=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/Attic/index.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.136 retrieving revision 1.145 diff -u -p -r1.136 -r1.145 --- mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2011/08/17 19:35:58 1.136 +++ mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2011/10/06 23:15:56 1.145 @@ -39,35 +39,38 @@ 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 mandocdb, for indexing manuals. + It also includes preconv, for recoding multibyte manuals; + demandoc, for emitting only text parts of manuals; + mandocdb, for indexing manuals; and + apropos, 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 modern system.
- To build and install into /usr/local/, just run make install
.
- Be aware: if you have an existing groff installation, this may overwrite its preconv binary.
- The mandocdb utility is not yet linked to the build; please contact
- us if you plan to use it.
+ mdocml is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll
+ need libdb to build apropos 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 and apropos binary names are usually taken by
+ existing utilities.
Binary archives consist of pre-compiled binaries, manuals, and other necessary files. Universal (Mac OS X) binaries are compiled for the PCC, i386, and x86_64 architectures. Windows binaries are compiled with MingW for the 32-bit (i686) and 64-bit (x86_64) architectures.
-Several systems come bundled with mdocml utilities. If your system does not appear below, the maintainers have not contacted me and it should not be considered @@ -121,6 +124,26 @@
- 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.
bug-reports, general questions, and announcements - (archive) + (archive) |
patches and system discussions - (archive) + (archive) |
source commit messages - (archive) + (archive) |