- mdocml is a suite of tools compiling “mdoc”, the roff macro - package for BSD manual pages. The mission of mdocml is to deprecate groff, the GNU roff implementation, for - displaying BSD mdoc pages. + mdocml is a suite of tools compiling “-mdoc”, the roff macro + package of choice for BSD manual pages. The mission of mdocml is to deprecate + groff, the GNU roff implementation, + for displaying -mdoc pages.
- Why? groff amounts to roughly 5,2 MB of source code (OpenBSD 4.2), some 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). + 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).
The core of mdocml is the libmdoc library, a validating scanner-parser producing - intermediate-form output from mdoc input. libmdoc is a simple, fast library operating on memory buffers - of mdoc input. Its intermediate output, an abstract syntax tree, is fully documented in the mdoc(3) reference manual. + intermediate-form output from -mdoc input. libmdoc is a simple, fast library operating on memory + buffers, so it can be used for a variety of front-ends (terminal-based, CGI and so on).
- +- There are three utilities implementing mdoc(3): + The primary front-end is mandoc(1), which formats -mdoc manuals for display on + the terminal. The mandoc(1) utility is intended to deprecate usage of groff for displaying mdoc manuals on the + terminal.
-- The mdocterm(1) utility is intended to deprecate usage of groff for displaying BSD manuals to the - terminal, either directly or cached as a “catman” page. + 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.
- -- Please submit patches! Although a significant implementation exists, work - remains for the backend library and especially the front-end utilities. See the contact information below to submit patches and bug reports. -
- Sources correctly build and install on OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux operating systems, tested variously on - i386, AMD64 and Alpha. + Sources correctly build and install on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux operating systems, tested + variously on i386, AMD64, alpha and others.
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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, NetBSD pkgsrc guide or FreeBSD Ports Guide first. + href="/ports-freebsd/">/ports-freebsd/, respectively. Please read the OpenBSD Ports FAQ, the NetBSD pkgsrc guide or the FreeBSD ports + guide, first.