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.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 6 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 7 2008 $
.Dt index 7
.Os LOCAL
.\"
.Sh NAME
.Nm mdocml
-.Nd compile manpage source into mark-up language
+.Nd compile mdoc macros into mark-up language
.\"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
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.It
and so on.
.El
-.Pp
+.Ss Filtering
+When a block of source has been verified, it's passed to the front-end
+fitlers, which format and display data. The
+.Nm
+utility is invoked with a filter by the
+.Fl f
+flag. The HTML filter has the following features:
+.Bl -enum -compact
+.It
+HTML-4.01 strict compliance.
+.It
+Proper render of values in UTF-8, such as
+.Dq quotes
+and \*(>= predefined values.
+.It
+URI-appearing http://bsd.lv strings are correctly enclosed in link tags.
+.It
+CSS-dictated style with meaningful non-CSS defaults.
+.El
.\"
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
The
.Nm
-utility has been tested under Linux and OpenBSD.
+utility has been tested under Linux and
+.Ox ,
+specifically on
+.Ox
+manual source.
.\"
.Sh EXAMPLES
This page was produced as follows:
.Pp
-.D1 % mdocml -fhtml -o index.html index.7
+.D1 % mdocml -fhtml -W -e -o index.html index.7
.\"
.Sh SEE ALSO
-TODO.
+.Bl -ohang
+.It Xr rman Ns : http://polyglotman.sourceforge.net/rman.html
+Accepts either formatted roff output or source and produces HTML output.
+.It Xr man2html Ns : http://www.nongnu.org/man2html/
+Accepts formatted
+.Xr nroff 1
+text and produces HTML output.
+.It Xr man.cgi Ns : http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi/source
+.Fx
+and
+.Ox
+project CGI for producing HTML from nroff source.
+.El
.\"
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
utility was written by
-.An Em Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@kth.se .
+.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@kth.se .