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make text shorter and clearer; from kristaps@; tweaked by me
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@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ It is small, ISO C, <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, and quite fast. </P> <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 (with + The tool set features <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, + based on the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler, + 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; @@ -55,13 +56,12 @@ <A NAME="sources">Sources</A> </H2> <P> - <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>, <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A>, <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A>, <A - HREF="catman.8.html">catman</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>, <B>apropos</B>, and <B>whatis</B> binary names are - usually taken by existing utilities. + <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> should build and run on any modern system with + <A HREF="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html">libdb</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>, <B>apropos</B>, and <B>whatis</B> installed binary names + may be taken by existing utilities. </P> <H2> Downstream @@ -69,8 +69,7 @@ <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! + <Q>official</Q>, so 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"> @@ -406,7 +405,7 @@ Copyright © 2008–2011 <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>, © 2013 Ingo Schwarze, - $Date: 2013/11/07 21:57:14 $ + $Date: 2013/11/07 22:09:54 $ </SMALL> </P> </BODY> |