- mdocml is a suite of tools compiling “mdoc”, the roff macro + mdocml is a suite of tools compiling “-mdoc”, the roff macro package for BSD manual pages. The mission of mdocml is to deprecate groff, the GNU roff implementation, for displaying BSD mdoc pages.
- Why? groff amounts to roughly 5,2 MB of source code (OpenBSD 4.2), some 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). + 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).
The core of mdocml is the libmdoc library, a validating scanner-parser producing - intermediate-form output from mdoc input. libmdoc is a simple, fast library operating on memory buffers - of mdoc input. Its intermediate output, an abstract syntax tree, is fully documented in the mdoc(3) reference manual. + intermediate-form output from -mdoc input. libmdoc is a simple, fast library operating on memory + buffers, so it can be used for a variety of front-ends (terminal-based, CGI and so on). The primary + front-end is mandoc(1), which formats -mdoc manuals for display on the + terminal.
- There are three utilities implementing mdoc(3): + The mandoc(1) utility is intended to deprecate usage of groff for displaying mdoc manuals on the + terminal.
-- The mdocterm(1) utility is intended to deprecate usage of groff for displaying BSD manuals to the - terminal, either directly or cached as a “catman” page. -
- -Please submit patches! Although a significant implementation exists, work remains for the backend library and especially the front-end utilities. See the contact information below to submit patches and bug reports. @@ -74,8 +64,8 @@
- Sources correctly build and install on OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux operating systems, tested variously on - i386, AMD64 and Alpha. + Sources correctly build and install on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux operating systems, tested + variously on i386, AMD64, Alpha and others.
@@ -106,10 +96,12 @@
- The source snapshot is automatically converted into OpenBSD port and NetBSD pkgsrc forms at /ports-openbsd/ and /ports-netbsd/, - respectively. Please read the OpenBSD Ports FAQ or - NetBSD pkgsrc guide, first. + The source snapshot is automatically converted into OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD ports at /ports-openbsd/, /ports-netbsd/ and /ports-freebsd/, respectively. Please read the OpenBSD Ports FAQ, NetBSD pkgsrc guide or FreeBSD Ports Guide first.
+ # pkg_delete mdocml
+ # cd /usr/ports/textproc/
+ # rm -rf mdocml
+ # ftp -V -o- http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ports-freebsd/mdocml.tar.gz | tar -zvxf -
+ # cd mdocml
+ # make build
+ # make install
+