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
+ Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and GPL version 3. 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>
<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>
+ <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/contrib/mdocml" CLASS="external">contrib/mdocml</A> (1.12.2 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</TD>
+ <TD>FreeBSD 10.0, -CURRENT</TD>
<TD>
- <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A>
+ <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> (1.12.1 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>
+ <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>
+ <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/" CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A> (1.12.2 sources and build system)
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>pkgsrc</TD>
<TD>
- <A HREF="http://pkgsrc.se/textproc/mdocml" CLASS="external">textproc/mdocml</A>
+ <A HREF="http://pkgsrc.se/textproc/mdocml" CLASS="external">textproc/mdocml</A> (1.12.2 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>
+ <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>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="tbl.3.html">tbl(3)</A></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">
- man language reference
+ roff table parser library for mandoc
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn(7)</A></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">
- cgi for manpage query and display
+ eqn-mandoc language reference
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn(7)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">
- eqn-mandoc language reference
+ 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>
</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>
<A NAME="news">News</A>
</H1>
<P CLASS="news">
- xx-xx-2012: version 1.12.4
- </P>
- <P>
- <I>Ingo, can you summarise your changes here?</I>
+ xx-xx-2013: version 1.13.0
</P>
<P>
- The <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> tools (<A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, <A
+
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">
+ 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>
- See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for
- historical notes.
+ 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>
+ <P CLASS="news">
+ 23-03-2012: version 1.12.1
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ Significant work on <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> and <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>. These tools are
+ now much more robust.
+ A <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A> implementation is now handled as an <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> mode.
+ These tools are also able to minimally handle pre-formatted pages, that is, those already formatted by another utility
+ such as GNU troff.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A> script is also now available for wider testing. It interfaces with <A
+ HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> manuals cached by <A HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>. HTML output is generated
+ on-the-fly by <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> or internal methods to convert pre-formatted pages.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ The mailing list archive for the discuss and tech lists are being hosted by <A CLASS="external"
+ HREF="http://www.gmane.org">Gmane</A> at <A HREF="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user"
+ CLASS="external">gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user</A> and <A HREF="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel"
+ CLASS="external">gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel</A>, respectively.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ Lastly, I'm no longer providing binaries, as nobody has asked for them.
+ </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>,
- $Date: 2012/06/09 14:19:55 $
+ © 2013 Ingo Schwarze,
+ $Date: 2013/10/13 18:34:51 $
</SMALL>
</P>
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