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- <b>mdocml</b> – mdoc macro compiler
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- <h1>
- DESCRIPTION
- </h1>
-
- <p>
- <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is a suite of tools compiling “-mdoc”, the roff macro package
- of choice for BSD manual pages, and “-man”, the predominant historical package for UNIX
- manuals. 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 -mdoc pages whilst providing token support for -man.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- 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 uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system. mdocml strives to fix
- this (respectively small, C, ISC-licensed, fast and regular).
- </p>
-
- <p>
- The core of <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is composed of the <i>libmdoc</i> and <i>libman</i>
- validating compiler libraries. Both are simple, fast libraries operating on memory buffers, so they may
- be used for a variety of front-ends (terminal-based, CGI and so on). The primary front-end is <i>
- mandoc</i>, which formats manuals for display on the terminal.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
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- <td>
- <h1>
- SOURCES
- </h1>
-
- <p>
- Sources correctly build and install on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux operating systems, tested
- variously on i386, AMD64, alpha, and others. The most current version is <span
- class="attn">@VERSION@</span>, dated <span class="attn">@VDATE@</span>. A full <a
- href="ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</a> (<a href="ChangeLog.txt">txt</a>) is written with each release.
- </p>
-
- <h2>
- Current
- </h2>
-
- <table width="100%" summary="Current Sources">
- <col width="200">
- <col>
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td>Source archive</td>
- <td>
- <a href="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz</a>
- (<a href="/snapshots/mdocml.md5">md5</a>)
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Online source</td>
- <td>
- <a class="external" href="http://bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</a>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <h2>
- Downstream
- </h2>
-
- <table width="100%" summary="Downstream Sources">
- <col width="200">
- <col>
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td>DragonFly BSD</td>
- <td>
- <a href="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc"
- class="external">usr.bin/mandoc</a>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>FreeBSD</td>
- <td>
- <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/"
- class="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</a>
- </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>
- </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>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <h2>
- Historical
- </h2>
-
- <table width="100%" summary="Archived Sources">
- <col width="200">
- <col>
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td>Source archive</td>
- <td>
- <a href="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</a>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <h1>
- DOCUMENTATION
- </h1>
-
- <p>
- These manuals are generated automatically (with <a href="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</a> -Thtml) and refer to the
- current snapshot.
- </p>
-
- <table width="100%" summary="Documentation">
- <col width="200">
- <col>
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</a> (<a href="mandoc.1.txt">text</a>)</td>
- <td>format and display UNIX manuals</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="mandoc_char.7.html">mandoc_char(7)</a> (<a href="mandoc_char.7.txt">text</a>)</td>
- <td>mandoc special characters</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</a> (<a href="mdoc.7.txt">text</a>)</td>
- <td>mdoc language reference</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="man.7.html">man(7)</a> (<a href="man.7.txt">text</a>)</td>
- <td>man language reference</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="manuals.7.html">manuals(7)</a> (<a href="manuals.7.txt">text</a>)</td>
- <td>a guide to writing UNIX manuals</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="mdoc.3.html">mdoc(3)</a> (<a href="mdoc.3.txt">text</a>)</td>
- <td>mdoc macro compiler library</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="man.3.html">man(3)</a> (<a href="man.3.txt">text</a>)</td>
- <td>man macro compiler library</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <h1>
- CONTACT
- </h1>
-
- <p>
- For all issues related to <span class="nm">mdocml</span>, contact Kristaps Džonsons, kris<a
- class="external"
- href="http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01jt88xIsFONwVjHZmGpc4AQ==&c=sb5E6ulipc-eTnpTVqI-BQ=="
- title="Reveal this e-mail address">...</a>@kth.se.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- If you want to receive a semi-automated mail-out of new releases, then please write with a message
- subject of <i>subscribe mdocml</i> (or <i>unsubscribe mdocml</i>).
