Description
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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 (with
support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.
- It also includes preconv, for recoding multibyte manuals;
- demandoc, for emitting only text parts of manuals;
- and mandocdb, for indexing manuals.
+ It also includes preconv for recoding multibyte manuals,
+ demandoc for emitting only text parts of manuals,
+ mandocdb for indexing manuals,
+ apropos (includes whatis mode) for indexed manual search, and
+ man.cgi for indexed manual search online.
It is a BSD.lv project.
- 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.
+ mdocml is in ISO C99 and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll need sqlite3 to build apropos (links to whatis),
+ man.cgi, and mandocdb.
+ To build and install into /usr/local/, just run make install.
+ Be careful: the preconv, apropos, and whatis binary names are usually taken by existing utilities.
- 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.
-
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TODO for known issues
before posting. All lists are subscription-only: send a blank e-mail to the listed address to subscribe. Beyond that,
contact Kristaps at kris...@bsd.lv.
+ this e-mail address">kris...@bsd.lv. Archives are available at Gmane.
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bug-reports, general questions, and announcements
- (archive)
- xx-xx-2011: version 1.11.8
+ xx-xx-2012: version 1.12.4
- This version features a new, work-in-progress mandoc 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.
- The -Ofragment option was added to mandoc's -Thtml and -Txhtml modes.
+ Ingo, can you summarise your changes here?
- 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.
+ The mandocdb tools (mandocdb, apropos (absorbing whatis), and man.cgi) have been re-written to
+ use sqlite3 as a database.
- Furthermore, for tbl, the -Tascii mode horizontal spacing of tables was rewritten
- completely. It is now compatible with groff, both
- with and without frames and rulers. Nesting of indented blocks is now supported in man, and
- several bugs were fixed regarding indentation and alignment. The page headers in mdoc are now
- nicer for very long titles.
-
-
- 02-09-2011: version 1.11.7
-
-
- 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
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- 24-07-2011: version 1.11.5
-
-
- 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.
-