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                 <P CLASS="head">                  <P CLASS="head">
                         <B>mdocml</B> &#8211; mdoc macro compiler                          <B>mdocml</B> &#8211; mdoc macro compiler
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                         <A NAME="description">Description</A>                          <A NAME="description">Description</A>
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                         <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <I><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></I>, the roff macro                          <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <I><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></I>, the roff macro
                         package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <I><A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></I>, the predominant historical package for                          package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <I><A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></I>, the predominant historical package for
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                         HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, the GNU troff implementation, for displaying <I>mdoc</I>                          HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, the GNU troff implementation, for displaying <I>mdoc</I>
                         pages whilst providing token support for <I>man</I>.                          pages whilst providing token support for <I>man</I>.
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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                          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, <A                          uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system.  mdocml strives to fix this (respectively small, C, <A
                         CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, fast and regular).                          CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, fast and regular).
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                         <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler and <A                          <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler and <A
                         HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals, XHTML,                          HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals (with
                         HTML, PostScript, and PDF.  It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.                          support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.
                           It also includes <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A>, for recoding multibyte manuals; and <A
                           HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A>, for indexing manuals.
                           It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.
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                         <I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.                          <I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.
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                         <A NAME="sources">Sources</A>                          <A NAME="sources">Sources</A>
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                         <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any UNIX system, although <A                          <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any UNIX system, although <A
                         HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A> requires <A CLASS="external"                          HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A> requires <A CLASS="external"
                         HREF="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html">Berkeley Database</A> (this is                          HREF="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html">Berkeley Database</A> (this is
                         installed by default on all BSD operating systems).  The most current version is <SPAN CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN>,                          installed by default on all BSD operating systems).
                         dated <SPAN class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>.  If your system doesn't come with <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> (see                          To compile <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN>, run <CODE>make</CODE>, then <CODE>make install</CODE> to install into
                         <Q>Downstream</Q>), run <CODE>make</CODE> to compile and <CODE>make install</CODE> to install into <I>/usr/local</I>.                          <I>/usr/local</I>.
                         Note that <A HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A> is not yet linked to the build.  You must run <CODE>make                          Be aware: if you have an existing <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A> installation,
                           this may overwrite its <B>preconv</B> binary.
                           The <A HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A> utility is not yet linked to the build.  You must run <CODE>make
                         makewhatis</CODE> to build it (it does not install).                          makewhatis</CODE> to build it (it does not install).
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                           The most current version of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is <SPAN CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN>, dated <SPAN
                           class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>.
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                         Current                          Current
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                                         <TD>Source archive</TD>                                          <TD>Source archive</TD>
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                                         <A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz</A>                                          <A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz</A>
                                         (<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.md5">md5</A>)                                          <SMALL>(<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.md5">md5</A>)</SMALL>
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                         Furthermore, multibyte-encoded documents, such as those in UTF-8, may be on-the-fly recoded as <A                          Furthermore, multibyte-encoded documents, such as those in UTF-8, may be on-the-fly recoded as <A
                         HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> input by using the newly-added <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A> utility.                          HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> input by using the newly-added <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A> utility.
                           Note: in the future, this feature may be integrated into <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>.
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