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- - 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 roff 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). - - -- The core of mdocml is composed of the libmdoc and libman - validating compiler libraries. Both are simple, fast libraries operating on memory buffers, so they may - be used for a variety of front-ends (terminal-based, CGI and so on). The primary front-end is - mandoc, which formats manuals for display on the terminal. - - |
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- - SOURCES -- -- Sources correctly build and install on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux operating systems, tested - variously on i386, AMD64, alpha, and others. The most current version is @VERSION@, dated @VDATE@. A full ChangeLog [txt] is written with each release. - - -- Current -- -
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- - CONTACT -- -- For all issues related to mdocml, contact Kristaps Džonsons, kris...@kth.se. - - -- If you want to receive a semi-automated mail-out of new releases, then please write with a message - subject of subscribe mdocml (or unsubscribe mdocml). - - |
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- Copyright © 2008, 2009 Kristaps Džonsons, $Date: 2009/10/20 18:14:31 $
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+ mdocml – mdoc macro compiler +
+ ++ 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, XHTML, + HTML, PostScript, and PDF. It is a BSD.lv project. +
+ +
+ Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary, mandoc
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+ 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).
+
| Source archive | ++ /snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz + (md5) + | +
| Online source | ++ cvsweb + | +
| DragonFly BSD | ++ usr.bin/mandoc + | +
| FreeBSD | ++ ports/textproc/mdocml + | +
| NetBSD | ++ src/external/bsd/mdocml + | +
| OpenBSD | ++ src/usr.bin/mandoc + | +
| Source archive | ++ /snapshots/ + | +
+ These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot. +
+ +| mandoc(1) | ++ format and display UNIX manuals + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + + | +
| makewhatis(1) | ++ index UNIX manuals + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + + | +
| preconv(1) | ++ recode multibyte UNIX manuals + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + + | +
| mandoc(3) | ++ mandoc macro compiler library + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + + | +
| man(7) | ++ man language reference + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + + | +
| eqn(7) | ++ eqn-mandoc language reference + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + + | +
| mandoc_char(7) | ++ mandoc special characters + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + + | +
| mdoc(7) | ++ mdoc language reference + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + + | +
| roff(7) | ++ roff-mandoc language reference + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + + | +
| tbl(7) | ++ tbl-mandoc language reference + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + + | +
+ Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. (these require subscription). Please check the + TODO for known issues + before posting. Beyond that, contact Kristaps at kris...@bsd.lv. +
+ +| + disc...@mdocml.bsd.lv + | ++ bug-reports, general questions, and announcements + (archive) + | +
| + tec...@mdocml.bsd.lv + | ++ patches and system discussions + (archive) + | +
| + sou...@mdocml.bsd.lv + | ++ source commit messages + (archive) + | +
+ 19-05-2011: version 1.11.3 +
++ Introduce locale-encoding of output with the -Tlocale output option and Unicode escaped-character input. + See mandoc and mandoc_char, respectively, for details. + This allows for non-ASCII characters (e.g., \[u5000]) to be rendered in the locale's encoding, if said + environment supports wide-character encoding (if it does not, -Tascii is used instead). + Locale support can be turned off at compile time by removing -DUSE_WCHAR in the Makefile, in which case + -Tlocale is always a synonym for -Tascii. +
++ Furthermore, multibyte-encoded documents, such as those in UTF-8, may be on-the-fly recoded as mandoc input by using the newly-added preconv utility. +
+ ++ 12-05-2011: version 1.11.2 +
++ 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. +
+ ++ 04-04-2011: version 1.11.1 +
++ 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). +
++ 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. +
++ 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. +
+ ++ See cvsweb for + historical notes. +
+ ++ + Copyright © 2008–2011 + Kristaps Dzonsons, + $Date: 2011/05/26 12:14:46 $ + +
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