mdocml – mdoc macro compiler
-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 @@ -21,42 +19,44 @@ HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">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, 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.
-
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 UNIX system, although makewhatis requires Berkeley Database (this is
- installed by default on all BSD operating systems). 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.
- Note that makewhatis is not yet linked to the build. You must run make
+ 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).
+ The most current version of mdocml is @VERSION@, dated @VDATE@. +
| Source archive | /snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz - (md5) + (md5) |
These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot.
@@ -267,11 +261,9 @@ -Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. (these require subscription). Please check the TODO for known issues @@ -279,7 +271,6 @@ HREF="http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01M6h_w7twDp58ZgH57eWC_w==&c=Q2DBUt401ePlSeupJFrq_Q==" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address">kris...@bsd.lv.
-- 19-05-2011: version 1.11.3 + 12-07-2011: version 1.11.4
+ Bug-fixes and clean-ups across all systems, especially in makewhatis (note: still not
+ connected to the general build and must be compiled with make makewhatis) and the man parser. This release was significantly assisted by participants in OpenBSD's c2k11. Thanks!
+
+ 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 @@ -333,10 +331,10 @@ -Tlocale is always a synonym for -Tascii.
- Furthermore, multibyte-encoded documents, such as those in UTF-8, may be on-the-fly recoded as mandoc input by using the newly-added preconv utility. + Note: in the future, this feature may be integrated into mandoc.
-12-05-2011: version 1.11.2
@@ -346,38 +344,19 @@ 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. +- 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. -
- -See cvsweb for historical notes.
-Copyright © 2008–2011 Kristaps Dzonsons, - $Date: 2011/05/26 12:14:46 $ + $Date: 2011/07/12 10:04:36 $