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  10                         <B>mdocml</B> &#8211; UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)
  11                 </P>
  12                 <P CLASS="subhead">
  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>)
  16                 </P>
  17                 <H1>
  18                         <A NAME="description">Description</A>
  19                 </H1>
  20                 <P>
  21                         <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <I><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></I>, the roff macro
  22                         package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <I><A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></I>, the predominant historical package for
  23                         UNIX manuals.  The mission of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is to deprecate <A
  24                         HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, the GNU troff implementation, for displaying <I>mdoc</I>
  25                         pages whilst providing token support for <I>man</I>.
  26                 </P>
  27                 <P>
  28                         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
  29                         uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system.  mdocml strives to fix this (respectively small, C, <A
  30                         CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, fast and regular).
  31                 </P>
  32                 <P>
  33                         <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler and <A
  34                         HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals (with
  35                         support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.
  36                         It also includes <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A>, for recoding multibyte manuals;
  37                         <A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc</A>, for emitting only text parts of manuals;
  38                         <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, for indexing manuals; and
  39                         <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A>, <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A>, and
  40                         <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A> (via <A HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>) for semantic search of manual content.
  41                         It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.
  42                 </P>
  43                 <P>
  44                         <I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.
  45                 </P>
  46                 <H2>
  47                         <A NAME="sources">Sources</A>
  48                 </H2>
  49                 <P>
  50                         <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll
  51                         need <A HREF="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html">libdb</A> to build <A
  52                         HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A>, <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A>, <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A>, <A
  53                         HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>, and <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> (this is installed by default on BSD UNIX
  54                         systems &mdash; see the <I>Makefile</I> if you're running Linux).  To build and install into <I>/usr/local/</I>, just
  55                         run <CODE>make install</CODE>.  Be careful: the <B>preconv</B>, <B>apropos</B>, and <B>whatis</B> binary names are
  56                         usually taken by existing utilities.
  57                 </P>
  58                 <H2>
  59                         <A NAME="binaries">Binaries</A>
  60                 </H2>
  61                 <P>
  62                         Binary archives consist of pre-compiled binaries, manuals, and other necessary files.
  63                         Universal (Mac OS X) binaries are compiled for the PCC, i386, and x86_64 architectures.
  64                         Windows binaries are compiled with <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.mingw.org">MingW</A> for the 32-bit (i686) and
  65                         64-bit (x86_64) architectures.
  66                 </P>
  67                 <H2>
  68                         Downstream
  69                 </H2>
  70                 <P>
  71                         Several systems come bundled with <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> utilities.
  72                         If your system does not appear below, the maintainers have not contacted me and it should not be considered
  73                         <Q>official</Q>.
  74                         Please <A HREF="#contact">contact us</A> if you plan on maintaining a downstream version!
  75                 </P>
  76                 <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Downstream Sources">
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  78                         <COL>
  79                         <TBODY>
  80                                 <TR>
  81                                         <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
  82                                         <TD>
  83                                         <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc"
  84                                                 CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A>
  85                                         </TD>
  86                                 </TR>
  87                                 <TR>
  88                                         <TD>FreeBSD</TD>
  89                                         <TD>
  90                                         <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/"
  91                                                 CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A>
  92                                         </TD>
  93                                 </TR>
  94                                 <TR>
  95                                         <TD>NetBSD</TD>
  96                                         <TD>
  97                                         <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/"
  98                                                 CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A>
  99                                         </TD>
 100                                 </TR>
 101                                 <TR>
 102                                         <TD>OpenBSD</TD>
 103                                         <TD>
 104                                         <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/"
 105                                                 CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A>
 106                                         </TD>
 107                                 </TR>
 108                                 <TR>
 109                                         <TD>pkgsrc</TD>
 110                                         <TD>
 111                                         <A HREF="http://pkgsrc.se/textproc/mdocml" CLASS="external">textproc/mdocml</A>
 112                                         </TD>
 113                                 </TR>
 114                         </TBODY>
 115                 </TABLE>
 116                 <H1>
 117                         <A NAME="documentation">Documentation</A>
 118                 </H1>
 119                 <P>
 120                         These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current release.
 121                         They are the authoritative documentation for the <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> system.
