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@@ -3,17 +3,20 @@
        <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>
                </P>
-
                <H1>
                        <A NAME="description">Description</A>
                </H1>
                <H1>
                        <A NAME="description">Description</A>
                </H1>
-
                <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
@@ -21,66 +24,44 @@
                        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>.
                </P>
                        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>.
                </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).
                </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).
                </P>
-
                <P>
                        <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler and <A
                <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, XHTML,
-                       HTML, PostScript, and PDF.  It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.  
+                       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,
+                       <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>
-
                <P>
                        <I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.
                </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 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).  The most current version is <SPAN CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN>,
-                       dated <SPAN class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>.  If your system doesn't come with <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> (see
-                       <Q>Downstream</Q>), run <CODE>make</CODE> to compile and <CODE>make install</CODE> to install into <I>/usr/local</I>.
-                       Note that <A HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A> is not yet linked to the build.  You must run <CODE>make
-                       makewhatis</CODE> to build it (it does not install).
+                       <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>
-                       Current
-               </H2>
-
-               <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Current Sources">
-                       <COL WIDTH="175">
-                       <COL>
-                       <TBODY>
-                               <TR>
-                                       <TD>Source archive</TD>
-                                       <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz</A> 
-                                       (<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.md5">md5</A>)
-                                       </TD>
-                               </TR>
-                               <TR>
-                                       <TD>Online source</TD>
-                                       <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A>
-                                       </TD>
-                               </TR>
-                       </TBODY>
-               </TABLE>
-
                <H2>
                        Downstream
                </H2>
                <H2>
                        Downstream
                </H2>
-
+               <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>
                <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Downstream Sources">
                        <COL WIDTH="175">
                        <COL>
@@ -88,57 +69,47 @@
                                <TR>
                                        <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
                                        <TD>
                                <TR>
                                        <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
                                        <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc"
-                                               CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A>
+                                       <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc" CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
                                        <TD>FreeBSD</TD>
                                        <TD>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
                                        <TD>FreeBSD</TD>
                                        <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/" 
-                                               CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A>
+                                       <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
                                        <TD>NetBSD</TD>
                                        <TD>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
                                        <TD>NetBSD</TD>
                                        <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/"
-                                               CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A>
+                                       <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/" CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
                                        <TD>OpenBSD</TD>
                                        <TD>
                                        </TD>
                                </TR>
                                <TR>
                                        <TD>OpenBSD</TD>
                                        <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/"
-                                               CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A> 
+                                       <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/" CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A> 
                                        </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>pkgsrc</TD>
                                        <TD>
                                        <TD>
-                                       <A HREF="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</A> 
+                                       <A HREF="http://pkgsrc.se/textproc/mdocml" CLASS="external">textproc/mdocml</A> 
+                                       </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>
                                        </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">
@@ -146,140 +117,95 @@
                        <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 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.7.html">man(7)</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>
+                                       </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="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="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>
@@ -291,7 +217,6 @@
                                        </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>
@@ -301,7 +226,6 @@
                                        </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>
@@ -311,73 +235,33 @@
                                        </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">
-                       19-05-2011: version 1.11.3
+                       xx-xx-2012: version 1.12.4
                </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>.
+                       <I>Ingo, can you summarise your changes here?</I>
                </P>
                <P>
                </P>
                <P>
-                       Furthermore, multibyte-encoded documents, such as those in UTF-8, may be on-the-fly recoded as <A
-                       HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> input by using the newly-added <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A> utility.
-               </P>
-
-               <P CLASS="news">
-                       12-05-2011: version 1.11.2
+                       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>
-               <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
-                       <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/mandoc-cgi/index.html">mandoc-cgi</A>, which features semantic querying of manual content.
-               </P>
-
-               <P CLASS="news">
-                       04-04-2011: version 1.11.1
-               </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).
-               </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.
-               </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.
-               </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: 2011/05/26 12:14:46 $
+                               $Date: 2012/06/09 14:19:55 $
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