=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/Attic/index.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.116 retrieving revision 1.122 diff -u -p -r1.116 -r1.122 --- mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2011/05/13 00:51:27 1.116 +++ mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2011/05/26 21:23:50 1.122 @@ -9,11 +9,9 @@

mdocml – mdoc macro compiler

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- DESCRIPTION + Description

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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 @@ -21,36 +19,40 @@ HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff, the GNU troff implementation, for 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 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).

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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; and makewhatis, for indexing manuals. + It is a BSD.lv project.

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Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary, mandoc.

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- SOURCES + Sources

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- mdocml is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any UNIX system. 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. + 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 make, then make install to install into + /usr/local. + Be aware: if you have an existing groff installation, + this may overwrite its preconv binary. + The makewhatis utility is not yet linked to the build. You must run make + makewhatis to build it (it does not install).

- Note that makewhatis is not yet linked to the build. You must run make - makewhatis to build it. + The most current version of mdocml is @VERSION@, dated @VDATE@.

@@ -65,7 +67,7 @@ Source archive /snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz - (md5) + (md5) @@ -134,7 +136,7 @@

- DOCUMENTATION + Documentation

@@ -158,7 +160,7 @@ - makewhatis(1) + makewhatis(1) index UNIX manuals @@ -170,6 +172,18 @@ + preconv(1) + + recode multibyte UNIX manuals + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + + + + mandoc(3) mandoc macro compiler library @@ -257,7 +271,7 @@

- CONTACT + Contact

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- NEWS + News

+ 26-05-2011: version 1.11.3 +

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+ 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. +

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+ 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. +

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12-05-2011: version 1.11.2

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- 07-01-2011: version 1.10.9 -

- Many back-end fixes have been implemented: argument handling (quoting), man improvements, error/warning classes, and many more. -

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- Initial tbl functionality (see the TS, TE, and - T& macros in the roff manual) has been - merged from tbl.bsd.lv. Output is - still minimal, especially for -Thtml and -Txhtml, but manages to at least display data. This means that mandoc now has built-in support for two troff preprocessors via - libroff: soelim and tbl. -

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- 24-12-2010: version 1.10.8 -

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- Significant improvements merged from OpenBSD downstream, including -

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- Also overhauled the -Thtml and -Txhtml output modes. They now display readable output in arbitrary - browsers, including text-based ones like lynx. See HTML and XHTML manuals in the DOCUMENTATION section for examples. Attention: available style-sheet classes have been considerably - changed! See the example.style.css file for details. - Lastly, libmdoc and libman have been - cleaned up and reduced in size and complexity. -

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See cvsweb for historical notes.

- Copyright © 2008–2011 - Kristaps Dzonsons, - $Date: 2011/05/13 00:51:27 $ + + Copyright © 2008–2011 + Kristaps Dzonsons, + $Date: 2011/05/26 21:23:50 $ +