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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 “-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 roff implementation, for - displaying mdoc(7) pages whilst providing token support for man(7). - ++ Current +-- What are UNIX manuals? Read manuals(7) for an introduction. - +
- 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). - ++ Downstream +-- The core of mdocml are the man(3) and mdoc(3) libraries, validating compilers producing intermediate-form - output from -man or -mdoc input. Both are simple, fast libraries operating on memory buffers, so they - may be used for a variety of front-ends (terminal-based, CGI and so on). - - -- The primary front-end is mandoc(1), which formats manuals for - display on the terminal. Its purpose is to deprecate usage of groff for displaying -mdoc and, to a - limited extent, -man manuals on the terminal. - +
- Please submit patches, bug reports and suggestions! Although a significant - implementation exists, work remains for the backend library and especially the front-end utilities. See - the contact information below for submissions. - - |
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- - INSTALLING SOURCES -++ Historical +-- Sources correctly build and install on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux operating systems, tested - variously on i386, AMD64, alpha and others. - +
- The most current version is @VERSION@, dated - @VDATE@. - ++ Documentation +-- Snapshot source -++ These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot. + -- CVS sources are checkedout and snapshotted with version updates. These may be found in the /snapshots/ directory. - +
- % cd /tmp + Contact +-- Snapshot port/pkgsrc -++ 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. + -- The source snapshot is automatically converted into OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD ports at /ports-openbsd/, /ports-netbsd/ and /ports-freebsd/, respectively. Please read the OpenBSD Ports FAQ, the NetBSD pkgsrc guide or the FreeBSD ports - guide, first. - +
- OpenBSD port -++ News +-
- # pkg_delete mdocml + 26-05-2011: 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 into mandoc input by using the newly-added preconv utility. + Note: in the future, this feature may be integrated into mandoc. + -- NetBSD pkgsrc -++ 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. + -
- # pkg_delete mdocml + 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. + -- FreeBSD port -++ See cvsweb for + historical notes. + -
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- - CONTACT -- -- Please contact Kristaps, kris...@kth.se, with questions, bug reports, patches, and so - on. - - -- If you'd like to submit patches, please contact us beforehand in case larger changes are pending but not - checked in. If making a bug report, please make sure it's repeatable on the most current snapshot. - - |
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- Copyright © 2008, 2009 Kristaps Džonsons, $Date: 2009/04/05 16:34:22 $
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+ + Copyright © 2008–2011 + Kristaps Dzonsons, + $Date: 2011/05/26 21:23:50 $ + +
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