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- remove index.html, is now part of the website repo
- and some general cleanup (installcgi is .PHONY)
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diff --git a/index.sgml b/index.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index dad43e00..00000000 --- a/index.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,438 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> -<HTML> - <HEAD> - <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> - <LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="index.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA="all"> - <TITLE>mdocml | UNIX manpage compiler</TITLE> - </HEAD> - <BODY> - <P CLASS="head"> - <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/"><IMG SRC="puffy.gif" ALT="Puffy" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="91" STYLE="float: right"></A> - <B>mdocml</B> – UNIX manpage 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>) - </P> - <H1> - <A NAME="description">Description</A> - </H1> - <P> - <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <I><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></I>, the roff macro - package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <I><A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></I>, the predominant historical package for - UNIX manuals. - It is small, ISO C, <A CLASS="external" HREF="https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/isc-license/">ISC</A>-licensed, and quite fast. - </P> - <P> - 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; - <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, for indexing manuals; and - <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A>, <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A>, and - <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A> (via <A HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>) for semantic search of manual content. - </P> - <P> - <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> has predominantly been developed on OpenBSD - and is both an <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</A> - and a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project. - We strive to support all interested free operating systems, in particular - <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/">DragonFly</A>, - <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</A>, - <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</A>, - <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.minix3.org/">Minix 3</A>, - and <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU</A>/Linux, - as well as all systems running the <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.pkgsrc.org/">pkgsrc</A> portable package build system. - All of these projects have helped to make <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> better, by providing feedback and advice, - bug reports, and patches. - </P> - <P> - <I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>. - </P> - <H2> - <A NAME="sources">Sources</A> - </H2> - <P> - <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 - </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>, 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"> - <COL> - <TBODY> - <TR> - <TD>DragonFly BSD</TD> - <TD> - <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/contrib/mdocml" CLASS="external">contrib/mdocml</A> (1.12.3 sources) - <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/lib/libmandoc" CLASS="external">lib/libmandoc</A> - <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc" CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A> (build system) - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD>FreeBSD 10.0, -CURRENT</TD> - <TD> - <A HREF="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/mdocml/" CLASS="external">contrib/mdocml</A> (1.12.1 sources) - <A HREF="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/mandoc/" CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A> (build system) - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD>FreeBSD 9.x, 8.x</TD> - <TD> - <A HREF="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A> (1.12.2 port) - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD>NetBSD</TD> - <TD> - <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/" CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A> (1.12.1 sources plus patches and build system) - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD>OpenBSD</TD> - <TD> - <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/" CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A> (1.12.3 sources under active development and build system) - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD>pkgsrc</TD> - <TD> - <A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/textproc/mdocml/" CLASS="external">textproc/mdocml</A> (1.12.3 port) - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD>Minix3</TD> - <TD> - <A HREF="http://git.minix3.org/?p=minix.git;a=tree;f=external/bsd/mdocml" CLASS="external">external/bsd/mdocml</A> (1.10.9 sources and build system) - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD>Alpine Linux</TD> - <TD> - <A HREF="http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/mdocml" CLASS="external">aports/main/mdocml</A> (1.12.2 port) - </TD> - </TR> - </TBODY> - </TABLE> - <H1> - <A NAME="documentation">Documentation</A> - </H1> - <P> - 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 - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc(1)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - emit only text of UNIX manuals - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - format and display UNIX manuals - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv(1)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - recode multibyte UNIX manuals - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis(1)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - search the manual page database - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.3.html">mandoc(3)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - mandoc macro compiler library - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="tbl.3.html">tbl(3)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - roff table parser library for mandoc - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn(7)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - eqn-mandoc language reference - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - man language reference - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi(7)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - cgi for manpage query and display - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">mandoc_char(7)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - mandoc special characters - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - mdoc language reference - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - roff-mandoc language reference - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl(7)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - tbl-mandoc language reference - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="catman.8.html">catman(8)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - update a man.cgi manpage cache - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb(8)</A></TD> - <TD VALIGN="top"> - index UNIX manuals - </TD> - </TR> - </TBODY> - </TABLE> - <H2> - <A NAME="links">Supplementary Information</A> - </H2> - <UL> - <LI> - <A HREF="http://manpages.bsd.lv/">Practical UNIX Manuals</A>: mdoc tutorial by Kristaps Dzonsons - </LI> - <LI> - <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/specialtopics.html#Mandoc" CLASS="external">OpenBSD porting guide</A> - chapter regarding manual pages - </LI> - <LI> - <A HREF="press.html">Publications and media coverage</A> - concerning mdocml and mandoc - </LI> - <LI> - <A HREF="http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html">History of UNIX Manpages</A>: a comprehensive overview by Kristaps Dzonsons - </LI> - </UL> - <H1> - <A NAME="contact">Contact</A> - </H1> - <P> - 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. 