- Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and GPL version 3. It runs slowly, produces + 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).
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ mdocml consists of the libmandoc validating compiler and mandoc, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals (with support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF. - It also includes preconv, for recoding multibyte manuals; - demandoc, for emitting only text parts of manuals; - mandocdb, for indexing manuals; and - apropos, whatis, and - man.cgi (via catman) for semantic search of manual content. + It also includes preconv for recoding multibyte manuals, + demandoc for emitting only text parts of manuals, + mandocdb for indexing manuals, + apropos (includes whatis mode) for indexed manual search, and + man.cgi for indexed manual search online. It is a BSD.lv project.@@ -47,13 +47,11 @@ Sources
- mdocml is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll
- need libdb to build apropos, whatis, man.cgi, catman, and mandocdb (this is installed by default on BSD UNIX
- systems — see the Makefile if you're running Linux). To build and install into /usr/local/, just
- run make install. Be careful: the preconv, apropos, and whatis binary names are
- usually taken by existing utilities.
+ mdocml is in ISO C99 and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll need sqlite3 to build apropos (links to whatis),
+ man.cgi, and mandocdb.
+ To build and install into /usr/local/, just run make install.
+ Be careful: the preconv, apropos, and whatis binary names are usually taken by existing utilities.
- 23-09-2013: version 1.12.2 + xx-xx-2012: version 1.12.4
- The mdoc(7) to man(7) converter,
- to be called as mandoc -Tman, is now fully functional.
+ Ingo, can you summarise your changes here?
- The mandoc(1) utility now supports the -Ios (default operating system)
- input option, and the -Tutf8 output mode now actually works.
+ The mandocdb tools (mandocdb, apropos (absorbing whatis), and man.cgi) have been re-written to
+ use sqlite3 as a database.
- The mandocdb(8) utility no longer truncates existing databases when starting to build new ones, - but only replaces them when the build actually succeeds. -
-- The man(7) parser now supports the PD macro (paragraph distance), - and (for GNU man-ext compatibility only) EX (example block) and EE (example end). - Plus several bugfixes regarding indentation, line breaks, and vertical spacing, - and regarding RS following TP. -
-- The roff(7) parser now supports the \f(BI (bold+italic) font escape, - the \z (zero cursor advance) escape and the cc (change control character) - and it (input line trap) requests. - Plus bugfixes regarding the \t (tab) escape, nested escape sequences, and conditional requests. -
-- In mdoc(7), several bugs were fixed related to UTF-8 output of quoting enclosures, - delimiter handling, list indentation and horizontal and vertical spacing, - formatting of the Lk, %U, and %C macros, - plus some bugfixes related to the handling of syntax errors like badly nested font blocks, - stray Ta macros outside column lists, unterminated It Xo blocks, - and non-text children of Nm blocks. -
-- In tbl(7), the width of horizontal spans and the vertical spacing around tables was corrected, - and in man(7) files, a crash was fixed that was triggered by some particular unclosed T{ macros. -
-
- For mandoc developers, we now provide a tbl(3) library manual and gmdiff,
- a very small, very simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output comparison tool.
-
- 23-03-2011: version 1.12.1 -
-- Significant work on apropos and mandocdb. These tools are - now much more robust. - A whatis implementation is now handled as an apropos mode. - These tools are also able to minimally handle pre-formatted pages, that is, those already formatted by another utility - such as GNU troff. -
-- The man.cgi script is also now available for wider testing. It interfaces with mandocdb manuals cached by catman. HTML output is generated - on-the-fly by libmandoc or internal methods to convert pre-formatted pages. -
-- The mailing list archive for the discuss and tech lists are being hosted by Gmane at gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user and gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel, respectively. -
-- Lastly, I'm no longer providing binaries, as nobody has asked for them. -
-See cvsweb for historical notes.
@@ -346,8 +261,7 @@ Copyright © 2008–2011 Kristaps Dzonsons, - © 2013 Ingo Schwarze, - $Date: 2013/09/28 12:31:53 $ + $Date: 2012/06/09 14:19:55 $