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<B>mdocml</B> – UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@) |
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Sources: <A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">current</A>, |
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<B>mdocml</B> – mdoc macro compiler |
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<A NAME="description">Description</A> |
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<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <I><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></I>, the roff macro |
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package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <I><A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></I>, the predominant historical package for |
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UNIX manuals. The mission of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is to deprecate <A |
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HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, the GNU troff implementation, for displaying <I>mdoc</I> |
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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 slowly, produces |
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uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system. mdocml strives to fix this (respectively small, C, <A |
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<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler and <A |
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HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals (with |
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support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF. |
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It also includes <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A>, for recoding multibyte manuals; |
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<A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc</A>, for emitting only text parts of manuals; |
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<A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, for indexing manuals; and |
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<A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A>, <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A>, and |
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<A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A> (via <A HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>) for semantic search of manual content. |
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It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project. |
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<I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>. |
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<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll |
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need <A HREF="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html">libdb</A> to build <A |
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HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A>, <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A>, <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A>, <A |
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HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>, and <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> (this is installed by default on BSD UNIX |
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systems — see the <I>Makefile</I> if you're running Linux). To build and install into <I>/usr/local/</I>, just |
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run <CODE>make install</CODE>. Be careful: the <B>preconv</B>, <B>apropos</B>, and <B>whatis</B> binary names are |
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Binary archives consist of pre-compiled binaries, manuals, and other necessary files. |
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Universal (Mac OS X) binaries are compiled for the PCC, i386, and x86_64 architectures. |
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Windows binaries are compiled with <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.mingw.org">MingW</A> for the 32-bit (i686) and |
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64-bit (x86_64) architectures. |
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Several systems come bundled with <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> utilities. |
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If your system does not appear below, the maintainers have not contacted me and it should not be considered |
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Please <A HREF="#contact">contact us</A> if you plan on maintaining a downstream version! |
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<A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc" |
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These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current release. |
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They are the authoritative documentation for the <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> system. |
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<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <Q>-mdoc</Q>, the roff macro package |
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of choice for BSD manual pages, and <Q>-man</Q>, the predominant historical package for UNIX |
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manuals. The mission of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is to deprecate <A |
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HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, the GNU roff implementation, for |
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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 |
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slowly, produces uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system. mdocml strives to fix |
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this (respectively small, C, ISC-licensed, fast and regular). |
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The core of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is composed of the <A HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A>, <A |
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HREF="man.3.html">libman</A>, and <A HREF="roff.3.html">libroff</A> validating compiler libraries. All |
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are simple, fast libraries operating on memory buffers, so they may be used for a variety of front-ends |
emit only text of UNIX manuals |
(terminal-based, CGI and so on). The front-end is <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which formats |
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manuals for display. |
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The <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> suite is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv |
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Project</A> member. |
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format and display UNIX manuals |
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Sources correctly build and install on DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, GNU/Linux, and many |
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other operating systems, tested variously on i386, AMD64, alpha, and others. The most current version |
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is <SPAN CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN>, dated <SPAN class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>. A full <A |
recode multibyte UNIX manuals |
HREF="ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</A> (<A HREF="ChangeLog.txt">txt</A>) is written with each release. |
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search the manual page database |
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<A HREF="whatis.1.ps">ps</A>) |
<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz</A> |
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mandoc macro compiler library |
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<A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> |
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<A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc" |
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cgi for manpage query and display |
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eqn-mandoc language reference |
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<A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/" |
mandoc special characters |
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Historical |
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roff-mandoc language reference |
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These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot. |
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<TD><A HREF="man.3.html">man(3)</A> (<A HREF="man.3.txt">text</A>)</TD> |
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<TD><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A> (<A HREF="mandoc.1.txt">text</A>)</TD> |
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<TD>format and display UNIX manuals</TD> |
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index UNIX manuals |
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<TD><A HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">mandoc_char(7)</A> (<A HREF="mandoc_char.7.txt">text</A>)</TD> |
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<TD><A HREF="manuals.7.html">manuals(7)</A> (<A HREF="manuals.7.txt">text</A>)</TD> |
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<TD>a guide to writing UNIX manuals</TD> |
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<TD><A HREF="mdoc.3.html">mdoc(3)</A> (<A HREF="mdoc.3.txt">text</A>)</TD> |
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Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. Please check the |
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While adding features, an <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> utility has been merged from the mandoc-tools sandbox. |
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This interfaces with <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> for semantic search of manual content. <A |
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HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A> is different from the traditional <B>apropos</B> primarily in allowing keyword search |
Release consisting of the results from the m2k10 hackathon and up-merge from OpenBSD. |
(such as for functions, utilities, etc.) and regular expressions. |
This requires a significant note of thanks to Ingo Schwarze (OpenBSD) and Joerg |
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Sonnenberger (NetBSD) for their hard work, and again to Joerg for hosting m2k10. |
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In documentation news, the <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A> and <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A> manuals have been made |
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considerably more readable by adding <I>MACRO OVERVIEW</I> sections, by moving the gory details of the <I>LANGUAGE |
<LI>a <A HREF="roff.3.html">libroff</A> preprocessor in front of <A |
SYNTAX</I> to the <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> manual, and by moving the very technical <I>MACRO SYNTAX</I> sections |
HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A> and <A HREF="man.3.html">libman</A> stripping out |
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<A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> instructions;</LI> |
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Furthermore, for <A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl</A>, the -<B>Tascii</B> mode horizontal spacing of tables was rewritten |
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completely. It is now compatible with <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, both |
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with and without frames and rulers. Nesting of indented blocks is now supported in <A HREF="man.7.html">man</A>, and |
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several bugs were fixed regarding indentation and alignment. The page headers in <A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A> are now |
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multiple files with <SPAN CLASS="flag">-fign-errors</SPAN>;</LI> |
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See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for |
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historical notes. |
<LI>handling of badly-nested explicit-scoped macros;</LI> |
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<A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>, |
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