=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/Attic/index.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.140 retrieving revision 1.147 diff -u -p -r1.140 -r1.147 --- mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2011/09/02 14:00:09 1.140 +++ mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2011/10/08 13:01:44 1.147 @@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ 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. + mandocdb, for indexing manuals; and + apropos, for semantic search of manual content (both mandocdb and apropos are + still experimental). It is a BSD.lv project.

@@ -51,11 +53,12 @@ Sources

- 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 plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll + need libdb to build apropos and mandocdb (this is installed by default on BSD UNIX + systems — see the Makefile if you're running Linux). To build and install into /usr/local/, just + run make install. Be careful: the preconv and apropos binary names are usually taken by + existing utilities.

Binaries @@ -122,13 +125,13 @@ - mandoc(1) + apropos(1) - format and display UNIX manuals - (text | - xhtml | - pdf | - ps) + search the manual page database + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + ps) @@ -142,6 +145,16 @@ + mandoc(1) + + format and display UNIX manuals + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + ps) + + + preconv(1) recode multibyte UNIX manuals @@ -283,6 +296,35 @@ News

+ 08-10-2011: version 1.12.0 +

+

+ 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. +

+

+ While adding features, an apropos utility has been merged from the mandoc-tools sandbox. + This interfaces with mandocdb for semantic search of manual content. apropos is different from the traditional apropos primarily in allowing keyword search + (such as for functions, utilities, etc.) and regular expressions. + Note that the calling syntax for apropos is likely to change as it settles down. +

+

+ In documentation news, 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. +

+

+ 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

@@ -299,21 +341,7 @@ HREF="/binaries/mdocml-win64.zip">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. -

-

See cvsweb for historical notes.

@@ -321,7 +349,7 @@ Copyright © 2008–2011 Kristaps Dzonsons, - $Date: 2011/09/02 14:00:09 $ + $Date: 2011/10/08 13:01:44 $