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@@ -3,12 +3,17 @@
        <HEAD>
                <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
                <LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="index.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA="all">
        <HEAD>
                <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
                <LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="index.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA="all">
-               <TITLE>mdocml | mdoc macro compiler</TITLE>
+               <TITLE>mdocml | UNIX manpage compiler</TITLE>
        </HEAD>
        <BODY>
                <P CLASS="head">
        </HEAD>
        <BODY>
                <P CLASS="head">
-                       <B>mdocml</B> &#8211; mdoc macro compiler,
-                       current version <SPAN CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN> (<SPAN class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>)
+                       <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/"><IMG SRC="puffy.gif" ALT="Puffy" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="91" STYLE="float: right"></A>
+                       <B>mdocml</B> &#8211; 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>
                </P>
                <H1>
                        <A NAME="description">Description</A>
@@ -16,138 +21,108 @@
                <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
                <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>.
+                       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>
                </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).
+                       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>
                </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 (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; and <A
-                       HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, for indexing manuals.
-                       It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.  
+                       <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>
                </P>
                <P>
                        <I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.
                </P>
-               <H1>
+               <H2>
                        <A NAME="sources">Sources</A>
                        <A NAME="sources">Sources</A>
-               </H1>
+               </H2>
                <P>
                <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.
-               </P>
-               <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Current Sources">
-                       <COL WIDTH="200">
-                       <COL>
-                       <TBODY>
-                               <TR>
-                                       <TD>Current</TD>
-                                       <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz</A> (<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.md5">md5</A>)
-                                       </TD>
-                               </TR>
-                               <TR>
-                                       <TD>Archives</TD>
-                                       <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</A> 
-                                       </TD>
-                               </TR>
-                               <TR>
-                                       <TD>Online Repository</TD>
-                                       <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A>
-                                       </TD>
-                               </TR>
-                       </TBODY>
-               </TABLE>
-               <H1>
-                       <A NAME="binaries">Binaries</A>
-               </H1>
+                       <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>
                <P>
-                       Binary archives consist of pre-compiled binaries, manuals, and other necessary files.
-                       Universal (Mac OS X) binaries are compiled for the PCC, i386, and x86_64 architectures.
-                       Windows binaries are compiled with <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.mingw.org">MingW</A> for the 32-bit (i686) and
-                       64-bit (x86_64) architectures.
+                       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>
                </P>
-               <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Current Binaries">
-                       <COL WIDTH="200">
+               <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Downstream Sources">
+                       <COL WIDTH="175">
                        <COL>
                        <TBODY>
                                <TR>
                        <COL>
                        <TBODY>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD>Windows 32-bit</TD>
+                                       <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
                                        <TD>
                                        <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip">/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip</A>
+                                       <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>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD>Windows 64-bit</TD>
+                                       <TD>FreeBSD 10.0, -CURRENT</TD>
                                        <TD>
                                        <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win64.zip">/binaries/mdocml-win64.zip</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>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD>Mac OS X Universal Binary</TD>
+                                       <TD>FreeBSD 9.x, 8.x</TD>
                                        <TD>
                                        <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="/binaries/mdocml-macosx.zip">/binaries/mdocml-macosx.zip</A>
+                                       <A HREF="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A> (1.12.2 port)
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD>Archives</TD>
+                                       <TD>NetBSD</TD>
                                        <TD>
                                        <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="/binaries/">/binaries/</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>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
-                       </TBODY>
-               </TABLE>
-               <H1>
-                       Downstream
-               </H1>
-               <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>.
-                       Please <A HREF="#contact">contact us</A> if you plan on maintaining a downstream version!
