=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/Attic/index.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.120 retrieving revision 1.154.2.7 diff -u -p -r1.120 -r1.154.2.7 --- mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2011/05/26 12:14:46 1.120 +++ mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2013/10/05 14:05:09 1.154.2.7 @@ -3,17 +3,20 @@
-- mdocml – mdoc macro compiler + mdocml – UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)
- ++ Sources: current, + cvsweb + (archives) +
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 @@ -21,124 +24,109 @@ HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">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 + Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and GPL version 3. 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, XHTML, - HTML, PostScript, and PDF. It is a BSD.lv project. + HREF="mandoc.1.html">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; and + apropos, whatis, and + man.cgi (via catman) for semantic search of manual content. + It is a BSD.lv project.
-
Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary, mandoc
.
- 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). The most current version is @VERSION@,
- dated @VDATE@. If your system doesn't come with mdocml (see
- Downstream
), run make
to compile and make install
to install into /usr/local.
- Note that makewhatis is not yet linked to the build. You must run make
- makewhatis
to build it (it does not install).
+ mdocml is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll
+ need libdb to build apropos, whatis, man.cgi, catman, and mandocdb (this is installed by default on BSD UNIX
+ systems — see the Makefile if you're running Linux). To build and install into /usr/local/, just
+ run make install
. Be careful: the preconv, apropos, and whatis binary names are
+ usually taken by existing utilities.
Source archive | +DragonFly BSD | - /snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz - (md5) + contrib/mdocml (1.12.1 sources) + lib/libmandoc + usr.bin/mandoc (build system) |
Online source | +FreeBSD 10.0, -CURRENT | - cvsweb + contrib/mdocml (1.12.1 sources) + usr.bin/mandoc (build system) |
DragonFly BSD | +FreeBSD 9.x, 8.x | - usr.bin/mandoc + ports/textproc/mdocml (1.12.1 port) |
FreeBSD | +NetBSD | - ports/textproc/mdocml + src/external/bsd/mdocml (1.12.1 sources plus patches and build system) |
NetBSD | +OpenBSD | - src/external/bsd/mdocml + src/usr.bin/mandoc (1.12.2 sources and build system) |
OpenBSD | +pkgsrc | - src/usr.bin/mandoc + textproc/mdocml (1.12.0 port) |
Source archive | +Minix3 | - /snapshots/ + external/bsd/mdocml (1.10.9 sources and build system) |
Alpine Linux | ++ aports/main/mdocml (1.12.1 port) + | +
- These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot. + These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current release. + They are the authoritative documentation for the mdocml system.
mandoc(1) | +apropos(1) | - format and display UNIX manuals - - (text | - xhtml | - pdf | - postscript) - + search the manual page database |
makewhatis(1) | +demandoc(1) | - index UNIX manuals - - (text | - xhtml | - pdf | - postscript) - + emit only text of UNIX manuals |
mandoc(1) | ++ format and display UNIX manuals + | +|
preconv(1) | recode multibyte UNIX manuals - - (text | - xhtml | - pdf | - postscript) - | |
whatis(1) | ++ search the manual page database + | +|
mandoc(3) | mandoc macro compiler library - - (text | - xhtml | - pdf | - postscript) - | |
man(7) | +tbl(3) | - man language reference - - (text | - xhtml | - pdf | - postscript) - + roff table parser library for mandoc |
eqn(7) | eqn-mandoc language reference - - (text | - xhtml | - pdf | - postscript) - | |
man(7) | ++ man language reference + | +|
man.cgi(7) | ++ cgi for manpage query and display + | +|
mandoc_char(7) | mandoc special characters - - (text | - xhtml | - pdf | - postscript) - | |
mdoc(7) | mdoc language reference - - (text | - xhtml | - pdf | - postscript) - | |
roff(7) | roff-mandoc language reference - - (text | - xhtml | - pdf | - postscript) - | |
tbl(7) | tbl-mandoc language reference - - (text | - xhtml | - pdf | - postscript) - | |
catman(8) | ++ update a man.cgi manpage cache + | +|
mandocdb(8) | ++ index UNIX manuals + | +
- Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. (these require subscription). Please check the + Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. Please check the TODO for known issues - before posting. Beyond that, contact Kristaps at kris...@bsd.lv. + before posting. All lists are subscription-only: send a blank e-mail to the listed address to subscribe. Beyond that, + contact Kristaps at kris...@bsd.lv. Archives are available at Gmane.
-bug-reports, general questions, and announcements - (archive) |
patches and system discussions - (archive) |
source commit messages - (archive) |
- 19-05-2011: version 1.11.3 + 02-10-2013: version 1.12.2
- 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.
+ The mdoc(7) to man(7) converter,
+ to be called as mandoc -Tman
, is now fully functional.
- 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.
+ The mandoc(1) utility now supports the -Ios
(default operating system)
+ input option, and the -Tutf8
output mode now actually works.
- 12-05-2011: version 1.11.2 +
+ The mandocdb(8) utility no longer truncates existing databases when starting to build new ones, + but only replaces them when the build actually succeeds.
- 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. + 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.
+
+ See NEWS for historical notes. +
- 04-04-2011: version 1.11.1 + 23-03-2011: version 1.12.1
- 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). + Significant work on apropos and mandocdb. These tools are + now much more robust. + A whatis implementation is now handled as an apropos mode. + These tools are also able to minimally handle pre-formatted pages, that is, those already formatted by another utility + such as GNU troff.
- 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. + The man.cgi script is also now available for wider testing. It interfaces with mandocdb manuals cached by catman. HTML output is generated + on-the-fly by libmandoc or internal methods to convert pre-formatted pages.
- 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. + The mailing list archive for the discuss and tech lists are being hosted by Gmane at gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.user and gmane.comp.tools.mdocml.devel, respectively.
-+ Lastly, I'm no longer providing binaries, as nobody has asked for them. +
+See cvsweb for historical notes.
-Copyright © 2008–2011 Kristaps Dzonsons, - $Date: 2011/05/26 12:14:46 $ + © 2013 Ingo Schwarze, + $Date: 2013/10/05 14:05:09 $