mdocml – UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)
+
mdocml – UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)
@@ -20,16 +21,10 @@
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 all of which is GPL. 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. +
+
Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary, mandoc
.
- 23-03-2011: version 1.12.1 + 05-10-2013: version 1.12.2
+ The mdoc(7) to man(7) converter,
+ to be called as mandoc -Tman, is now fully functional.
+
+ The mandoc(1) utility now supports the -Ios (default operating system)
+ input option, and the -Tutf8 output mode now actually works.
+
+ The mandocdb(8) utility no longer truncates existing databases when starting to build new ones, + but only replaces them when the build actually succeeds. +
++ The man(7) parser now supports the PD macro (paragraph distance), + and (for GNU man-ext compatibility only) EX (example block) and EE (example end). + Plus several bugfixes regarding indentation, line breaks, and vertical spacing, + and regarding RS following TP. +
++ The roff(7) parser now supports the \f(BI (bold+italic) font escape, + the \z (zero cursor advance) escape and the cc (change control character) + and it (input line trap) requests. + Plus bugfixes regarding the \t (tab) escape, nested escape sequences, and conditional requests. +
++ In mdoc(7), several bugs were fixed related to UTF-8 output of quoting enclosures, + delimiter handling, list indentation and horizontal and vertical spacing, + formatting of the Lk, %U, and %C macros, + plus some bugfixes related to the handling of syntax errors like badly nested font blocks, + stray Ta macros outside column lists, unterminated It Xo blocks, + and non-text children of Nm blocks. +
++ In tbl(7), the width of horizontal spans and the vertical spacing around tables was corrected, + and in man(7) files, a crash was fixed that was triggered by some particular unclosed T{ macros. +
+
+ For mandoc developers, we now provide a tbl(3) library manual and gmdiff,
+ a very small, very simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output comparison tool.
+
+ 23-03-2012: version 1.12.1 +
+Significant work on apropos and mandocdb. These tools are now much more robust. A whatis implementation is now handled as an apropos mode. @@ -286,15 +371,42 @@
Lastly, I'm no longer providing binaries, as nobody has asked for them.
-- See cvsweb for - historical notes. -
+Copyright © 2008–2011 Kristaps Dzonsons, - $Date: 2013/09/18 16:20:11 $ + © 2013 Ingo Schwarze, + $Date: 2013/11/07 21:57:14 $