-               </P>
-               <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Downstream Sources">
-                       <COL WIDTH="200">
-                       <COL>
-                       <TBODY>
                                <TR>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
+                                       <TD>OpenBSD</TD>
                                        <TD>
                                        <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc"
-                                               CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A>
+                                       <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/" CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A> (1.12.3 sources under active development and build system)
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD>FreeBSD</TD>
+                                       <TD>pkgsrc</TD>
                                        <TD>
                                        <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/" 
-                                               CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A>
+                                       <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">textproc/mdocml</A> (1.12.3 port)
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD>NetBSD</TD>
+                                       <TD>Minix3</TD>
                                        <TD>
                                        <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/"
-                                               CLASS="external">src/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>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD>OpenBSD</TD>
+                                       <TD>Alpine Linux</TD>
                                        <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://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/mdocml" CLASS="external">aports/main/mdocml</A> (1.12.2 port)
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                        </TBODY>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                        </TBODY>
@@ -161,143 +136,126 @@
                </P>
 
                <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Documentation">
                </P>
 
                <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Documentation">
-                       <COL WIDTH="200">
+                       <COL WIDTH="175">
                        <COL>
                        <TBODY>
                                <TR>
                        <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">
                                        <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>
+                                               search the manual page database
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb(8)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc(1)</A></TD>
                                        <TD VALIGN="top">
                                        <TD VALIGN="top">
-                                               index UNIX manuals
-                                               <SMALL>
-                                                       (<A HREF="mandocdb.8.txt">text</A> | 
-                                                       <A HREF="mandocdb.8.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
-                                                       <A HREF="mandocdb.8.pdf">pdf</A> |
-                                                       <A HREF="mandocdb.8.ps">postscript</A>)
-                                               </SMALL>
+                                               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="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
                                        </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>
                                </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">
                                        <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>
+                                               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="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="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="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
                                        </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
                                        </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
                                        </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>
+                               <TR>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb(8)</A></TD>
+                                       <TD VALIGN="top">
+                                               index UNIX manuals
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                        </TBODY>
                </TABLE>
                                        </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>
                <H1>
                        <A NAME="contact">Contact</A>
                </H1>
                <P>
-                       Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. (these require subscription).  Please check the
+                       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
                        <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==&amp;c=Q2DBUt401ePlSeupJFrq_Q==" TITLE="Reveal
-                       this e-mail address">kris...</A>@bsd.lv.
+                       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==&amp;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">
                </P>
                <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Mailing Lists">
-                       <COL WIDTH="200">
+                       <COL WIDTH="175">
                        <COL>
                        <TBODY>
                                <TR>
                        <COL>
                        <TBODY>
                                <TR>
@@ -307,7 +265,6 @@
                                        </TD>
                                        <TD>
                                                bug-reports, general questions, and announcements 
                                        </TD>
                                        <TD>
                                                bug-reports, general questions, and announcements 
-                                               <SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/discuss/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
@@ -317,7 +274,6 @@
                                        </TD>
                                        <TD>
                                                patches and system discussions 
                                        </TD>
                                        <TD>
                                                patches and system discussions 
-                                               <SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/tech/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
@@ -327,7 +283,6 @@
                                        </TD>
                                        <TD>
                                                source commit messages 
                                        </TD>
                                        <TD>
                                                source commit messages 
-                                               <SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/source/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                        </TBODY>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                        </TBODY>
@@ -336,47 +291,142 @@
                        <A NAME="news">News</A>
                </H1>
                <P CLASS="news">
                        <A NAME="news">News</A>
                </H1>
                <P CLASS="news">
-                       16-08-2011: version 1.11.6
+                       xx-xx-2014: version 1.13.0
                </P>
                <P>
                </P>
                <P>
-                       Handling of <B>tr</B> macro in <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> implemented.  This makes Perl documentation much more
-                       readable.  Hyphenation is also now enabled in <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> format documents.  Many other general
-                       improvements have been implemented.  Furthermore, a 64-bit Windows binary is now available at <A
-                       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>.
+                        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">
                </P>
                <P CLASS="news">
-                       24-07-2011: version 1.11.5
+                       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>
                </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>.
+                       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>
                </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>.
+                       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">
                </P>
                <P CLASS="news">
-                       12-07-2011: version 1.11.4
+                       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>
                </P>
                <P>
-                       Bug-fixes and clean-ups across all systems, especially in <INS><A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A></INS> <DEL>makewhatis</DEL> (note: still not
-                       connected to the general build and must be compiled with <INS><CODE>make mandocdb</CODE></INS> <DEL><CODE>make makewhatis</CODE></DEL>) and the <A
-                       HREF="man.7.html">man</A> parser.  This release was significantly assisted by participants in <A CLASS="external"
-                       HREF="http://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</A>'s c2k11.  Thanks!
+                       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>
                </P>
                <P>
-                       See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for
-                       historical notes.
+                       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>
+               <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>
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                                Copyright &#169; 2008&#8211;2011 
                                <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>, 
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                                Copyright &#169; 2008&#8211;2011 
                                <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>, 
-                               $Date: 2011/08/16 22:21:04 $
+                               &#169; 2013 Ingo Schwarze,
+                               $Date: 2013/12/31 17:47:17 $
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