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- <TITLE>mdocml | mdoc macro compiler</TITLE>
+ <TITLE>mdocml | UNIX manpage compiler</TITLE>
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<P CLASS="head">
- <B>mdocml</B> – mdoc macro compiler
+ <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>
<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>
- 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>
- <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>
- <H1>
+ <H2>
<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 modern system (<A
- HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> requires <A CLASS="external"
- HREF="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html">Berkeley Database</A>, installed by
- default on all BSD UNIX operating systems).
- </P>
- <P>
- To compile <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN>, run <CODE>make</CODE>, then <CODE>make install</CODE> to install into
- <I>/usr/local</I>. Be aware: if you have an existing <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/"
- CLASS="external">groff</A> 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: you must run <CODE>make mandocdb</CODE> to
- build it (it does not install).
- </P>
- <P>
- Distributed Win32 binaries are compiled using <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.mingw.org/">mingw32</A>. They are
- distributed in a ZIP archive consisting of binaries, manuals, and other installable media.
- </P>
+ </H2>
<P>
- The most current version of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is <SPAN CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN>, dated <SPAN
- class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>.
+ <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>
- Current
+ Downstream
</H2>
- <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Current Sources">
+ <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>Source archive</TD>
+ <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
<TD>
- <A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz</A>
- <SMALL>(<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.md5">md5</A>)</SMALL>
+ <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>Online source</TD>
+ <TD>FreeBSD 10.0, -CURRENT</TD>
<TD>
- <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</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>Win32 binary archive</TD>
+ <TD>FreeBSD 9.x, 8.x</TD>
<TD>
- <A HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip">/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip</A>
+ <A HREF="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A> (1.12.2 port)
</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>NetBSD</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/src/external/bsd/mdocml/" CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A> (1.12.1 sources plus patches and build system)
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
- <TD>NetBSD</TD>
+ <TD>OpenBSD</TD>
<TD>
- <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/"
- CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</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>OpenBSD</TD>
+ <TD>pkgsrc</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://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">textproc/mdocml</A> (1.12.3 port)
</TD>
</TR>
- </TBODY>
- </TABLE>
- <H2>
- Historical
- </H2>
- <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Archived Sources">
- <COL WIDTH="175">
- <COL>
- <TBODY>
<TR>
- <TD>Source archive</TD>
+ <TD>Minix3</TD>
<TD>
- <A HREF="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</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>Binary archive</TD>
+ <TD>Alpine Linux</TD>
<TD>
- <A HREF="/binaries/">/binaries/</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>
<A NAME="documentation">Documentation</A>
</H1>
<P>
- These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot.
+ 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>
<TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Documentation">
<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
- <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 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">
- 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
- <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"><A HREF="tbl.3.html">tbl(3)</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>
+ 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
- <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
- <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>
+ <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. (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
- 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.
+ 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">
</TD>
<TD>
bug-reports, general questions, and announcements
- <SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/discuss/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
</TD>
<TD>
patches and system discussions
- <SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/tech/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
</TD>
<TD>
source commit messages
- <SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/source/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
</TD>
</TR>
</TBODY>
<A NAME="news">News</A>
</H1>
<P CLASS="news">
- 24-07-2011: version 1.11.5
+ xx-xx-2014: version 1.13.0
</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>.
+ 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>
- This is also the first release featuring a distributed Windows binary, available at <A
- HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip">/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip</A>.
+ 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 CLASS="news">
- 12-07-2011: version 1.11.4
+ <P>
+ The <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> .Bk macro got some addititonal bugfixes.
</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="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 CLASS="news">
- 26-05-2011: version 1.11.3
+ <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>
- 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>.
+ 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>
- Furthermore, multibyte-encoded documents, such as those in UTF-8, may be on-the-fly recoded into <A
- HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> input by using the newly-added <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A> utility.
- Note: in the future, this feature may be integrated into <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>.
+ 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">
- 12-05-2011: version 1.11.2
+ 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>
- 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 <INS><A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A></INS><DEL>makewhatis</DEL>,
- initially named mandoc-db.
- This utility produces keyword databases of manual content
- <DEL>mandoc-cgi</DEL>,
- <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/mandoc-tools/index.html">mandoc-tools</A>,
- which features semantic querying of manual content.
+ 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>
- See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for
- historical notes.
+ 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>,
- $Date: 2011/07/24 19:08:09 $
+ © 2013 Ingo Schwarze,
+ $Date: 2013/12/31 17:47:17 $
</SMALL>
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