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- - DESCRIPTION -++ mdocml – mdoc macro compiler + -
- mdocml is a suite of tools compiling + DESCRIPTION +-- 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). - ++ 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. + -- mdocml consists of the libmdoc, libman, and libroff validating compilers; and mandoc, which interfaces with the compiler libraries to format output for UNIX - terminals, XHTML, HTML, and PostScript. mdocml is a BSD.lv project. - ++ 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). + -
- Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary,
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- - SOURCES -++ mdocml consists of the libmandoc validating compiler and mandoc, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals, XHTML, + HTML, PostScript, and PDF. It is a BSD.lv project. + -- mdocml is architecture- and system-neutral, written in plain-old C. The most - current version is @VERSION@, dated @VDATE@. A full - ChangeLog (txt) is written with each release. - +
+ Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary, - Current -++ SOURCES +-
+ mdocml is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any UNIX system. The most current
+ version is @VERSION@, dated @VDATE@. If your system doesn't come
+ with mdocml (see
+ Note that makewhatis is not yet linked to the build. You must run - Downstream -++ Current +-
- Historical -++ Downstream +-
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- - DOCUMENTATION -+
- These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot. - ++ Historical +-
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- - CONTACT -++ DOCUMENTATION +-- Please use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. Beyond that, contact - Kristaps at kris...@bsd.lv. - ++ These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot. + -- You may also subscribe to several mailing lists (these require subscription, which is - moderated). - +
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- - NEWS --
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- - xx-12-2010: - version 1.10.8 - -- Significant improvements merged from OpenBSD downstream, including - -
- Also overhauled the -Thtml and -Txhtml output modes. They now display readable output in arbitrary - browsers, including text-based ones like lynx. Available style-sheet classes - have been considerably changed! See the example.style.css file for details. Lastly, libmdoc and libman have been cleaned up - and reduced in size and complexity. - -
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- - 27-09-2010: - version 1.10.6 - -- Calling conventions for mandoc have changed: -W improved and -f deprecated. Non-ASCII - characters are also now uniformly discarded. Lots of documentation improvements. Many - incremental fixes accomodating for groff's more interesting productions. Lastly, pod2man preambles are - now fully accepted after some considerable roff and special - character support. - -
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- - 27-07-2010: - version 1.10.5 - -- Primarily a bug-fix and polish release, but including -Tpdf - support in mandoc by way of Summer of Code. - Highlights: - -
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- - 12-07-2010: - version 1.10.4 - -- Lots of features developed during both Summer of Code and the - OpenBSD c2k10 hackathon: - - -
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- - 19-06-2010: - version 1.10.2 - -- Small release featuring text-decoration in -Tps output, a few - minor relaxations of errors, and some optimisations. - -
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- - 07-06-2010: - version 1.10.1 - -
- This primarily focusses on the
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- - 29-05-2010: - version 1.10.0 - -- Release consisting of the results from the m2k10 hackathon and up-merge from OpenBSD. - This requires a significant note of thanks to Ingo Schwarze (OpenBSD) and Joerg - Sonnenberger (NetBSD) for their hard work, and again to Joerg for hosting m2k10. - Highlights (mostly cribbed from Ingo's m2k10 report) follow in no particular order: - -
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- Copyright © 2008–2010 Kristaps Dzonsons, $Date: 2010/12/20 13:57:49 $
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+ Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. (these require subscription). Please check the + TODO for known issues + before posting. Beyond that, contact Kristaps at kris...@bsd.lv. +
+ ++ disc...@mdocml.bsd.lv + | ++ bug-reports, general questions, and announcements + (archive) + | +
+ tec...@mdocml.bsd.lv + | ++ patches and system discussions + (archive) + | +
+ sou...@mdocml.bsd.lv + | ++ source commit messages + (archive) + | +
+ 12-05-2011: version 1.11.2 +
++ Corrected some installation issues in version 1.11.1. + Further migration to libmandoc. + Initial public release (this utility is very much under development) of makewhatis, + initially named mandoc-db. + This utility produces keyword databases of manual content + mandoc-cgi, which features semantic querying of manual content. +
+ ++ 04-04-2011: version 1.11.1 +
++ The earlier libroff, libmdoc, and libman soup have been merged into + a single library, libmandoc, which manages all aspects of + parsing real manuals (from line-handling to tbl parsing). +
++ Beyond this structural change, initial eqn functionality is in + place. For the time being, this is limited to the recognition of equation blocks; + future version of mdocml will expand upon this framework. +
++ As usual, many general fixes and improvements have also occurred. In particular, a great + deal of redundancy and superfluous code has been removed with the merging of the backend + libraries. +
+ ++ 07-01-2011: version 1.10.9 +
++ Many back-end fixes have been implemented: argument handling (quoting), man improvements, error/warning classes, and many more. +
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+ Initial tbl functionality (see the TS
, TE
, and
+ T&
macros in the roff manual) has been
+ merged from tbl.bsd.lv. Output is
+ still minimal, especially for -Thtml and -Txhtml, but manages to at least display data. This means that mandoc now has built-in support for two troff preprocessors via
+ libroff: soelim and tbl.
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+ 24-12-2010: version 1.10.8 +
++ Significant improvements merged from OpenBSD downstream, including +
+
+ Also overhauled the -Thtml and -Txhtml output modes. They now display readable output in arbitrary
+ browsers, including text-based ones like lynx. See HTML and XHTML manuals in the DOCUMENTATION section for examples. Attention: available style-sheet classes have been considerably
+ changed! See the example.style.css file for details.
+ Lastly, libmdoc and libman have been
+ cleaned up and reduced in size and complexity.
+
+ See cvsweb for + historical notes. +
+ ++ Copyright © 2008–2011 + Kristaps Dzonsons, + $Date: 2011/05/13 00:51:27 $ +