- </p>
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- <td>
- <div class="foot">
- Copyright © 2008, 2009 Kristaps Džonsons, $Date: 2009/10/31 06:50:25 $
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+ <BODY>
+ <P CLASS="head">
+ <B>mdocml</B> – mdoc macro compiler
+ </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. 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 troff implementation, for displaying <I>mdoc</I>
+ pages whilst providing token support for <I>man</I>.
+ </P>
+
+ <P>
+ 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
+ uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system. mdocml strives to fix this (respectively small, C, <A
+ CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, fast and regular).
+ </P>
+
+ <P>
+ <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler and <A
+ HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals, XHTML,
+ HTML, PostScript, and PDF. It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.
+ </P>
+
+ <P>
+ <I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.
+ </P>
+
+ <H1>
+ <A NAME="sources">Sources</A>
+ </H1>
+
+ <P>
+ <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any UNIX system, although <A
+ HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A> requires <A CLASS="external"
+ HREF="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html">Berkeley Database</A> (this is
+ installed by default on all BSD operating systems). The most current version is <SPAN CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN>,
+ dated <SPAN class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>. If your system doesn't come with <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> (see
+ <Q>Downstream</Q>), run <CODE>make</CODE> to compile and <CODE>make install</CODE> to install into <I>/usr/local</I>.
+ Note that <A HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A> is not yet linked to the build. You must run <CODE>make
+ makewhatis</CODE> to build it (it does not install).
+ </P>
+
+ <H2>
+ Current
+ </H2>
+
+ <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Current Sources">
+ <COL WIDTH="175">
+ <COL>
+ <TBODY>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>Source archive</TD>
+ <TD>
+ <A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz</A>
+ (<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.md5">md5</A>)
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>Online source</TD>
+ <TD>
+ <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ </TBODY>
+ </TABLE>
+
+ <H2>
+ Downstream
+ </H2>
+
+ <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:/usr.bin/mandoc"
+ CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>FreeBSD</TD>
+ <TD>
+ <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/"
+ CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A>
+ </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>
+ </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>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ </TBODY>
+ </TABLE>
+
+ <H2>
+ Historical
+ </H2>
+
+ <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Archived Sources">
+ <COL WIDTH="175">
+ <COL>
+ <TBODY>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>Source archive</TD>
+ <TD>
+ <A HREF="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</A>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ </TBODY>
+ </TABLE>
+
+ <H1>
+ <A NAME="documentation">Documentation</A>
+ </H1>
+
+ <P>
+ These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot.
+ </P>
+
+ <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Documentation">
+ <COL WIDTH="175">
+ <COL>
+ <TBODY>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ format and display UNIX manuals
+ <SMALL>
+ (<A HREF="mandoc.1.txt">text</A> |
+ <A HREF="mandoc.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
+ <A HREF="mandoc.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
+ <A HREF="mandoc.1.ps">postscript</A>)
+ </SMALL>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis(1)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ index UNIX manuals
+ <SMALL>
+ (<A HREF="makewhatis.1.txt">text</A> |
+ <A HREF="makewhatis.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
+ <A HREF="makewhatis.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
+ <A HREF="makewhatis.1.ps">postscript</A>)
+ </SMALL>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv(1)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ recode multibyte UNIX manuals
+ <SMALL>
+ (<A HREF="preconv.1.txt">text</A> |
+ <A HREF="preconv.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
+ <A HREF="preconv.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
+ <A HREF="preconv.1.ps">postscript</A>)
+ </SMALL>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.3.html">mandoc(3)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ mandoc macro compiler library
+ <SMALL>
+ (<A HREF="mandoc.3.txt">text</A> |
+ <A HREF="mandoc.3.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
+ <A HREF="mandoc.3.pdf">pdf</A> |
+ <A HREF="mandoc.3.ps">postscript</A>)
+ </SMALL>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ man language reference
+ <SMALL>
+ (<A HREF="man.7.txt">text</A> |
+ <A HREF="man.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
+ <A HREF="man.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
+ <A HREF="man.7.ps">postscript</A>)
+ </SMALL>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ eqn-mandoc language reference
+ <SMALL>
+ (<A HREF="eqn.7.txt">text</A> |
+ <A HREF="eqn.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
