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- - DESCRIPTION -++ mdocml – UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@) + ++ Sources: current, + cvsweb + (archives) + ++ Description +++ mdocml is a suite of tools compiling mdoc, the roff macro + package of choice for BSD manual pages, and man, the predominant historical package for + UNIX manuals. The mission of mdocml is to deprecate groff, the GNU troff implementation, for displaying mdoc + pages whilst providing token support for man. + ++ 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, ISC-licensed, fast and regular). + ++ mdocml consists of the libmandoc validating compiler and mandoc, 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 preconv for recoding multibyte manuals, + demandoc for emitting only text parts of manuals, + mandocdb for indexing manuals, + apropos (includes whatis mode) for indexed manual search, and + man.cgi for indexed manual search online. + It is a BSD.lv project. + +
+ Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary, + Sources ++
+ mdocml is in ISO C99 and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll need sqlite3 to build apropos (links to whatis),
+ man.cgi, and mandocdb.
+ To build and install into /usr/local/, just run + Downstream ++
+ Several systems come bundled with mdocml utilities.
+ If your system does not appear below, the maintainers have not contacted me and it should not be considered
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+ Documentation +++ These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current release. + They are the authoritative documentation for the mdocml system. + -
- mdocml is a suite of tools compiling - 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, ISC-licensed, fast and regular). - - -- mdocml consists of the libmdoc, libman, and libroff validating compilers; and mandoc, which interfaces with the compiler libraries to format output for UNIX - terminals, XHTML, HTML, and PostScript. mdocml is a BSD.lv project. - - -
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- - SOURCES -- -- mdocml is architecture- and system-neutral, written in plain-old C. The most - current version is @VERSION@, dated @VDATE@. A full - ChangeLog (txt) is written with each release. - - -- Current -- -
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- - CONTACT -- -- Please use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. Beyond that, contact - Kristaps at kris...@bsd.lv. - - -- You may also subscribe to several mailing lists (these require subscription, which is - moderated). An archive is not yet available on-line, although you may request one once - subscribed. - - -
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- - XX-07-2010: - version 1.10.5 - -- Purely a bug-fix and polish release. Highlights: - - -
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- - 12-07-2010: - version 1.10.4 - -- Lots of features developed during both Summer of Code and the - OpenBSD c2k10 hackathon: - - -
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- - 19-06-2010: - version 1.10.2 - -- Small release featuring text-decoration in -Tps output, a few - minor relaxations of errors, and some optimisations. - -
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- - 07-06-2010: - version 1.10.1 - -
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- - 29-05-2010: - version 1.10.0 - -- Release consisting of the results from the m2k10 hackathon and up-merge from OpenBSD. - This requires a significant note of thanks to Ingo Schwarze (OpenBSD) and Joerg - Sonnenberger (NetBSD) for their hard work, and again to Joerg for hosting m2k10. - Highlights (mostly cribbed from Ingo's m2k10 report) follow in no particular order: - -
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| apropos(1) | ++ search the manual page database + | +
| demandoc(1) | ++ emit only text of UNIX manuals + | +
| mandoc(1) | ++ format and display UNIX manuals + | +
| preconv(1) | ++ recode multibyte UNIX manuals + | +
| mandoc(3) | ++ mandoc macro compiler library + | +
| man(7) | ++ man language reference + | +
| man.cgi(7) | ++ cgi for manpage query and display + | +
| eqn(7) | ++ eqn-mandoc language reference + | +
| mandoc_char(7) | ++ mandoc special characters + | +
| mdoc(7) | ++ mdoc language reference + | +
| roff(7) | ++ roff-mandoc language reference + | +
| tbl(7) | ++ tbl-mandoc language reference + | +
| mandocdb(8) | ++ index UNIX manuals + | +
+ Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. Please check the + TODO for known issues + before posting. All lists are subscription-only: send a blank e-mail to the listed address to subscribe. Beyond that, + contact Kristaps at kris...@bsd.lv. Archives are available at Gmane. +
+| + disc...@mdocml.bsd.lv + | ++ bug-reports, general questions, and announcements + | +
| + tec...@mdocml.bsd.lv + | ++ patches and system discussions + | +
| + sou...@mdocml.bsd.lv + | ++ source commit messages + | +
+ xx-xx-2012: version 1.12.4 +
++ Ingo, can you summarise your changes here? +
++ The mandocdb tools (mandocdb, apropos (absorbing whatis), and man.cgi) have been re-written to + use sqlite3 as a database. +
++ See cvsweb for + historical notes. +
++ + Copyright © 2008–2011 + Kristaps Dzonsons, + $Date: 2012/06/09 14:19:55 $ + +