</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P CLASS="head">
- <B>mdocml</B> – mdoc macro compiler
+ <B>mdocml</B> – mdoc macro 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>)
+ |
+ Binaries: <A
+ HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip">windows 32-bit</A>, <A
+ HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win64.zip">windows 64-bit</A>, <A
+ HREF="/binaries/mdocml-macosx.zip">mac os x</A>
+ (<A HREF="/binaries/">archives</A>)
</P>
<H1>
<A NAME="description">Description</A>
<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 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>, for semantic search of manual content (both <B>mandocdb</B> and <B>apropos</B> are
+ still experimental).
It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.
</P>
<P>
<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 plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll
+ need <A HREF="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html">libdb</A> to build <A
+ HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> and <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> (this is installed by default on BSD UNIX
+ systems — see the <I>Makefile</I> if you're running Linux). To build and install into <I>/usr/local/</I>, just
+ run <CODE>make install</CODE>. Be careful: the <B>preconv</B> and <B>apropos</B> binary names are usually taken by
+ existing utilities.
</P>
<H2>
- Current
+ <A NAME="binaries">Binaries</A>
</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>
- <SMALL>(<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.md5">md5</A>)</SMALL>
- </TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD>Online source</TD>
- <TD>
- <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A>
- </TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD>Win32 binary archive</TD>
- <TD>
- <A HREF="/binaries/mdocml.zip">/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip</A>
- </TD>
- </TR>
- </TBODY>
- </TABLE>
+ <P>
+ Binary archives consist of pre-compiled binaries, manuals, and other necessary files.
+ Universal (Mac OS X) binaries are compiled for the PCC, i386, and x86_64 architectures.
+ Windows binaries are compiled with <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.mingw.org">MingW</A> for the 32-bit (i686) and
+ 64-bit (x86_64) architectures.
+ </P>
<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>
</TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
- <H2>
- Historical
- </H2>
- <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Archived Sources">
- <COL WIDTH="175">
- <COL>
- <TBODY>
- <TR>
- <TD>Source archive</TD>
- <TD>
- <A HREF="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</A>
- </TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD>Binary archive</TD>
- <TD>
- <A HREF="/binaries/">/binaries/</A>
- </TD>
- </TR>
- </TBODY>
- </TABLE>
<H1>
<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 WIDTH="175">
<COL>
<TBODY>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos(1)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ search the manual page database
+ (<A HREF="apropos.1.txt">text</A> |
+ <A HREF="apropos.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
+ <A HREF="apropos.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
+ <A HREF="apropos.1.ps">ps</A>)
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc(1)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ emit only text of UNIX manuals
+ (<A HREF="demandoc.1.txt">text</A> |
+ <A HREF="demandoc.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
+ <A HREF="demandoc.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
+ <A HREF="demandoc.1.ps">ps</A>)
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">
format and display UNIX manuals
- <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>
- </TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb(8)</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>
+ <A HREF="mandoc.1.ps">ps</A>)
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv(1)</A></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">
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>
+ <A HREF="preconv.1.ps">ps</A>)
</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>
+ <A HREF="mandoc.3.ps">ps</A>)
</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>
+ <A HREF="man.7.ps">ps</A>)
</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>
+ <A HREF="eqn.7.ps">ps</A>)
</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>
+ <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.ps">ps</A>)
</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>
+ <A HREF="mdoc.7.ps">ps</A>)
</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>
+ <A HREF="roff.7.ps">ps</A>)
</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>
+ <A HREF="tbl.7.ps">ps</A>)
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb(8)</A></TD>
+ <TD VALIGN="top">
+ index UNIX manuals
+ (<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">ps</A>)
</TD>
</TR>
</TBODY>
<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
+ 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.
</P>
<TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Mailing Lists">
</TD>
<TD>
bug-reports, general questions, and announcements
- <SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/discuss/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
+ (<A HREF="/archives/discuss/">archive</A>)
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
</TD>
<TD>
patches and system discussions
- <SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/tech/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
+ (<A HREF="/archives/tech/">archive</A>)
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
</TD>
<TD>
source commit messages
- <SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/source/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
+ (<A HREF="/archives/source/">archive</A>)
</TD>
</TR>
</TBODY>
<A NAME="news">News</A>
</H1>
<P CLASS="news">
- 24-07-2011: version 1.11.5
+ 08-10-2011: version 1.12.0
</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>.
+ This version features a new, work-in-progress <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> output mode: -<B>Tman</B>. This mode
+ allows a system maintainer to distribute <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> media for older systems that may not natively
+ support <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A>, such as old Solaris systems.
+ The -<B>Ofragment</B> option was added to <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>'s -<B>Thtml</B> and -<B>Txhtml</B> modes.
</P>
<P>
- This is also the first release featuring a distributed Windows binary, available at <A
- HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip">/binaries/mdocml-win32.zip</A>.
+ While adding features, an <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> utility has been merged from the mandoc-tools sandbox.
+ This interfaces with <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> for semantic search of manual content. <A
+ HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> is different from the traditional <B>apropos</B> primarily in allowing keyword search
+ (such as for functions, utilities, etc.) and regular expressions.
+ Note that the calling syntax for <B>apropos</B> is likely to change as it settles down.
</P>
- <P CLASS="news">
- 12-07-2011: version 1.11.4
+ <P>
+ In documentation news, the <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A> and <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> manuals have been made
+ considerably more readable by adding <I>MACRO OVERVIEW</I> sections, by moving the gory details of the <I>LANGUAGE
+ SYNTAX</I> to the <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> manual, and by moving the very technical <I>MACRO SYNTAX</I> sections
+ down to the bottom of the page.
</P>
<P>
- 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!
+ Furthermore, for <A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl</A>, the -<B>Tascii</B> mode horizontal spacing of tables was rewritten
+ completely. It is now compatible with <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, both
+ with and without frames and rulers. Nesting of indented blocks is now supported in <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A>, and
+ several bugs were fixed regarding indentation and alignment. The page headers in <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A> are now
+ nicer for very long titles.
</P>
<P CLASS="news">
- 26-05-2011: version 1.11.3
- </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>.
+ 02-09-2011: version 1.11.7
</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>.
+ Added <A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc</A> utility for stripping away macros and escapes. This replaces the
+ historical <CODE>deroff</CODE> utility. Also improved the <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A> and <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> manuals.
</P>
<P CLASS="news">
- 12-05-2011: version 1.11.2
+ 16-08-2011: version 1.11.6
</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.
+ Handling of <B>tr</B> macro in <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> implemented. This makes Perl documentation much more
+ readable. Hyphenation is also now enabled in <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> format documents. Many other general
+ improvements have been implemented. Furthermore, a 64-bit Windows binary is now available at <A
+ HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win64.zip">mdocml-win64.zip</A> and a Mac OS X universal binary is available at <A
+ HREF="/binaries/mdocml-macosx.zip">mdocml-macosx.zip</A>.
</P>
<P>
See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for
<SMALL>
Copyright © 2008–2011
<A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>,
- $Date: 2011/07/24 19:03:40 $
+ $Date: 2011/10/08 13:01:44 $
</SMALL>
</P>
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