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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                         Downstream
  60                 </H2>
  61                 <P>
  62                         Several systems come bundled with <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> utilities.
  63                         If your system does not appear below, the maintainers have not contacted me and it should not be considered
  64                         <Q>official</Q>.
  65                         Please <A HREF="#contact">contact us</A> if you plan on maintaining a downstream version!
  66                 </P>
  67                 <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Downstream Sources">
  68                         <COL WIDTH="175">
  69                         <COL>
  70                         <TBODY>
  71                                 <TR>
  72                                         <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
  73                                         <TD>
  74                                         <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc" CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A>
  75                                         </TD>
  76                                 </TR>
  77                                 <TR>
  78                                         <TD>FreeBSD</TD>
  79                                         <TD>
  80                                         <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A>
  81                                         </TD>
  82                                 </TR>
  83                                 <TR>
  84                                         <TD>NetBSD</TD>
  85                                         <TD>
  86                                         <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/" CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A>
  87                                         </TD>
  88                                 </TR>
  89                                 <TR>
  90                                         <TD>OpenBSD</TD>
  91                                         <TD>
  92                                         <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/" CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A>
  93                                         </TD>
  94                                 </TR>
  95                                 <TR>
  96                                         <TD>pkgsrc</TD>
  97                                         <TD>
  98                                         <A HREF="http://pkgsrc.se/textproc/mdocml" CLASS="external">textproc/mdocml</A>
  99                                         </TD>
 100                                 </TR>
 101                                 <TR>
 102                                         <TD>Minix3</TD>
 103                                         <TD>
 104                                         <A HREF="http://git.minix3.org/?p=minix.git;a=tree;f=external/bsd/mdocml" CLASS="external">external/bsd/mdocml</A>
 105                                         </TD>
 106                                 </TR>
 107                         </TBODY>
 108                 </TABLE>
 109                 <H1>
 110                         <A NAME="documentation">Documentation</A>
 111                 </H1>
 112                 <P>
 113                         These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current release.
 114                         They are the authoritative documentation for the <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> system.
 115                 </P>
 116
 117                 <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Documentation">
 118                         <COL WIDTH="175">
 119                         <COL>
 120                         <TBODY>
 121                                 <TR>
 122                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos(1)</A></TD>
 123                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 124                                                 search the manual page database
 125                                                         (<A HREF="apropos.1.txt">text</A> |
 126                                                         <A HREF="apropos.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 127                                                         <A HREF="apropos.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
 128                                                         <A HREF="apropos.1.ps">ps</A>)
 129                                         </TD>
 130                                 </TR>
 131                                 <TR>
 132                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc(1)</A></TD>
 133                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 134                                                 emit only text of UNIX manuals
 135                                                         (<A HREF="demandoc.1.txt">text</A> |
 136                                                         <A HREF="demandoc.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 137                                                         <A HREF="demandoc.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
 138                                                         <A HREF="demandoc.1.ps">ps</A>)
 139                                         </TD>
 140                                 </TR>
 141                                 <TR>
 142                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A></TD>
 143                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 144                                                 format and display UNIX manuals
 145                                                         (<A HREF="mandoc.1.txt">text</A> |
 146                                                         <A HREF="mandoc.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 147                                                         <A HREF="mandoc.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
 148                                                         <A HREF="mandoc.1.ps">ps</A>)
 149                                         </TD>
 150                                 </TR>
 151                                 <TR>
 152                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv(1)</A></TD>
 153                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 154                                                 recode multibyte UNIX manuals
 155                                                         (<A HREF="preconv.1.txt">text</A> |
 156                                                         <A HREF="preconv.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 157                                                         <A HREF="preconv.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
 158                                                         <A HREF="preconv.1.ps">ps</A>)
 159                                         </TD>
 160                                 </TR>
 161                                 <TR>
 162                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis(1)</A></TD>
 163                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 164                                                 search the manual page database
 165                                                         (<A HREF="whatis.1.txt">text</A> |
 166                                                         <A HREF="whatis.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 167                                                         <A HREF="whatis.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
 168                                                         <A HREF="whatis.1.ps">ps</A>)
 169                                         </TD>
 170                                 </TR>
 171                                 <TR>
 172                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.3.html">mandoc(3)</A></TD>
 173                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 174                                                 mandoc macro compiler library
 175                                                         (<A HREF="mandoc.3.txt">text</A> |