 122                 </P>
 123
 124                 <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Documentation">
 125                         <COL WIDTH="175">
 126                         <COL>
 127                         <TBODY>
 128                                 <TR>
 129                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos(1)</A></TD>
 130                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 131                                                 search the manual page database
 132                                                         (<A HREF="apropos.1.txt">text</A> |
 133                                                         <A HREF="apropos.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 134                                                         <A HREF="apropos.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
 135                                                         <A HREF="apropos.1.ps">ps</A>)
 136                                         </TD>
 137                                 </TR>
 138                                 <TR>
 139                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc(1)</A></TD>
 140                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 141                                                 emit only text of UNIX manuals
 142                                                         (<A HREF="demandoc.1.txt">text</A> |
 143                                                         <A HREF="demandoc.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 144                                                         <A HREF="demandoc.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
 145                                                         <A HREF="demandoc.1.ps">ps</A>)
 146                                         </TD>
 147                                 </TR>
 148                                 <TR>
 149                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A></TD>
 150                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 151                                                 format and display UNIX manuals
 152                                                         (<A HREF="mandoc.1.txt">text</A> |
 153                                                         <A HREF="mandoc.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 154                                                         <A HREF="mandoc.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
 155                                                         <A HREF="mandoc.1.ps">ps</A>)
 156                                         </TD>
 157                                 </TR>
 158                                 <TR>
 159                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv(1)</A></TD>
 160                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 161                                                 recode multibyte UNIX manuals
 162                                                         (<A HREF="preconv.1.txt">text</A> |
 163                                                         <A HREF="preconv.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 164                                                         <A HREF="preconv.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
 165                                                         <A HREF="preconv.1.ps">ps</A>)
 166                                         </TD>
 167                                 </TR>
 168                                 <TR>
 169                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis(1)</A></TD>
 170                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 171                                                 search the manual page database
 172                                                         (<A HREF="whatis.1.txt">text</A> |
 173                                                         <A HREF="whatis.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 174                                                         <A HREF="whatis.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
 175                                                         <A HREF="whatis.1.ps">ps</A>)
 176                                         </TD>
 177                                 </TR>
 178                                 <TR>
 179                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.3.html">mandoc(3)</A></TD>
 180                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 181                                                 mandoc macro compiler library
 182                                                         (<A HREF="mandoc.3.txt">text</A> |
 183                                                         <A HREF="mandoc.3.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 184                                                         <A HREF="mandoc.3.pdf">pdf</A> |
 185                                                         <A HREF="mandoc.3.ps">ps</A>)
 186                                         </TD>
 187                                 </TR>
 188                                 <TR>
 189                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A></TD>
 190                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 191                                                 man language reference
 192                                                         (<A HREF="man.7.txt">text</A> |
 193                                                         <A HREF="man.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 194                                                         <A HREF="man.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
 195                                                         <A HREF="man.7.ps">ps</A>)
 196                                         </TD>
 197                                 </TR>
 198                                 <TR>
 199                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi(7)</A></TD>
 200                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 201                                                 cgi for manpage query and display
 202                                                         (<A HREF="man.cgi.7.txt">text</A> |
 203                                                         <A HREF="man.cgi.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 204                                                         <A HREF="man.cgi.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
 205                                                         <A HREF="man.cgi.7.ps">ps</A>)
 206                                         </TD>
 207                                 </TR>
 208                                 <TR>
 209                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn(7)</A></TD>
 210                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 211                                                 eqn-mandoc language reference
 212                                                         (<A HREF="eqn.7.txt">text</A> |
 213                                                         <A HREF="eqn.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 214                                                         <A HREF="eqn.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
 215                                                         <A HREF="eqn.7.ps">ps</A>)
 216                                         </TD>
 217                                 </TR>
 218                                 <TR>
 219                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">mandoc_char(7)</A></TD>
 220                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 221                                                 mandoc special characters
 222                                                         (<A HREF="mandoc_char.7.txt">text</A> |
 223                                                         <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 224                                                         <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
 225                                                         <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.ps">ps</A>)
 226                                         </TD>
 227                                 </TR>
 228                                 <TR>
 229                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A></TD>
 230                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 231                                                 mdoc language reference
 232                                                         (<A HREF="mdoc.7.txt">text</A> |
 233                                                         <A HREF="mdoc.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 234                                                         <A HREF="mdoc.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
 235                                                         <A HREF="mdoc.7.ps">ps</A>)
 236                                         </TD>
 237                                 </TR>
 238                                 <TR>