+ <A HREF="eqn.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
+ <A HREF="eqn.7.ps">postscript</A>)
+ </SMALL>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">mandoc_char(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ mandoc special characters
+ <SMALL>
+ (<A HREF="mandoc_char.7.txt">text</A> |
+ <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
+ <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
+ <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.ps">postscript</A>)
+ </SMALL>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ mdoc language reference
+ <SMALL>
+ (<A HREF="mdoc.7.txt">text</A> |
+ <A HREF="mdoc.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
+ <A HREF="mdoc.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
+ <A HREF="mdoc.7.ps">postscript</A>)
+ </SMALL>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ roff-mandoc language reference
+ <SMALL>
+ (<A HREF="roff.7.txt">text</A> |
+ <A HREF="roff.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
+ <A HREF="roff.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
+ <A HREF="roff.7.ps">postscript</A>)
+ </SMALL>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ tbl-mandoc language reference
+ <SMALL>
+ (<A HREF="tbl.7.txt">text</A> |
+ <A HREF="tbl.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
+ <A HREF="tbl.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
+ <A HREF="tbl.7.ps">postscript</A>)
+ </SMALL>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ </TBODY>
+ </TABLE>
+
+ <H1>
+ <A NAME="contact">Contact</A>
+ </H1>
+
+ <P>
+ Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. (these require subscription). Please check the
+ <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/TODO?cvsroot=mdocml">TODO</A> for known issues
+ before posting. 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.
+ </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
+ <SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/discuss/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
+ </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
+ <SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/tech/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>
+ sou<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
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+ </TD>
+ <TD>
+ source commit messages
+ <SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/source/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ </TBODY>
+ </TABLE>
+
+ <H1>
+ <A NAME="news">News</A>
+ </H1>
+
+ <P CLASS="news">
+ 19-05-2011: version 1.11.3
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ Introduce locale-encoding of output with the <B>-Tlocale</B> output option and Unicode escaped-character input.
+ See <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> and <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">mandoc_char</A>, respectively, for details.
+ This allows for non-ASCII characters (e.g., <I>\[u5000]</I>) to be rendered in the locale's encoding, if said
+ environment supports wide-character encoding (if it does not, <B>-Tascii</B> is used instead).
+ Locale support can be turned off at compile time by removing <I>-DUSE_WCHAR</I> in the <I>Makefile</I>, in which case
+ <B>-Tlocale</B> is always a synonym for <B>-Tascii</B>.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ Furthermore, multibyte-encoded documents, such as those in UTF-8, may be on-the-fly recoded as <A
+ HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> input by using the newly-added <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A> utility.
+ </P>
+
+ <P CLASS="news">
+ 12-05-2011: version 1.11.2
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ Corrected some installation issues in version 1.11.1.
+ Further migration to <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A>.
+ Initial public release (this utility is very much under development) of <A HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A>,
+ initially named mandoc-db.
+ This utility produces keyword databases of manual content
+ <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/mandoc-cgi/index.html">mandoc-cgi</A>, which features semantic querying of manual content.
+ </P>
+
+ <P CLASS="news">
+ 04-04-2011: version 1.11.1
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The earlier <I>libroff</I>, <I>libmdoc</I>, and <I>libman</I> soup have been merged into
+ a single library, <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A>, which manages all aspects of
+ parsing real manuals (from line-handling to <A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl</A> parsing).
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ Beyond this structural change, initial <A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn</A> functionality is in
+ place. For the time being, this is limited to the recognition of equation blocks;
+ future version of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> will expand upon this framework.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ As usual, many general fixes and improvements have also occurred. In particular, a great
+ deal of redundancy and superfluous code has been removed with the merging of the backend
+ libraries.
+ </P>
+
+ <P>
+ See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for
+ historical notes.
+ </P>
+
+ <P CLASS="foot">
+ <SMALL>
+ Copyright © 2008–2011
+ <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>,
+ $Date: 2011/05/26 12:14:46 $
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