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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.20 2017/07/28 14:57:56 schwarze Exp $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.21 2018/07/31 10:18:15 schwarze Exp $ About the portable mandoc distribution -------------------------------------- @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tech@ mailing list, too. Enjoy using the mandoc toolset! -Ingo Schwarze, Karlsruhe, July 2017 +Ingo Schwarze, Karlsruhe, August 2018 Installation @@ -83,12 +83,14 @@ apropos(1) will not find the new pages. 10. To set up a man.cgi(8) server, read its manual page. -Note that some man(7) pages may contain low-level roff(7) markup -that mandoc does not yet understand. On some BSD systems using -mandoc, third-party software is vetted on whether it may be formatted -with mandoc. If not, groff(1) is pulled in as a dependency and -used to install a pre-formatted "catpage" instead of directly as -manual page source. +Note that a very small number of man(7) pages contain low-level +roff(7) markup that mandoc does not yet understand. On some BSD +systems using mandoc, third-party software is vetted on whether it +may be formatted with mandoc. If not, groff(1) is pulled in as a +dependency and used to install pre-formatted "catpages" instead of +manual page sources. This mechanism is used much less frequently +than in the past. On OpenBSD, only 25 out of about 10000 ports +still require formatting with groff(1). Understanding mandoc dependencies |