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- <b>mdocml</b> – mdoc macro compiler
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- DESCRIPTION
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+ <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/"><IMG SRC="puffy.gif" ALT="Puffy" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="91" STYLE="float: right"></A>
+ <B>mdocml</B> – UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)
+ </P>
+ <P CLASS="subhead">
+ Sources: <A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">current</A>,
+ <A HREF="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A>
+ (<A HREF="/snapshots/">archives</A>)
+ </P>
+ <H1>
+ <A NAME="description">Description</A>
+ </H1>
+ <P>
+ <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <I><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></I>, the roff macro
+ package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <I><A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></I>, the predominant historical package for
+ UNIX manuals.
+ It is small, ISO C, <A CLASS="external" HREF="https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/isc-license/">ISC</A>-licensed, and quite fast.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The tool set features <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>,
+ based on the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler,
+ to format output for UNIX terminals (with
+ support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.
+ It also includes <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A>, for recoding multibyte manuals;
+ <A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc</A>, for emitting only text parts of manuals;
+ <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, for indexing manuals; and
+ <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A>, <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A>, and
+ <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A> (via <A HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>) for semantic search of manual content.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> has predominantly been developed on OpenBSD
+ and is both an <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</A>
+ and a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.
+ We strive to support all interested free operating systems, in particular
+ <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/">DragonFly</A>,
+ <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</A>,
+ <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</A>,
+ <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.minix3.org/">Minix 3</A>,
+ and <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU</A>/Linux,
+ as well as all systems running the <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.pkgsrc.org/">pkgsrc</A> portable package build system.
+ All of these projects have helped to make <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> better, by providing feedback and advice,
+ bug reports, and patches.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ <I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.
+ </P>
+ <H2>
+ <A NAME="sources">Sources</A>
+ </H2>
+ <P>
+ <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in ISO C99 and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll need <A
+ HREF="http://www.sqlite.org">sqlite3</A> to build <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> (links to whatis),
+ <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A>, and <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>.
+ To build and install into <I>/usr/local/</I>, just run <CODE>make install</CODE>.
+ Be careful: the <B>preconv</B>, <B>apropos</B>, and <B>whatis</B> binary names are usually taken by existing utilities.
+ </P>
+ <H2>
+ Downstream
+ </H2>
+ <P>
+ Several systems come bundled with <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> utilities.
+ If your system does not appear below, the maintainers have not contacted me and it should not be considered
+ <Q>official</Q>, so please <A HREF="#contact">contact us</A> if you plan on maintaining a downstream version!
+ </P>
+ <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Downstream Sources">
+ <COL WIDTH="175">
+ <COL>
+ <TBODY>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
+ <TD>
+ <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/contrib/mdocml" CLASS="external">contrib/mdocml</A> (1.12.3 sources)
+ <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/lib/libmandoc" CLASS="external">lib/libmandoc</A>
+ <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc" CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A> (build system)
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>FreeBSD 10.0, -CURRENT</TD>
+ <TD>
+ <A HREF="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/mdocml/" CLASS="external">contrib/mdocml</A> (1.12.1 sources)
+ <A HREF="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/mandoc/" CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A> (build system)
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>FreeBSD 9.x, 8.x</TD>
+ <TD>
+ <A HREF="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A> (1.12.2 port)
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>NetBSD</TD>
+ <TD>
+ <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/" CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A> (1.12.1 sources plus patches and build system)
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>OpenBSD</TD>
+ <TD>
+ <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/" CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A> (1.12.3 sources under active development and build system)
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>pkgsrc</TD>
+ <TD>
+ <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">textproc/mdocml</A> (1.12.3 port)
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>Minix3</TD>
+ <TD>
+ <A HREF="http://git.minix3.org/?p=minix.git;a=tree;f=external/bsd/mdocml" CLASS="external">external/bsd/mdocml</A> (1.10.9 sources and build system)
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>Alpine Linux</TD>
+ <TD>
+ <A HREF="http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/mdocml" CLASS="external">aports/main/mdocml</A> (1.12.2 port)
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ </TBODY>
+ </TABLE>
+ <H1>
+ <A NAME="documentation">Documentation</A>
+ </H1>
+ <P>
+ These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current release.
