- mdocml – mdoc macro compiler + mdocml – UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@) +
++ Sources: current, + cvsweb + (archives) + | + Binaries: windows 32-bit, windows 64-bit, mac os x + (archives)
-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 @@ -21,66 +30,53 @@ HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">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, XHTML, - HTML, PostScript, and PDF. It is a BSD.lv project. + HREF="mandoc.1.html">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; and + apropos and whatis, for semantic search of manual content. + It is a BSD.lv project.
-
Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary, mandoc
.
- mdocml is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any UNIX system, although makewhatis requires Berkeley Database (this is
- installed by default on all BSD operating systems). The most current version is @VERSION@,
- dated @VDATE@. If your system doesn't come with mdocml (see
- Downstream
), run make to compile and make install to install into /usr/local.
- Note that makewhatis is not yet linked to the build. You must run make
- makewhatis to build it (it does not install).
+ mdocml is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll
+ need libdb to build apropos, whatis, and mandocdb (this
+ is installed by default on BSD UNIX systems — see the Makefile if you're running Linux). To build and
+ install into /usr/local/, just run make install. Be careful: the preconv, apropos,
+ and whatis binary names are usually taken by existing utilities.
| Source archive | -- /snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz - (md5) - | -
| Online source | -- cvsweb - | -
+ 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 MingW for the 32-bit (i686) and + 64-bit (x86_64) architectures. +
+ 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
+ official
.
+ Please contact us if you plan on maintaining a downstream version!
+
| Source archive | +pkgsrc | - /snapshots/ + textproc/mdocml |
- 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 mdocml system.
| apropos(1) | ++ search the manual page database + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + ps) + | +|
| demandoc(1) | ++ emit only text of UNIX manuals + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + ps) + | +|
| mandoc(1) | format and display UNIX manuals - (text | xhtml | pdf | - postscript) - + ps) | |
| makewhatis(1) | +preconv(1) | - index UNIX manuals - - (text | - xhtml | - pdf | - postscript) - + recode multibyte UNIX manuals + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + ps) + | +
| whatis(1) | ++ search the manual page database + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + ps) | |
| mandoc(3) | mandoc macro compiler library - (text | xhtml | pdf | - postscript) - + ps) | |
| man(7) | man language reference - (text | xhtml | pdf | - postscript) - + ps) | |
| eqn(7) | eqn-mandoc language reference - (text | xhtml | pdf | - postscript) - + ps) | |
| mandoc_char(7) | mandoc special characters - (text | xhtml | pdf | - postscript) - + ps) | |
| mdoc(7) | mdoc language reference - (text | xhtml | pdf | - postscript) - + ps) | |
| roff(7) | roff-mandoc language reference - (text | xhtml | pdf | - postscript) - + ps) | |
| tbl(7) | tbl-mandoc language reference - (text | xhtml | pdf | - postscript) - + ps) + | +|
| mandocdb(8) | ++ index UNIX manuals + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + ps) |
- 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 TODO for known issues - before posting. Beyond that, contact Kristaps at kris...@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 kris...@bsd.lv. Archives are available at Gmane.
-| bug-reports, general questions, and announcements - (archive) |
| patches and system discussions - (archive) |
| source commit messages - (archive) |
- 12-05-2011: version 1.11.2 + xx-xx-2011: version 1.12.1
- Corrected some installation issues in version 1.11.1. - Further migration to libmandoc. - Initial public release (this utility is very much under development) of makewhatis, - initially named mandoc-db. - This utility produces keyword databases of manual content - mandoc-cgi, which features semantic querying of manual content. + Significant work on apropos and mandocdb. These tools are + now much more robust and in line with other manpage systems. A whatis implementation is now + handled as an apropos mode.
-- 04-04-2011: version 1.11.1 + 08-10-2011: version 1.12.0
- The earlier libroff, libmdoc, and libman soup have been merged into - a single library, libmandoc, which manages all aspects of - parsing real manuals (from line-handling to tbl parsing). + This version features a new, work-in-progress mandoc output mode: -Tman. This mode + allows a system maintainer to distribute man media for older systems that may not natively + support mdoc, such as old Solaris systems. + The -Ofragment option was added to mandoc's -Thtml and -Txhtml modes.
- Beyond this structural change, initial eqn functionality is in - place. For the time being, this is limited to the recognition of equation blocks; - future version of mdocml will expand upon this framework. + While adding features, an apropos utility has been merged from the mandoc-tools sandbox. + This interfaces with mandocdb for semantic search of manual content. apropos is different from the traditional apropos primarily in allowing keyword search + (such as for functions, utilities, etc.) and regular expressions. + Note that the calling syntax for apropos is likely to change as it settles down.
- 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. + In documentation news, the mdoc and man manuals have been made + considerably more readable by adding MACRO OVERVIEW sections, by moving the gory details of the LANGUAGE + SYNTAX to the roff manual, and by moving the very technical MACRO SYNTAX sections + down to the bottom of the page. +
++ Furthermore, for tbl, the -Tascii mode horizontal spacing of tables was rewritten + completely. It is now compatible with groff, both + with and without frames and rulers. Nesting of indented blocks is now supported in man, and + several bugs were fixed regarding indentation and alignment. The page headers in mdoc are now + nicer for very long titles.
-See cvsweb for historical notes.
-Copyright © 2008–2011 Kristaps Dzonsons, - $Date: 2011/05/14 23:41:50 $ + $Date: 2011/11/29 11:21:47 $