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- - DESCRIPTION -++ mdocml – mdoc macro compiler + ++ Description +++ 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. + ++ 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 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; and makewhatis, for indexing manuals. + It is a BSD.lv project. + +
+ Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary, + Sources ++
+ mdocml is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any UNIX system, although makewhatis requires Berkeley Database (this is
+ installed by default on all BSD operating systems).
+ To compile mdocml, run + The most current version of mdocml is @VERSION@, dated @VDATE@. + -
- mdocml is a suite of tools compiling + Current +-- 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 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. - ++ Downstream +-
- Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary,
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- 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. - ++ Historical +-- Current -+
+ Documentation +-- Downstream -++ These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot. + -
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- - DOCUMENTATION -++ 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. + -- These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot. - +
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- - CONTACT -++ 19-05-2011: version 1.11.3 + ++ Introduce locale-encoding of output with the -Tlocale output option and Unicode escaped-character input. + See mandoc and mandoc_char, respectively, for details. + This allows for non-ASCII characters (e.g., \[u5000]) to be rendered in the locale's encoding, if said + environment supports wide-character encoding (if it does not, -Tascii is used instead). + Locale support can be turned off at compile time by removing -DUSE_WCHAR in the Makefile, in which case + -Tlocale is always a synonym for -Tascii. + ++ Furthermore, multibyte-encoded documents, such as those in UTF-8, may be on-the-fly recoded as mandoc input by using the newly-added preconv utility. + Note: in the future, this feature may be integrated into mandoc. + -- Please use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. Beyond that, contact - Kristaps at kris...@bsd.lv. - ++ 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. + -- You may also subscribe to several mailing lists (these require subscription, which is - moderated). An archive is not yet available on-line, although you may request one once - subscribed. - ++ 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. + -
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- - XX-07-2010: - version 1.10.5 - -- Purely a bug-fix and polish release. 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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- - 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: 2010/07/23 12:27:27 $
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+ See cvsweb for + historical notes. +
+ ++ + Copyright © 2008–2011 + Kristaps Dzonsons, + $Date: 2011/05/26 20:23:01 $ + +