+ They are the authoritative documentation for the <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> system.
+ </P>
- <p>
- <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is a suite of tools that compile “mdoc”, the roff macro
- package of the BSD manual pages. The mission of <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is to deprecate <a
- href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" class="external">groff</a>, the GNU roff implementation, for
- displaying BSD mdoc pages. groff amounts to over 60 000 lines of GPL C++ source, which is a
- considerable encumbrance to BSD operating systems.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- The core of <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is the libmdoc library, a validating scanner-parser producing
- intermediate-form output from mdoc input. libmdoc is a simple, fast library operating on memory buffers
- of mdoc input. Its intermediate output, an abstract syntax tree, is fully documented in the <span
- class="man">mdoc(3)</span> reference manual.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- There are three utilities implementing <span class="man">mdoc(3)</span>:
- </p>
-
- <ul>
- <li><span class="man">mdocterm(1)</span> – formats mdoc input for display on the terminal
- <li><span class="man">mdochtml(1)</span> – formats mdoc input as strict HTML (nascent)
- <li><span class="man">mdoclint(1)</span> – validates mdoc input
- <li><span class="man">mdoctree(1)</span> – prints input abstract syntax tree
- </ul>
-
- <p>
- The <span class="man">mdocterm(1)</span> utility is intended to deprecate usage of <a
- href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" class="external">groff</a> for displaying BSD manuals to the
- terminal, either directly or cached as a “catman” page.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- <span class="attn">Please submit patches!</span> Although a significant implementation exists, work
- remains for the backend library and especially the front-end utilities. See the <a
- href="#contact">contact</a> information below to submit patches and bug reports.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <h1>
- INSTALLING SOURCES
- </h1>
-
- <p>
- Sources correctly build and install on OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux operating systems, tested variously on
- i386, AMD64 and Alpha.
- </p>
-
- <h2>
- snapshotted source
- </h2>
-
- <p>
- CVS sources are checkedout and snapshotted with big updates. These may be found in the <a
- href="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</a> directory.
- </p>
-
- <p class="boxed">
- % cd /tmp<br>
- % ftp -V -o- http://mdocml.bsd.lv/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz | tar -zvxf -<br>
- % cd mdocml<br>
- % make all<br>
- % make regress<br>
- # make install
- </p>
-
- <h2>
- nightly port
- </h2>
-
- <p>
- The source snapshot is automatically converted into an OpenBSD port (ports for other BSD systems not
- yet available). These may be found in the <a href="/ports-openbsd/">/ports-openbsd/</a> directory.
- You <span class="emph">must</span> have the ports tree installed.
- </p>
-
- <p class="boxed">
- # pkg_delete mdocml<br>
- # cd /usr/ports/devel/<br>
- # rm -rf mdocml<br>
- # ftp -V -o- http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ports-openbsd/mdocml.tar.gz | tar -zvxf -<br>
- # cd mdocml<br>
- # make build<br>
- # make regress<br>
- # make install
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <h1>
- CONTACT
- </h1>
-
- <p>
- Please contact Kristaps, kris<a class="external"
- href="http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01jt88xIsFONwVjHZmGpc4AQ==&c=sb5E6ulipc-eTnpTVqI-BQ=="
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- false;" title="Reveal this e-mail address">...</a>@kth.se, with questions, bug reports, patches, and so on.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- If you'd like to submit patches, please contact us beforehand in case larger changes are pending but not
- checked in. If making a bug report, please make sure it's repeatable on the most current snapshot.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <div class="foot">
- Copyright © 2009 Kristaps Džonsons, $Date: 2009/02/25 12:32:50 $
- </div>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
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-</html>
+ <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Documentation">
+ <COL WIDTH="175">
+ <COL>
+ <TBODY>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos(1)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ search the manual page database
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc(1)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ emit only text of UNIX manuals
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ format and display UNIX manuals
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv(1)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ recode multibyte UNIX manuals
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.3.html">mandoc(3)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ mandoc macro compiler library
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="tbl.3.html">tbl(3)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ roff table parser library for mandoc
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ eqn-mandoc language reference
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ man language reference
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ cgi for manpage query and display
