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--- mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2011/07/23 09:47:25 1.129
+++ mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2011/10/02 18:37:25 1.142
@@ -7,8 +7,19 @@
- mdocml – mdoc macro compiler
+ mdocml – mdoc macro compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)
+
+ Sources: current,
+ cvsweb
+ (archives)
+ |
+ Binaries: windows 32-bit, windows 64-bit, mac os x
+ (archives)
+
@@ -28,57 +39,42 @@
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;
+ and mandocdb, 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 mandocdb 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 mandocdb utility is not yet linked to the build. You must run make
- mandocdb to build it (it does not install).
+ 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.
+
- The most current version of mdocml is @VERSION@, dated @VDATE@.
+ 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.
- Current
-
-
-
Downstream
+
+ 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
+ official
.
+ Please contact us if you plan on maintaining a downstream version!
+
-
- Historical
-
-
- These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot.
+ These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current release.
+ They are the authoritative documentation for the mdocml system.
- 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.
@@ -282,7 +254,7 @@
|
bug-reports, general questions, and announcements
- (archive)
+ (archive)
|
@@ -292,7 +264,7 @@
|
patches and system discussions
- (archive)
+ (archive)
|
@@ -302,7 +274,7 @@
|
source commit messages
- (archive)
+ (archive)
|
@@ -311,52 +283,58 @@
News
- xx-07-2011: version 1.11.5
+ xx-xx-2011: version 1.11.8
- Significant eqn improvements. mdocml can now parse arbitrary equations
- (although few GNU troff extensions are accepted, nor is mixing low-level roff with eqn). See the eqn manual for details. For the time being, equations are rendered as simple in-line text.
+ This version features a new, work-in-progress output mode: -Tman. This mode allows a system maintainer to
+ distribute man media for older systems that may not natively support mdoc, such as old Solaris systems.
-
- 12-07-2011: version 1.11.4
+
+ The mdoc and man manuals have been made considerably more readable by
+ adding MACRO OVERVIEW sections, by moving the gory details of the LANGUAGE SYNTAX to the roff manual, and by moving the very technical MACRO SYNTAX sections down to the bottom of
+ the page.
- Bug-fixes and clean-ups across all systems, especially in mandocdb makewhatis (note: still not
- connected to the general build and must be compiled with make mandocdb make makewhatis
- 26-05-2011: version 1.11.3
+ 02-09-2011: version 1.11.7
- 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.
+ Added demandoc utility for stripping away macros and escapes. This replaces the
+ historical deroff utility. Also improved the mdoc and man manuals.
+
+ 16-08-2011: version 1.11.6
+
- 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.
+ Handling of tr macro in roff implemented. This makes Perl documentation much more
+ readable. Hyphenation is also now enabled in man format documents. Many other general
+ improvements have been implemented. Furthermore, a 64-bit Windows binary is now available at mdocml-win64.zip and a Mac OS X universal binary is available at mdocml-macosx.zip.
- 12-05-2011: version 1.11.2
+ 24-07-2011: version 1.11.5
- Corrected some installation issues in version 1.11.1.
- Further migration to libmandoc.
- Initial public release (this utility is very much under development) of mandocdbmakewhatis,
- initially named mandoc-db.
- This utility produces keyword databases of manual content
- mandoc-cgi,
- mandoc-tools,
- which features semantic querying of manual content.
+ Significant eqn improvements. mdocml can now parse arbitrary eqn input
+ (although few GNU extensions are accepted, nor is mixing low-level roff with eqn). See the eqn
+ manual for details. For the time being, equations are rendered as simple in-line text. The equation parser satisfies
+ the language specified in the Second
+ Edition User's Guide.
+ This is also the first release featuring a distributed Windows binary, available at /binaries/mdocml-win32.zip.
+
+
See cvsweb for
historical notes.
@@ -364,7 +342,7 @@
Copyright © 2008–2011
Kristaps Dzonsons,
- $Date: 2011/07/23 09:47:25 $
+ $Date: 2011/10/02 18:37:25 $