mdocml – UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)
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mdocml – UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)
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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 - UNIX manuals. The mission of mdocml is to deprecate groff, the GNU troff implementation, for displaying mdoc - pages whilst providing token support for man. + UNIX manuals. + It is small, ISO C, ISC-licensed, and quite fast.
- Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and GPL version 3. 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 (with support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF. @@ -38,9 +33,22 @@ mandocdb, for indexing manuals; and apropos, whatis, and man.cgi (via catman) for semantic search of manual content. - It is a BSD.lv project.
+ mdocml has predominantly been developed on OpenBSD + and is both an OpenBSD + and a BSD.lv project. + We strive to support all interested free operating systems, in particular + NetBSD, + DragonFly, + FreeBSD, + Minix 3, + and GNU/Linux, + as well as all systems running the pkgsrc portable package build system. + All of these projects have helped to make mdocml better, by providing feedback and advice, + bug reports, and patches. +
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Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary, mandoc
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