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;
- and <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, for indexing manuals.
+ <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, for indexing manuals; and
+ <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A>, for semantic search of manual content (both <B>mandocdb</B> and <B>apropos</B> are
+ still experimental).
It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.
</P>
<P>
<A NAME="sources">Sources</A>
</H2>
<P>
- <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system.
- To build and install into <I>/usr/local/</I>, just run <CODE>make install</CODE>.
- Be aware: if you have an existing groff installation, this may overwrite its <B>preconv</B> binary.
- The <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> utility is not yet linked to the build; please <A HREF="#contact">contact
- us</A> if you plan to use it.
+ <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll
+ need <A HREF="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html">libdb</A> to build <A
+ HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> and <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> (this is installed by default on BSD UNIX
+ systems — see the <I>Makefile</I> if you're running Linux). To build and install into <I>/usr/local/</I>, just
+ run <CODE>make install</CODE>. Be careful: the <B>preconv</B> and <B>apropos</B> binary names are usually taken by
+ existing utilities.
</P>
<H2>
<A NAME="binaries">Binaries</A>
<COL>
<TBODY>
<TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos(1)</A></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">
- format and display UNIX manuals
- (<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">ps</A>)
+ search the manual page database
+ (<A HREF="apropos.1.txt">text</A> |
+ <A HREF="apropos.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
+ <A HREF="apropos.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
+ <A HREF="apropos.1.ps">ps</A>)
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<A HREF="demandoc.1.ps">ps</A>)
</TD>
</TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ format and display UNIX manuals
+ (<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">ps</A>)
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv(1)</A></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">
<A NAME="news">News</A>
</H1>
<P CLASS="news">
- xx-xx-2011: version 1.11.8
+ 08-10-2011: version 1.12.0
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ This version features a new, work-in-progress <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> output mode: -<B>Tman</B>. This mode
+ allows a system maintainer to distribute <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> media for older systems that may not natively
+ support <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A>, such as old Solaris systems.
+ The -<B>Ofragment</B> option was added to <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>'s -<B>Thtml</B> and -<B>Txhtml</B> modes.
</P>
<P>
- This version features a new, work-in-progress output mode: -<B>Tman</B>. This mode allows a system maintainer to
- distribute <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> media for older systems that may not natively support <A
- HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A>, such as old Solaris systems.
+ While adding features, an <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> utility has been merged from the mandoc-tools sandbox.
+ This interfaces with <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> for semantic search of manual content. <A
+ HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> is different from the traditional <B>apropos</B> primarily in allowing keyword search
+ (such as for functions, utilities, etc.) and regular expressions.
+ Note that the calling syntax for <B>apropos</B> is likely to change as it settles down.
</P>
<P>
- The <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A> and <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> manuals have been made considerably more readable by
- adding <I>MACRO OVERVIEW</I> sections, by moving the gory details of the <I>LANGUAGE SYNTAX</I> to the <A
- HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> manual, and by moving the very technical <I>MACRO SYNTAX</I> sections down to the bottom of
- the page.
+ In documentation news, the <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A> and <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> manuals have been made
+ considerably more readable by adding <I>MACRO OVERVIEW</I> sections, by moving the gory details of the <I>LANGUAGE
+ SYNTAX</I> to the <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> manual, and by moving the very technical <I>MACRO SYNTAX</I> sections
+ down to the bottom of the page.
</P>
<P>
Furthermore, for <A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl</A>, the -<B>Tascii</B> mode horizontal spacing of tables was rewritten
HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win64.zip">mdocml-win64.zip</A> and a Mac OS X universal binary is available at <A
HREF="/binaries/mdocml-macosx.zip">mdocml-macosx.zip</A>.
</P>
- <P CLASS="news">
- 24-07-2011: version 1.11.5
- </P>
- <P>
- Significant <A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn</A> improvements. <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> can now parse arbitrary eqn input
- (although few GNU extensions are accepted, nor is mixing low-level roff with eqn). See the <A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn</A>
- manual for details. For the time being, equations are rendered as simple in-line text. The equation parser satisfies
- the language specified in the <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/v7man/eqn/eqn2e.ps">Second
- Edition User's Guide</A>.
- </P>
- <P>
- This is also the first release featuring a distributed Windows binary, available at <A
- HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip">/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip</A>.
- </P>
<P>
See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for
historical notes.
<SMALL>
Copyright © 2008–2011
<A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>,
- $Date: 2011/10/02 18:37:25 $
+ $Date: 2011/10/08 13:01:44 $
</SMALL>
</P>
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