 239                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A></TD>
 240                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 241                                                 roff-mandoc language reference
 242                                                         (<A HREF="roff.7.txt">text</A> |
 243                                                         <A HREF="roff.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 244                                                         <A HREF="roff.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
 245                                                         <A HREF="roff.7.ps">ps</A>)
 246                                         </TD>
 247                                 </TR>
 248                                 <TR>
 249                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl(7)</A></TD>
 250                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 251                                                 tbl-mandoc language reference
 252                                                         (<A HREF="tbl.7.txt">text</A> |
 253                                                         <A HREF="tbl.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 254                                                         <A HREF="tbl.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
 255                                                         <A HREF="tbl.7.ps">ps</A>)
 256                                         </TD>
 257                                 </TR>
 258                                 <TR>
 259                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="catman.8.html">catman(8)</A></TD>
 260                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 261                                                 update a man.cgi manpage cache
 262                                                         (<A HREF="catman.8.txt">text</A> |
 263                                                         <A HREF="catman.8.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 264                                                         <A HREF="catman.8.pdf">pdf</A> |
 265                                                         <A HREF="catman.8.ps">ps</A>)
 266                                         </TD>
 267                                 </TR>
 268                                 <TR>
 269                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb(8)</A></TD>
 270                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 271                                                 index UNIX manuals
 272                                                         (<A HREF="mandocdb.8.txt">text</A> |
 273                                                         <A HREF="mandocdb.8.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 274                                                         <A HREF="mandocdb.8.pdf">pdf</A> |
 275                                                         <A HREF="mandocdb.8.ps">ps</A>)
 276                                         </TD>
 277                                 </TR>
 278                         </TBODY>
 279                 </TABLE>
 280                 <H1>
 281                         <A NAME="contact">Contact</A>
 282                 </H1>
 283                 <P>
 284                         Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc.  Please check the
 285                         <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/TODO?cvsroot=mdocml">TODO</A> for known issues
 286                         before posting.  All lists are subscription-only: send a blank e-mail to the listed address to subscribe.  Beyond that,
 287                         contact Kristaps at <A HREF="http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01M6h_w7twDp58ZgH57eWC_w==&amp;c=Q2DBUt401ePlSeupJFrq_Q==" TITLE="Reveal
 288                         this e-mail address">kris...</A>@bsd.lv.  Archives are available at <A HREF="http://gmane.org/" CLASS="external">Gmane</A>.
 289                 </P>
 290                 <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Mailing Lists">
 291                         <COL WIDTH="175">
 292                         <COL>
 293                         <TBODY>
 294                                 <TR>
 295                                         <TD>
 296                                                 disc<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
 297                                                 HREF="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01KQ80PFH5n3BBNpF5Gs4sRg==&amp;c=EV1QytpQqTHSItc2IXvZyocgYLPnG5K0JKw_gwMC9yc=">...</A>@mdocml.bsd.lv
 298                                         </TD>
 299                                         <TD>
 300                                                 bug-reports, general questions, and announcements
 301                                         </TD>
 302                                 </TR>
 303                                 <TR>
 304                                         <TD>
 305                                                 tec<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
 306                                                 HREF="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01qDX_iV0RlUOarEvb6mR28g==&amp;c=gRXsTjza0NNCFPaYu-Taj2tF0pmYZSc90EZkFkhkxgo=">...</A>@mdocml.bsd.lv
 307                                         </TD>
 308                                         <TD>
 309                                                 patches and system discussions
 310                                         </TD>
 311                                 </TR>
 312                                 <TR>
 313                                         <TD>
 314                                                 sou<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
 315                                                 HREF="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01prQrAZhhl2EbIwVcRfABsQ==&amp;c=KtTW4Yic9xk-8g40KzJoca4fR3MYXv28g8NC6OQV-T8=">...</A>@mdocml.bsd.lv
 316                                         </TD>
 317                                         <TD>
 318                                                 source commit messages
 319                                         </TD>
 320                                 </TR>
 321                         </TBODY>
 322                 </TABLE>
 323                 <H1>
 324                         <A NAME="news">News</A>
 325                 </H1>
 326                 <P CLASS="news">
 327                         23-03-2011: version 1.12.1
 328                 </P>
 329                 <P>
 330                         Significant work on <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> and <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>.  These tools are
 331                         now much more robust.
 332                         A <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A> implementation is now handled as an <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> mode.
 333                         These tools are also able to minimally handle pre-formatted pages, that is, those already formatted by another utility
 334                         such as GNU troff.
 335                 </P>
 336                 <P>
 337                         The <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A> script is also now available for wider testing.  It interfaces with <A
 338                         HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> manuals cached by <A HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>.  HTML output is generated
 339                         on-the-fly by <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> or internal methods to convert pre-formatted pages.
 340                 </P>
 341                 <P>
 342                         The mailing list archive for the discuss and tech lists are being hosted by <A CLASS="external"
 343                         HREF="http://www.gmane.org">Gmane</A> at <A HREF="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user"
 344                         CLASS="external">gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user</A> and <A HREF="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel"
 345                         CLASS="external">gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel</A>, respectively.
 346                 </P>
 347                 <P>
 348                         Lastly, I'm no longer providing binaries, as nobody has asked for them.
 349                 </P>
 350                 <P>
 351                         See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for
 352                         historical notes.
 353                 </P>
 354                 <P CLASS="foot">
 355                         <SMALL>
 356                                 Copyright &#169; 2008&#8211;2011
 357                                 <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>,
 358                                 $Date: 2012/03/24 01:54:43 $
 359                         </SMALL>
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