=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/Attic/index.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.158 retrieving revision 1.166 diff -u -p -r1.158 -r1.166 --- mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2012/06/09 14:19:55 1.158 +++ mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2013/12/31 17:47:17 1.166 @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
+ mdocml – UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)
@@ -20,25 +21,33 @@
mdocml is a suite of tools compiling mdoc, the roff macro package of choice for BSD manual pages, and man, the predominant historical package for - UNIX manuals. The mission of mdocml is to deprecate groff, the GNU troff implementation, for displaying mdoc - pages whilst providing token support for man. + UNIX manuals. + It is small, ISO C, ISC-licensed, and quite fast.
- 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 tool set features mandoc, + based on the libmandoc validating compiler, + 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.
- 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, - apropos (includes whatis mode) for indexed manual search, and - man.cgi for indexed manual search online. - It is a BSD.lv project. + mdocml has predominantly been developed on OpenBSD + and is both an OpenBSD + and a BSD.lv project. + We strive to support all interested free operating systems, in particular + DragonFly, + NetBSD, + FreeBSD, + Minix 3, + and GNU/Linux, + as well as all systems running the pkgsrc portable package build system. + All of these projects have helped to make mdocml better, by providing feedback and advice, + bug reports, and patches.
Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary, mandoc
.
@@ -59,8 +68,7 @@
Several systems come bundled with mdocml utilities.
If your system does not appear below, the maintainers have not contacted me and it should not be considered
- official
.
- Please contact us if you plan on maintaining a downstream version!
+ official
, so please contact us if you plan on maintaining a downstream version!
DragonFly BSD | - usr.bin/mandoc + contrib/mdocml (1.12.3 sources) + lib/libmandoc + usr.bin/mandoc (build system) | |
FreeBSD | +FreeBSD 10.0, -CURRENT | - ports/textproc/mdocml + contrib/mdocml (1.12.1 sources) + usr.bin/mandoc (build system) |
FreeBSD 9.x, 8.x | ++ ports/textproc/mdocml (1.12.2 port) + | +|
NetBSD | - src/external/bsd/mdocml + src/external/bsd/mdocml (1.12.1 sources plus patches and build system) | |
OpenBSD | - src/usr.bin/mandoc + src/usr.bin/mandoc (1.12.3 sources under active development and build system) | |
pkgsrc | - textproc/mdocml + textproc/mdocml (1.12.3 port) | |
Minix3 | - external/bsd/mdocml + external/bsd/mdocml (1.10.9 sources and build system) | |
Alpine Linux | ++ aports/main/mdocml (1.12.2 port) + | +
- xx-xx-2012: version 1.12.4 + xx-xx-2014: version 1.13.0
- Ingo, can you summarise your changes here? -
-- The mandocdb tools (mandocdb, mandocdb tools (mandocdb, apropos (absorbing whatis), and man.cgi) have been re-written to use sqlite3 as a database.
++ 31-12-2013: version 1.12.3 +
- See cvsweb for - historical notes. + In the mdoc(7) SYNOPSIS, line breaks and hanging indentation + now work correctly for .Fo/.Fa/.Fc and .Fn blocks. + Thanks to Franco Fichtner for doing part of the work.
++ The mdoc(7) .Bk macro got some addititonal bugfixes. +
++ In mdoc(7) macro arguments, double quotes can now be quoted + by doubling them, just like in man(7). + Thanks to Tsugutomo ENAMI for the patch. +
++ At the end of man(7) macro lines, end-of-sentence spacing + now works. Thanks to Franco Fichtner for the patch. +
++ For backward compatibility, the man(7) parser now supports the + man-ext .UR/.UE (uniform resource identifier) block macros. +
++ The man(7) parser now handles closing blocks that are not open + more gracefully. +
++ The man(7) parser now ignores blank lines right after .SH and .SS. +
++ In the man(7) formatter, reset indentation when leaving a block, + not just when entering the next one. +
++ The roff(7) .nr request now supports incrementing and decrementing + number registers and stops parsing the number right before the first non-digit character. +
++ The roff(7) parser now supports the alternative escape sequence + syntax \C'uXXXX' for Unicode characters. +
++ The roff(7) parser now parses and ignores the .fam (font family) + and .hw (hyphenation points) requests and the \d and \u escape sequences. +
++ The roff(7) manual got a new ESCAPE SEQUENCE REFERENCE. +
++ 05-10-2013: 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.
+
Copyright © 2008–2011 Kristaps Dzonsons, - $Date: 2012/06/09 14:19:55 $ + © 2013 Ingo Schwarze, + $Date: 2013/12/31 17:47:17 $