HREF="mandoc.1.ps">postscript</A>)
195 </SPAN>
196 </TD>
197 </TR>
198 <TR>
199 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">mandoc_char(7)</A></TD>
200 <TD VALIGN="top">
201 mandoc special characters
202 <SPAN STYLE="font-size: smaller;">
203 (<A HREF="mandoc_char.7.txt">text</A> |
204 <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
205 <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
206 <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.ps">postscript</A>)
207 </SPAN>
208 </TD>
209 </TR>
210 <TR>
211 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mdoc.3.html">mdoc(3)</A></TD>
212 <TD VALIGN="top">
213 mdoc macro compiler library
214 <SPAN STYLE="font-size: smaller;">
215 (<A HREF="mdoc.3.txt">text</A> |
216 <A HREF="mdoc.3.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
217 <A HREF="mdoc.3.pdf">pdf</A> |
218 <A HREF="mdoc.3.ps">postscript</A>)
219 </SPAN>
220 </TD>
221 </TR>
222 <TR>
223 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A></TD>
224 <TD VALIGN="top">
225 mdoc language reference
226 <SPAN STYLE="font-size: smaller;">
227 (<A HREF="mdoc.7.txt">text</A> |
228 <A HREF="mdoc.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
229 <A HREF="mdoc.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
230 <A HREF="mdoc.7.ps">postscript</A>)
231 </SPAN>
232 </TD>
233 </TR>
234 <TR>
235 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="roff.3.html">roff(3)</A></TD>
236 <TD VALIGN="top">
237 roff macro compiler library
238 <SPAN STYLE="font-size: smaller;">
239 (<A HREF="roff.3.txt">text</A> |
240 <A HREF="roff.3.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
241 <A HREF="roff.3.pdf">pdf</A> |
242 <A HREF="roff.3.ps">postscript</A>)
243 </SPAN>
244 </TD>
245 </TR>
246 <TR>
247 <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A></TD>
248 <TD VALIGN="top">
249 roff-mandoc language reference
250 <SPAN STYLE="font-size: smaller;">
251 (<A HREF="roff.7.txt">text</A> |
252 <A HREF="roff.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
253 <A HREF="roff.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
254 <A HREF="roff.7.ps">postscript</A>)
255 </SPAN>
256 </TD>
257 </TR>
258 </TBODY>
259 </TABLE>
260
261 <P>
262 See <Q><A CLASS="external" HREF="http://manpages.bsd.lv">Writing UNIX Manual Pages</A></Q> for a general
263 introduction to manpages and mdoc.
264 </P>
265 </TD>
266 </TR>
267 <TR>
268 <TD>
269 <H1>
270 <A NAME="contact">CONTACT</A>
271 </H1>
272
273 <P>
274 Please use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. Beyond that, contact
275 Kristaps at <A
276 HREF="http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01M6h_w7twDp58ZgH57eWC_w==&amp;c=Q2DBUt401ePlSeupJFrq_Q=="
277 TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address">kris...</A>@bsd.lv.
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279
280 <P>
281 You may also subscribe to several mailing lists (these require subscription, which is
282 moderated).
