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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                          The tool set features <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>,
                         uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system.  mdocml strives to fix this (respectively small, C, <A                          based on the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler,
                         CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, fast and regular).                          to format output for UNIX terminals (with
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                         <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  
                         support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.                          support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.
                         It also includes <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A>, for recoding multibyte manuals;                          It also includes <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A>, for recoding multibyte manuals;
                         <A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc</A>, for emitting only text parts of manuals;                          <A HREF="demandoc.1.html">demandoc</A>, for emitting only text parts of manuals;
                         <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.  
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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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                         <A NAME="sources">Sources</A>                          <A NAME="sources">Sources</A>
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                         <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll                          <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> should build and run on any modern system with
                         need <A HREF="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html">libdb</A> to build <A                          <A HREF="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html">libdb</A>
                         HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A>, <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A>, <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A>, <A                          (this is installed by default on BSD UNIX systems &mdash; see the <I>Makefile</I> if you're running Linux).
                         HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>, and <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A> (this is installed by default on BSD UNIX                          To build and install into <I>/usr/local/</I>, just run <CODE>make install</CODE>.
                         systems &mdash; see the <I>Makefile</I> if you're running Linux).  To build and install into <I>/usr/local/</I>, just                          Be careful: the <B>preconv</B>, <B>apropos</B>, and <B>whatis</B> installed binary names
                         run <CODE>make install</CODE>.  Be careful: the <B>preconv</B>, <B>apropos</B>, and <B>whatis</B> binary names are                          may be taken by existing utilities.
                         usually taken by existing utilities.  
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                         Several systems come bundled with <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> utilities.                          Several systems come bundled with <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> utilities.
                         If your system does not appear below, the maintainers have not contacted me and it should not be considered                          If your system does not appear below, the maintainers have not contacted me and it should not be considered
                         <Q>official</Q>.                          <Q>official</Q>, so please <A HREF="#contact">contact us</A> if you plan on maintaining a downstream version!
                         Please <A HREF="#contact">contact us</A> if you plan on maintaining a downstream version!  
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