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Merge from VERSION_1_12, in particular release date, pkgsrc port version,
[mandoc.git] / index.sgml
diff --git a/index.sgml b/index.sgml
index ce8c3679b02fe06fa3ff47d3e1de60c48758d4be..35c7a01119353a94cb2d2429f230ac91895da4d8 100644 (file)
--- a/index.sgml
+++ b/index.sgml
@@ -3,11 +3,16 @@
        <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
+                       <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>
@@ -20,7 +25,7 @@
                        pages whilst providing token support for <I>man</I>.
                </P>
                <P>
                        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>
                        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>
@@ -28,119 +33,98 @@
                        <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.  
                        <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="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A>, for indexing manuals.
+                       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,
+                       <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> (includes whatis mode) for indexed manual search, and
+                       <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A> for indexed manual search online.
                        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>
                        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>
+               <H2>
                        <A NAME="sources">Sources</A>
                        <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).  
-                       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="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A> utility is not yet linked to the build.  You must run <CODE>make
-                       makewhatis</CODE> to build it (it does not install).
-               </P>
+               </H2>
                <P>
                <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>
                </P>
-
                <H2>
                <H2>
-                       Current
+                       Downstream
                </H2>
                </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>.
+                       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>
                        <COL WIDTH="175">
                        <COL>
                        <TBODY>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD>Source archive</TD>
+                                       <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
                                        <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> (1.12.1 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>Online source</TD>
+                                       <TD>FreeBSD 10.0, -CURRENT</TD>
                                        <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>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
-                       </TBODY>
-               </TABLE>
-
-               <H2>
-                       Downstream
-               </H2>
-
-               <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Downstream Sources">
-                       <COL WIDTH="175">
-                       <COL>
-                       <TBODY>
                                <TR>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
+                                       <TD>FreeBSD 9.x, 8.x</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://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A> (1.12.1 port)
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD>FreeBSD</TD>
+                                       <TD>NetBSD</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/src/external/bsd/mdocml/" CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A> (1.12.1 sources plus patches and build system)
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD>NetBSD</TD>
+                                       <TD>OpenBSD</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://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>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD>OpenBSD</TD>
+                                       <TD>pkgsrc</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://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> (1.10.9 sources and build system)
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
-                       </TBODY>
-               </TABLE>
-
-               <H2>
-                       Historical
-               </H2>
-
-               <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Archived Sources">
-                       <COL WIDTH="175">
-                       <COL>
-                       <TBODY>
                                <TR>
                                <TR>
-                                       <TD>Source archive</TD>
+                                       <TD>Alpine Linux</TD>
                                        <TD>
                                        <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</A> 
+                                       <A HREF="http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/mdocml" CLASS="external">aports/main/mdocml</A> (1.12.1 port)
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                        </TBODY>
                </TABLE>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                        </TBODY>
                </TABLE>
-
                <H1>
                        <A NAME="documentation">Documentation</A>
                </H1>
                <H1>
                        <A NAME="documentation">Documentation</A>
                </H1>
-
                <P>
                <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">
                </P>
 
                <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Documentation">
@@ -148,140 +132,101 @@
                        <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="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis(1)</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="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>
+                                               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>
-
                <H1>
                        <A NAME="contact">Contact</A>
                </H1>
                <H1>
                        <A NAME="contact">Contact</A>
                </H1>
-
                <P>
                <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>
                </P>
-
                <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Mailing Lists">
                        <COL WIDTH="175">
                        <COL>
                <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Mailing Lists">
                        <COL WIDTH="175">
                        <COL>
@@ -293,7 +238,6 @@
                                        </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>
@@ -303,7 +247,6 @@
                                        </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>
@@ -313,76 +256,101 @@
                                        </TD>
                                        <TD>
                                                source commit messages 
                                        </TD>
                                        <TD>
                                                source commit messages 
-                                               <SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/source/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                        </TBODY>
                </TABLE>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                        </TBODY>
                </TABLE>
-
                <H1>
                        <A NAME="news">News</A>
                </H1>
                <H1>
                        <A NAME="news">News</A>
                </H1>
-
                <P CLASS="news">
                <P CLASS="news">
-                       26-05-2011: version 1.11.3
+                       xx-xx-2013: version 1.13.0
                </P>
                <P>
                </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>.
+                        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>
                </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="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>
-
-               <P CLASS="news">
-                       12-05-2011: version 1.11.2
+               <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>
                </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
-                       <STRIKE>mandoc-cgi</STRIKE>, 
-                       <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/mandoc-tools/index.html">mandoc-tools</A>, 
-                       which features semantic querying of manual content.
+                       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>
+                       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>
+                       See <A HREF="NEWS">NEWS</A> for historical notes.
                </P>
                </P>
-
                <P CLASS="news">
                <P CLASS="news">
-                       04-04-2011: version 1.11.1
+                       23-03-2012: version 1.12.1
                </P>
                <P>
                </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).
+                       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>
                </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.
+                       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>
                </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.
+                       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>
                </P>
-
                <P>
                        See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for
                        historical notes.
                </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 &#169; 2008&#8211;2011 
                                <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>, 
                <P CLASS="foot">
                        <SMALL>
                                Copyright &#169; 2008&#8211;2011 
                                <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>, 
-                               $Date: 2011/06/21 14:51:54 $
+                               &#169; 2013 Ingo Schwarze,
+                               $Date: 2013/10/05 20:09:24 $
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