 176                                                         <A HREF="mandoc.3.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 177                                                         <A HREF="mandoc.3.pdf">pdf</A> |
 178                                                         <A HREF="mandoc.3.ps">ps</A>)
 179                                         </TD>
 180                                 </TR>
 181                                 <TR>
 182                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A></TD>
 183                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 184                                                 man language reference
 185                                                         (<A HREF="man.7.txt">text</A> |
 186                                                         <A HREF="man.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 187                                                         <A HREF="man.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
 188                                                         <A HREF="man.7.ps">ps</A>)
 189                                         </TD>
 190                                 </TR>
 191                                 <TR>
 192                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi(7)</A></TD>
 193                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 194                                                 cgi for manpage query and display
 195                                                         (<A HREF="man.cgi.7.txt">text</A> |
 196                                                         <A HREF="man.cgi.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 197                                                         <A HREF="man.cgi.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
 198                                                         <A HREF="man.cgi.7.ps">ps</A>)
 199                                         </TD>
 200                                 </TR>
 201                                 <TR>
 202                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn(7)</A></TD>
 203                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 204                                                 eqn-mandoc language reference
 205                                                         (<A HREF="eqn.7.txt">text</A> |
 206                                                         <A HREF="eqn.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 207                                                         <A HREF="eqn.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
 208                                                         <A HREF="eqn.7.ps">ps</A>)
 209                                         </TD>
 210                                 </TR>
 211                                 <TR>
 212                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">mandoc_char(7)</A></TD>
 213                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 214                                                 mandoc special characters
 215                                                         (<A HREF="mandoc_char.7.txt">text</A> |
 216                                                         <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 217                                                         <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
 218                                                         <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.ps">ps</A>)
 219                                         </TD>
 220                                 </TR>
 221                                 <TR>
 222                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A></TD>
 223                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 224                                                 mdoc language reference
 225                                                         (<A HREF="mdoc.7.txt">text</A> |
 226                                                         <A HREF="mdoc.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 227                                                         <A HREF="mdoc.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
 228                                                         <A HREF="mdoc.7.ps">ps</A>)
 229                                         </TD>
 230                                 </TR>
 231                                 <TR>
 232                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A></TD>
 233                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 234                                                 roff-mandoc language reference
 235                                                         (<A HREF="roff.7.txt">text</A> |
 236                                                         <A HREF="roff.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 237                                                         <A HREF="roff.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
 238                                                         <A HREF="roff.7.ps">ps</A>)
 239                                         </TD>
 240                                 </TR>
 241                                 <TR>
 242                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl(7)</A></TD>
 243                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 244                                                 tbl-mandoc language reference
 245                                                         (<A HREF="tbl.7.txt">text</A> |
 246                                                         <A HREF="tbl.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 247                                                         <A HREF="tbl.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
 248                                                         <A HREF="tbl.7.ps">ps</A>)
 249                                         </TD>
 250                                 </TR>
 251                                 <TR>
 252                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="catman.8.html">catman(8)</A></TD>
 253                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 254                                                 update a man.cgi manpage cache
 255                                                         (<A HREF="catman.8.txt">text</A> |
 256                                                         <A HREF="catman.8.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 257                                                         <A HREF="catman.8.pdf">pdf</A> |
 258                                                         <A HREF="catman.8.ps">ps</A>)
 259                                         </TD>
 260                                 </TR>
 261                                 <TR>
 262                                         <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb(8)</A></TD>
 263                                         <TD VALIGN="top">
 264                                                 index UNIX manuals
 265                                                         (<A HREF="mandocdb.8.txt">text</A> |
 266                                                         <A HREF="mandocdb.8.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
 267                                                         <A HREF="mandocdb.8.pdf">pdf</A> |
 268                                                         <A HREF="mandocdb.8.ps">ps</A>)
 269                                         </TD>
 270                                 </TR>
 271                         </TBODY>
 272                 </TABLE>
 273                 <H1>
 274                         <A NAME="contact">Contact</A>
 275                 </H1>
 276                 <P>
 277                         Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc.  Please check the
 278                         <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/TODO?cvsroot=mdocml">TODO</A> for known issues
 279                         before posting.  All lists are subscription-only: send a blank e-mail to the listed address to subscribe.  Beyond that,
 280                         contact Kristaps at <A HREF="http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01M6h_w7twDp58ZgH57eWC_w==&amp;c=Q2DBUt401ePlSeupJFrq_Q==" TITLE="Reveal
 281                         this e-mail address">kris...</A>@bsd.lv.  Archives are available at <A HREF="http://gmane.org/" CLASS="external">Gmane</A>.