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">mandoc_char(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ mandoc special characters
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ mdoc language reference
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ roff-mandoc language reference
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ tbl-mandoc language reference
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb(8)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ index UNIX manuals
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ </TBODY>
+ </TABLE>
+ <H2>
+ <A NAME="links">Supplementary Information</A>
+ </H2>
+ <UL>
+ <LI>
+ <A HREF="http://manpages.bsd.lv/">Practical UNIX Manuals</A>: mdoc tutorial by Kristaps Dzonsons
+ </LI>
+ <LI>
+ <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/specialtopics.html#Mandoc" CLASS="external">OpenBSD porting guide</A>
+ chapter regarding manual pages
+ </LI>
+ <LI>
+ <A HREF="press.html">Publications and media coverage</A>
+ concerning mdocml and mandoc
+ </LI>
+ <LI>
+ <A HREF="http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html">History of UNIX Manpages</A>: a comprehensive overview by Kristaps Dzonsons
+ </LI>
+ </UL>
+ <H1>
+ <A NAME="contact">Contact</A>
+ </H1>
+ <P>
+ Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. Please check the
+ <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/TODO?cvsroot=mdocml">TODO</A> for known issues
+ before posting. All lists are subscription-only: send a blank e-mail to the listed address to subscribe. Beyond that,
+ contact Kristaps at <A HREF="http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01M6h_w7twDp58ZgH57eWC_w==&c=Q2DBUt401ePlSeupJFrq_Q==" TITLE="Reveal
+ this e-mail address">kris...</A>@bsd.lv. Archives are available at <A HREF="http://gmane.org/" CLASS="external">Gmane</A>.
+ </P>
+ <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Mailing Lists">
+ <COL WIDTH="175">
+ <COL>
+ <TBODY>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>
+ disc<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
+ HREF="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01KQ80PFH5n3BBNpF5Gs4sRg==&c=EV1QytpQqTHSItc2IXvZyocgYLPnG5K0JKw_gwMC9yc=">...</A>@mdocml.bsd.lv
+ </TD>
+ <TD>
+ bug-reports, general questions, and announcements
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>
+ tec<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
+ HREF="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01qDX_iV0RlUOarEvb6mR28g==&c=gRXsTjza0NNCFPaYu-Taj2tF0pmYZSc90EZkFkhkxgo=">...</A>@mdocml.bsd.lv
+ </TD>
+ <TD>
+ patches and system discussions
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>
+ sou<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
+ HREF="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01prQrAZhhl2EbIwVcRfABsQ==&c=KtTW4Yic9xk-8g40KzJoca4fR3MYXv28g8NC6OQV-T8=">...</A>@mdocml.bsd.lv
+ </TD>
+ <TD>
+ source commit messages
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ </TBODY>
+ </TABLE>
+ <H1>
+ <A NAME="news">News</A>
+ </H1>
+ <P CLASS="news">
+ xx-xx-2014: version 1.13.0
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> tools (<A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, <A
+ HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> (absorbing whatis), and <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A>) have been re-written to
+ use <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.sqlite.org">sqlite3</A> as a database.
+ </P>
+ <P CLASS="news">
+ 31-12-2013: version 1.12.3
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ In the <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> SYNOPSIS, line breaks and hanging indentation
+ now work correctly for .Fo/.Fa/.Fc and .Fn blocks.
+ Thanks to Franco Fichtner for doing part of the work.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> .Bk macro got some addititonal bugfixes.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ In <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> macro arguments, double quotes can now be quoted
+ by doubling them, just like in <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A>.
+ Thanks to Tsugutomo ENAMI for the patch.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ At the end of <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> macro lines, end-of-sentence spacing
+ now works. Thanks to Franco Fichtner for the patch.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ For backward compatibility, the <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> parser now supports the
+ man-ext .UR/.UE (uniform resource identifier) block macros.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> parser now handles closing blocks that are not open
+ more gracefully.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> parser now ignores blank lines right after .SH and .SS.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ In the <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> formatter, reset indentation when leaving a block,
+ not just when entering the next one.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> .nr request now supports incrementing and decrementing
+ number registers and stops parsing the number right before the first non-digit character.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> parser now supports the alternative escape sequence
+ syntax \C'uXXXX' for Unicode characters.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> parser now parses and ignores the .fam (font family)
+ and .hw (hyphenation points) requests and the \d and \u escape sequences.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> manual got a new ESCAPE SEQUENCE REFERENCE.
