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                         <B>mdocml</B> &#8211; UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)                          <B>mdocml</B> &#8211; UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)
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                         <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <I><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></I>, the roff macro                          <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <I><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></I>, the roff macro
                         package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <I><A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></I>, the predominant historical package for                          package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <I><A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></I>, the predominant historical package for
                         UNIX manuals.  The mission of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is to deprecate <A                          UNIX manuals.
                         HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, the GNU troff implementation, for displaying <I>mdoc</I>                          It is small, ISO C, <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, and quite fast.
                         pages whilst providing token support for <I>man</I>.  
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                         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, <A  
                         CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, fast and regular).  
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                         <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler and <A                          <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler and <A
                         HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals (with                          HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals (with
                         support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.                          support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.
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                         <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, for indexing manuals; and                          <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, for indexing manuals; and
                         <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A>, <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A>, and                          <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A>, <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A>, and
                         <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A> (via <A HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>) for semantic search of manual content.                          <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A> (via <A HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>) for semantic search of manual content.
                         It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.                  </P>
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                           <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> has predominantly been developed on OpenBSD
                           and is both an <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</A>
                           and a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.
                           We strive to support all interested free operating systems, in particular
                           <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</A>,
                           <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/">DragonFly</A>,
                           <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</A>,
                           <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.minix3.org/">Minix 3</A>,
                           and <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU</A>/Linux,
                           as well as all systems running the <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.pkgsrc.org/">pkgsrc</A> portable package build system.
                           All of these projects have helped to make <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> better, by providing feedback and advice,
                           bug reports, and patches.
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                         <I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.                          <I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.
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