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. Archives are available at <A HREF="http://gmane.org/" CLASS="external">Gmane</A>. - </P> - <TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Mailing Lists"> - <COL WIDTH="175"> - <COL> - <TBODY> - <TR> - <TD> - disc<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address" - HREF="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01KQ80PFH5n3BBNpF5Gs4sRg==&c=EV1QytpQqTHSItc2IXvZyocgYLPnG5K0JKw_gwMC9yc=">...</A>@mdocml.bsd.lv - </TD> - <TD> - bug-reports, general questions, and announcements - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD> - tec<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address" - HREF="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01qDX_iV0RlUOarEvb6mR28g==&c=gRXsTjza0NNCFPaYu-Taj2tF0pmYZSc90EZkFkhkxgo=">...</A>@mdocml.bsd.lv - </TD> - <TD> - patches and system discussions - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD> - sou<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address" - HREF="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01prQrAZhhl2EbIwVcRfABsQ==&c=KtTW4Yic9xk-8g40KzJoca4fR3MYXv28g8NC6OQV-T8=">...</A>@mdocml.bsd.lv - </TD> - <TD> - source commit messages - </TD> - </TR> - </TBODY> - </TABLE> - <H1> - <A NAME="news">News</A> - </H1> - <P CLASS="news"> - 31-12-2013: version 1.12.3 - </P> - <P> - In the <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> SYNOPSIS, line breaks and hanging indentation - now work correctly for .Fo/.Fa/.Fc and .Fn blocks. - Thanks to Franco Fichtner for doing part of the work. - </P> - <P> - The <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> .Bk macro got some addititonal bugfixes. - </P> - <P> - In <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> macro arguments, double quotes can now be quoted - by doubling them, just like in <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A>. - Thanks to Tsugutomo ENAMI for the patch. - </P> - <P> - At the end of <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> macro lines, end-of-sentence spacing - now works. Thanks to Franco Fichtner for the patch. - </P> - <P> - For backward compatibility, the <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> parser now supports the - man-ext .UR/.UE (uniform resource identifier) block macros. - </P> - <P> - The <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> parser now handles closing blocks that are not open - more gracefully. - </P> - <P> - The <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> parser now ignores blank lines right after .SH and .SS. - </P> - <P> - In the <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> formatter, reset indentation when leaving a block, - not just when entering the next one. - </P> - <P> - The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> .nr request now supports incrementing and decrementing - number registers and stops parsing the number right before the first non-digit character. - </P> - <P> - The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> parser now supports the alternative escape sequence - syntax \C'uXXXX' for Unicode characters. - </P> - <P> - The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> parser now parses and ignores the .fam (font family) - and .hw (hyphenation points) requests and the \d and \u escape sequences. - </P> - <P> - The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> manual got a new ESCAPE SEQUENCE REFERENCE. - </P> - <P CLASS="news"> - 05-10-2013: version 1.12.2 - </P> - <P> - The <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> to <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> converter, - to be called as <CODE>mandoc -Tman</CODE>, is now fully functional. - </P> - <P> - The <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A> utility now supports the <CODE>-Ios</CODE> (default operating system) - input option, and the <CODE>-Tutf8</CODE> output mode now actually works. - </P> - <P> - The <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb(8)</A> utility no longer truncates existing databases when starting to build new ones, - but only replaces them when the build actually succeeds. - </P> - <P> - The <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> parser now supports the <EM>PD</EM> macro (paragraph distance), - and (for GNU man-ext compatibility only) <EM>EX</EM> (example block) and <EM>EE</EM> (example end). - Plus several bugfixes regarding indentation, line breaks, and vertical spacing, - and regarding <EM>RS</EM> following <EM>TP</EM>. - </P> - <P> - The <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> parser now supports the <EM>\f(BI</EM> (bold+italic) font escape, - the <EM>\z</EM> (zero cursor advance) escape and the <EM>cc</EM> (change control character) - and <EM>it</EM> (input line trap) requests. - Plus bugfixes regarding the <EM>\t</EM> (tab) escape, nested escape sequences, and conditional requests. - </P> - <P> - In <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A>, several bugs were fixed related to UTF-8 output of quoting enclosures, - delimiter handling, list indentation and horizontal and vertical spacing, - formatting of the <EM>Lk</EM>, <EM>%U</EM>, and <EM>%C</EM> macros, - plus some bugfixes related to the handling of syntax errors like badly nested font blocks, - stray <EM>Ta</EM> macros outside column lists, unterminated <EM>It Xo</EM> blocks, - and non-text children of <EM>Nm</EM> blocks. - </P> - <P> - In <A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl(7)</A>, the width of horizontal spans and the vertical spacing around tables was corrected, - and in <A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> files, a crash was fixed that was triggered by some particular unclosed <EM>T{</EM> macros. - </P> - <P> - For mandoc developers, we now provide a <A HREF="tbl.3.html">tbl(3)</A> library manual and <CODE>gmdiff</CODE>, - a very small, very simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output comparison tool. - </P> - <H2> - <A>History</A> - </H2> - <UL> - <LI> - <A HREF="NEWS">Release notes</A> going back to release 1.9.15, February 18, 2010. - Briefly explaining the most important changes in each release in relatively easy terms. - Very many changes are not mentioned here. - </LI> - <LI> - <A HREF="history.html">Development history</A> going back to the beginning of the project, November 22, 2008. - One-line entries for important commits, releases, merges, hackathons and talks. - Makes it easy to find out who did what, and when, and when it became available where. - However, this is still incomplete, mentioning only a small fraction of all commits, - and to keep the size down, the individual entries are extremely terse and technical. - Feel free to look up more details and longer explanations about individual entries - in the ChangeLog or in CVS. - </LI> - <LI> - <A HREF="ChangeLog">CVS ChangeLog</A> going back to the beginning of the project. - Very technical information of varying quality, strictly chronological. - All commits are mentioned, but some messages neglect to mention some changes. - Partly terse, partly detailed and verbose. In any case, the ChangeLog is very long - - more than 25,000 lines, more than 700 kB. - </LI> - <LI> - <A HREF="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">CVS</A> web interface, going back to the beginning of the project. - Source code, diffs and commit messages for each source file. The real thing. - </LI> - </UL> - <P CLASS="foot"> - <SMALL> - Copyright © 2008–2011 - <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>, - © 2013 Ingo Schwarze, - $Date: 2013/12/31 17:49:37 $ - </SMALL> - </P> - </BODY> -</HTML> |