+ </P>
+ <P CLASS="news">
+ 05-10-2013: version 1.12.2
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> to <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> converter,
+ to be called as <CODE>mandoc -Tman</CODE>, is now fully functional.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A> utility now supports the <CODE>-Ios</CODE> (default operating system)
+ input option, and the <CODE>-Tutf8</CODE> output mode now actually works.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb(8)</A> utility no longer truncates existing databases when starting to build new ones,
+ but only replaces them when the build actually succeeds.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> parser now supports the <EM>PD</EM> macro (paragraph distance),
+ and (for GNU man-ext compatibility only) <EM>EX</EM> (example block) and <EM>EE</EM> (example end).
+ Plus several bugfixes regarding indentation, line breaks, and vertical spacing,
+ and regarding <EM>RS</EM> following <EM>TP</EM>.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> parser now supports the <EM>\f(BI</EM> (bold+italic) font escape,
+ the <EM>\z</EM> (zero cursor advance) escape and the <EM>cc</EM> (change control character)
+ and <EM>it</EM> (input line trap) requests.
+ Plus bugfixes regarding the <EM>\t</EM> (tab) escape, nested escape sequences, and conditional requests.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ In <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A>, several bugs were fixed related to UTF-8 output of quoting enclosures,
+ delimiter handling, list indentation and horizontal and vertical spacing,
+ formatting of the <EM>Lk</EM>, <EM>%U</EM>, and <EM>%C</EM> macros,
+ plus some bugfixes related to the handling of syntax errors like badly nested font blocks,
+ stray <EM>Ta</EM> macros outside column lists, unterminated <EM>It Xo</EM> blocks,
+ and non-text children of <EM>Nm</EM> blocks.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ In <A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl(7)</A>, the width of horizontal spans and the vertical spacing around tables was corrected,
+ and in <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> files, a crash was fixed that was triggered by some particular unclosed <EM>T{</EM> macros.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ For mandoc developers, we now provide a <A HREF="tbl.3.html">tbl(3)</A> library manual and <CODE>gmdiff</CODE>,
+ a very small, very simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output comparison tool.
+ </P>
+ <H2>
+ <A>History</A>
+ </H2>
+ <UL>
+ <LI>
+ <A HREF="NEWS">Release notes</A> going back to release 1.9.15, February 18, 2010.
+ Briefly explaining the most important changes in each release in relatively easy terms.
+ Very many changes are not mentioned here.
+ </LI>
+ <LI>
+ <A HREF="history.html">Development history</A> going back to the beginning of the project, November 22, 2008.
+ One-line entries for important commits, releases, merges, hackathons and talks.
+ Makes it easy to find out who did what, and when, and when it became available where.
+ However, this is still incomplete, mentioning only a small fraction of all commits,
+ and to keep the size down, the individual entries are extremely terse and technical.
+ Feel free to look up more details and longer explanations about individual entries
+ in the ChangeLog or in CVS.
+ </LI>
+ <LI>
+ <A HREF="ChangeLog">CVS ChangeLog</A> going back to the beginning of the project.
+ Very technical information of varying quality, strictly chronological.
+ All commits are mentioned, but some messages neglect to mention some changes.
+ Partly terse, partly detailed and verbose. In any case, the ChangeLog is very long -
+ more than 25,000 lines, more than 700 kB.
+ </LI>
+ <LI>
+ <A HREF="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">CVS</A> web interface, going back to the beginning of the project.
+ Source code, diffs and commit messages for each source file. The real thing.
+ </LI>
+ </UL>
+ <P CLASS="foot">
+ <SMALL>
+ Copyright © 2008–2011
+ <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>,
+ © 2013 Ingo Schwarze,
+ $Date: 2013/12/31 17:47:17 $
+ </SMALL>
+ </P>
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