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<b>mdocml</b> – mdoc macro compiler |
<B>mdocml</B> – mdoc macro compiler |
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DESCRIPTION |
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<span class="nm">mdocml</span> is a suite of tools compiling “-mdoc”, the roff macro |
<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <Q>-<A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></Q>, the |
package of choice for BSD manual pages. The mission of <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is to deprecate |
roff macro package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <Q>-<A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></Q>, the |
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" class="external">groff</a>, the GNU roff implementation, |
predominant historical package for UNIX manuals. The mission of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is to |
for displaying -mdoc pages. |
deprecate <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, the GNU troff |
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implementation, for displaying -mdoc pages whilst providing token support for -man. |
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Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and all of which is GPL. It runs |
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 |
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). |
this (respectively small, C, <A CLASS="external" |
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The core of <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is the libmdoc library, a validating scanner-parser producing |
<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating |
intermediate-form output from -mdoc input. libmdoc is a simple, fast library operating on memory |
compilers and <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which interfaces with the compiler library to format |
buffers, so it can be used for a variety of front-ends (terminal-based, CGI and so on). |
output for UNIX terminals, XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF. It is a <A CLASS="external" |
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HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project. |
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The primary front-end is <span class="man">mandoc(1)</span>, which formats -mdoc manuals for display on |
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the terminal. The <span class="man">mandoc(1)</span> utility is intended to deprecate usage of <a |
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href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" class="external">groff</a> for displaying mdoc manuals on the |
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<span class="attn">Please submit patches, bug reports and suggestions!</span> Although a significant |
<I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, |
implementation exists, work remains for the backend library and especially the front-end utilities. See |
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the <a href="#contact">contact</a> information below for submissions. |
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<A NAME="sources">SOURCES</A> |
INSTALLING SOURCES |
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Sources correctly build and install on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux operating systems, tested |
<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any UNIX system. |
variously on i386, AMD64, alpha and others. |
The most current version is <SPAN CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN>, dated <SPAN class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>. |
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The most current version is <span class="attn">@VERSION@</span>, dated |
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<A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> |
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CVS sources are checkedout and snapshotted with version updates. These may be found in the <a |
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% cd /tmp<br> |
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% make all<br> |
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<A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc" |
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Snapshot port/pkgsrc |
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href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html">FreeBSD ports |
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OpenBSD port |
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# pkg_delete mdocml<br> |
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# ftp -V -o- http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ports-openbsd/mdocml.tar.gz | tar -zvxf -<br> |
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# cd mdocml<br> |
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NetBSD pkgsrc |
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# pkg_delete mdocml<br> |
Please use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. (these require |
# cd /usr/pkgsrc/textproc/<br> |
subscription). Beyond that, contact Kristaps at <A |
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# ftp -V -o- http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ports-netbsd/mdocml.tar.gz | tar -zvxf -<br> |
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bug-reports, general questions, and announcements |
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If you'd like to submit patches, please contact us beforehand in case larger changes are pending but not |
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<Q>T&</Q> macros in the <A HREF="roff.7.html#x5c265453">roff</A> manual) has been |
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merged from <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://tbl.bsd.lv">tbl.bsd.lv</A>. Output is |
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