- 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).
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ 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. + man.cgi for semantic search of manual content. It is a BSD.lv project.@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@
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
+ HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos, whatis, man.cgi,
+ 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.
@@ -71,54 +71,39 @@
- 02-10-2013: version 1.12.2 -
-
- The mdoc(7) to man(7) converter,
- to be called as mandoc -Tman, is now fully functional.
-
- The mandoc(1) utility now supports the -Ios (default operating system)
- input option, and the -Tutf8 output mode now actually works.
-
- 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.
-
- See NEWS for historical notes. -
-23-03-2011: version 1.12.1
@@ -335,7 +318,7 @@
The man.cgi script is also now available for wider testing. It interfaces with mandocdb manuals cached by catman. HTML output is generated
+ HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb manuals cached by catman. HTML output is generated
on-the-fly by libmandoc or internal methods to convert pre-formatted pages.
@@ -355,8 +338,7 @@ Copyright © 2008–2011 Kristaps Dzonsons, - © 2013 Ingo Schwarze, - $Date: 2013/10/05 14:05:09 $ + $Date: 2012/06/09 11:27:38 $