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294 <TD>
295 bug-reports, general questions, and announcements
296 <SPAN STYLE="font-size: smaller;">(<A HREF="/archives/discuss/summary.html">archive</A>)</SPAN>
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305 patches and system discussions
306 <SPAN STYLE="font-size: smaller;">(<A HREF="/archives/tech/summary.html">archive</A>)</SPAN>
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314 <TD>
315 source commit messages
316 <SPAN STYLE="font-size: smaller;">(<A HREF="/archives/source/summary.html">archive</A>)</SPAN>
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324 <TD>
325 <H1>
326 <A NAME="news">NEWS</A>
327 </H1>
328 <DIV CLASS="news">
329 <P>
330 <SPAN CLASS="date">xx-12-2010</SPAN>:
331 version 1.10.8
332 </P>
333 <P>
334 Significant improvements merged from <A CLASS="external"
335 HREF="http://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</A> downstream, including
336 </P>
337 <UL>
338 <LI>many new <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> components,</LI>
339 <LI>in-line implementation of troff's soelim,</LI>
340 <LI>broken-block handling,</LI>
341 <LI>overhauled error classifications, and</LI>
342 <LI>cleaned up handling of error conditions.</LI>
343 </UL>
344 <P>
345 Also overhauled the <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Thtml</SPAN> and <SPAN
346 CLASS="flag">-Txhtml</SPAN> output modes. They now display readable output in arbitrary
347 browsers, including text-based ones like <A CLASS="external"
348 HREF="http://lynx.isc.org">lynx</A>. <SPAN CLASS="attn">Available style-sheet classes
349 have been considerably changed!</SPAN> See the <SPAN
350 CLASS="file">example.style.css</SPAN> file for details. Lastly, <A
351 HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A> and <A HREF="man.3.html">libman</A> have been cleaned up
352 and reduced in size and complexity.
353 </P>
354 </DIV>
355 <DIV CLASS="news">
356 <P>
357 <SPAN CLASS="date">27-09-2010</SPAN>:
358 version 1.10.6
359 </P>
360 <P>
361 Calling conventions for <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> have changed: <SPAN
362 CLASS="flag">-W</SPAN> improved and <SPAN CLASS="flag">-f</SPAN> deprecated. Non-ASCII
363 characters are also now uniformly discarded. Lots of documentation improvements. Many
364 incremental fixes accomodating for groff's more interesting productions. Lastly, <A
365 HREF="http://perldoc.perl.org/pod2man.html" CLASS="external">pod2man</A> preambles are
366 now fully accepted after some considerable <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> and special
367 character support.
368 </P>
369 </DIV>
370 <DIV CLASS="news">
371 <P>
372 <SPAN CLASS="date">27-07-2010</SPAN>:
373 version 1.10.5
374 </P>
375 <P>
376 Primarily a bug-fix and polish release, but including <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tpdf</SPAN>
377 support in <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> by way of <A CLASS="external"
378 HREF="http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/mandoc_ps/">Summer of Code</A>.
379 Highlights:
380 </P>
381 <UL>
382 <LI>fix <Q>Sm</Q> and <Q>Bd</Q> handling</LI>
383 <LI>fix end-of-sentence handling for embedded sentences</LI>
384 <LI>polish <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> documentation</LI>
385 <LI>document all <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A> macros</LI>
386 <LI>polish <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tps</SPAN> output</LI>
387 <LI>lots of internal clean-ups in character escapes</LI>
388 <LI>un-break literal contexts in <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> documents</LI>
389 <LI>improve <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Thtml</SPAN> output for <SPAN CLASS="flag">-man</SPAN></LI>
390 <LI>add <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tpdf</SPAN> support</LI>
391 </UL>
392 </DIV>
393 <DIV CLASS="news">
394 <P>
395 <SPAN CLASS="date">12-07-2010</SPAN>:
396 version 1.10.4
397 </P>
398 <P>
399 Lots of features developed during both <A CLASS="external"
400 HREF="http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/mandoc_ps/">Summer of Code</A> and the
401 <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</A> c2k10 hackathon:
402 </P>
403 <UL>
404 <LI>minimal <Q>ds</Q> <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> symbols are supported</LI>
405 <LI><Q>Bk</Q> <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A> support</LI>
406 <LI>beautified SYNOPSIS section output</LI>
407 <LI>variable font-width and paper-size support in <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>
408 <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tps</SPAN> output</LI>
409 <LI>acceptance of scope-block breakage in <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></LI>
410 <LI>clarify error message status</LI>
411 <LI>many minor bug-fixes and formatting issues resolved</LI>
412 </UL>
413 </DIV>
414 <DIV CLASS="news">
415 <P>
416 <SPAN CLASS="date">19-06-2010</SPAN>:
417 version 1.10.2
418 </P>
419 <P>
420 Small release featuring text-decoration in <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tps</SPAN> output, a few
421 minor relaxations of errors, and some optimisations.