 282                 </P>
 283                 <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Mailing Lists">
 284                         <COL WIDTH="175">
 285                         <COL>
 286                         <TBODY>
 287                                 <TR>
 288                                         <TD>
 289                                                 disc<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
 290                                                 HREF="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01KQ80PFH5n3BBNpF5Gs4sRg==&amp;c=EV1QytpQqTHSItc2IXvZyocgYLPnG5K0JKw_gwMC9yc=">...</A>@mdocml.bsd.lv
 291                                         </TD>
 292                                         <TD>
 293                                                 bug-reports, general questions, and announcements
 294                                         </TD>
 295                                 </TR>
 296                                 <TR>
 297                                         <TD>
 298                                                 tec<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
 299                                                 HREF="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01qDX_iV0RlUOarEvb6mR28g==&amp;c=gRXsTjza0NNCFPaYu-Taj2tF0pmYZSc90EZkFkhkxgo=">...</A>@mdocml.bsd.lv
 300                                         </TD>
 301                                         <TD>
 302                                                 patches and system discussions
 303                                         </TD>
 304                                 </TR>
 305                                 <TR>
 306                                         <TD>
 307                                                 sou<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
 308                                                 HREF="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01prQrAZhhl2EbIwVcRfABsQ==&amp;c=KtTW4Yic9xk-8g40KzJoca4fR3MYXv28g8NC6OQV-T8=">...</A>@mdocml.bsd.lv
 309                                         </TD>
 310                                         <TD>
 311                                                 source commit messages
 312                                         </TD>
 313                                 </TR>
 314                         </TBODY>
 315                 </TABLE>
 316                 <H1>
 317                         <A NAME="news">News</A>
 318                 </H1>
 319                 <P CLASS="news">
 320                         23-03-2011: version 1.12.1
 321                 </P>
 322                 <P>
 323                         Significant work on <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> and <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>.  These tools are
 324                         now much more robust.
 325                         A <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A> implementation is now handled as an <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> mode.
 326                         These tools are also able to minimally handle pre-formatted pages, that is, those already formatted by another utility
 327                         such as GNU troff.
 328                 </P>
 329                 <P>
 330                         The <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A> script is also now available for wider testing.  It interfaces with <A
 331                         HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> manuals cached by <A HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>.  HTML output is generated
 332                         on-the-fly by <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> or internal methods to convert pre-formatted pages.
 333                 </P>
 334                 <P>
 335                         The mailing list archive for the discuss and tech lists are being hosted by <A CLASS="external"
 336                         HREF="http://www.gmane.org">Gmane</A> at <A HREF="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user"
 337                         CLASS="external">gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user</A> and <A HREF="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel"
 338                         CLASS="external">gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel</A>, respectively.
 339                 </P>
 340                 <P>
 341                         Lastly, I'm no longer providing binaries, as nobody has asked for them.
 342                 </P>
 343                 <P>
 344                         See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for
 345                         historical notes.
 346                 </P>
 347                 <P CLASS="foot">
 348                         <SMALL>
 349                                 Copyright &#169; 2008&#8211;2011
 350                                 <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>,
 351                                 $Date: 2012/03/25 00:48:47 $
 352                         </SMALL>
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