422 </P>
423 </DIV>
424 <DIV CLASS="news">
425 <P>
426 <SPAN CLASS="date">07-06-2010</SPAN>:
427 version 1.10.1
428 </P>
429 <P>
430 This primarily focusses on the <Q>Bl</Q> and <Q>It</Q> macros described in <A
431 HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A>. Multi-line column support is now fully compatible with
432 groff, as are implicit list entries for columns. Removed manuals.7 in favour of <A
433 CLASS="external" HREF="http://manpages.bsd.lv">http://manpages.bsd.lv</A>. The way we
434 handle the SYNOPSIS section (see the SYNOPSIS documentation in <A
435 HREF="mdoc.7.html#x4d414e55414cx20x535452554354555245">MANUAL STRUCTURE</A>) has also
436 been considerably simplified compared to groff's method. Furthermore, the <SPAN
437 CLASS="flag">-Owidth=width</SPAN> output option has been added to <SPAN
438 CLASS="flag">-Tascii</SPAN> (see <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>). Lastly, initial
439 PostScript output has been added with the <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tps</SPAN> option to <A
440 HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>. It's brutally simple at the moment: fixed-font, with
441 no font decorations.
442 </P>
443 </DIV>
444 <DIV CLASS="news">
445 <P>
446 <SPAN CLASS="date">29-05-2010</SPAN>:
447 version 1.10.0
448 </P>
449 <P>
450 Release consisting of the results from the m2k10 hackathon and up-merge from OpenBSD.
451 This requires a significant note of thanks to Ingo Schwarze (OpenBSD) and Joerg
452 Sonnenberger (NetBSD) for their hard work, and again to Joerg for hosting m2k10.
453 Highlights (mostly cribbed from Ingo's m2k10 report) follow in no particular order:
454 </P>
455 <UL>
456 <LI>a <A HREF="roff.3.html">libroff</A> preprocessor in front of <A
457 HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A> and <A HREF="man.3.html">libman</A> stripping out
458 <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> instructions;</LI>
459 <LI>end-of-sentence (EOS) detection in free-form and macro lines;</LI>
460 <LI>correct handling of tab-separated columnar lists in <SPAN
461 CLASS="flag">-mdoc</SPAN>;</LI>
462 <LI>improved main calling routines to optionally use mmap() for better
463 performance;</LI>
464 <LI>cleaned up exiting when invoked as <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tlint</SPAN> or over
465 multiple files with <SPAN CLASS="flag">-fign-errors</SPAN>;</LI>
466 <LI>error and warning message handling re-written to be unified for <A
467 HREF="roff.3.html">libroff</A>, <A HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A>, and <A
468 HREF="man.3.html">libman</A>;</LI>
469 <LI>handling of badly-nested explicit-scoped macros;</LI>
470 <LI>improved free-form text parsing in <A HREF="man.3.html">libman</A> and <A
471 HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A>;</LI>
472 <LI>significant GNU troff compatibility improvements in <SPAN
473 CLASS="flag">-Tascii</SPAN>, largely in terms of spacing;</LI>
474 <LI>a regression framework for making sure the many fragilities of GNU troff
475 aren't trampled in subsequent work;</LI>
476 <LI>support for <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tascii</SPAN> breaking at hyphens
477 encountered in free-form text;</LI>
478 <LI>and many more minor fixes and improvements (no really, consult <A
479 HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> and see
480 for yourself!).</LI>
481 </UL>
482 </DIV>
483 <P>
484 See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for
485 historical notes.
486 </P>
487 </TD>
488 </TR>
489 <TR>
490 <TD>
491 <DIV CLASS="foot">
492 Copyright &#169; 2008&#8211;2010 Kristaps Dzonsons, $Date: 2010/12/22 11:58:02 $
493 </DIV>
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