- 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 + 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).
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ 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. - It also includes preconv, for recoding multibyte manuals; - demandoc, for emitting only text parts of manuals; - mandocdb, for indexing manuals; and - apropos, whatis, and - man.cgi for semantic search of manual content. + It also includes preconv for recoding multibyte manuals, + demandoc for emitting only text parts of manuals, + mandocdb for indexing manuals, + apropos (includes whatis mode) for indexed manual search, and + man.cgi for indexed manual search online. It is a BSD.lv project.@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@
mdocml is in ISO C99 and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll need sqlite3 to build apropos, whatis, man.cgi, and mandocdb.
+ HREF="http://www.sqlite.org">sqlite3 to build apropos (links to whatis),
+ man.cgi, and mandocdb.
To build and install into /usr/local/, just run make install.
Be careful: the preconv, apropos, and whatis binary names are usually taken by existing utilities.
- 23-03-2011: version 1.12.1 + xx-xx-2013: version 1.13.0
+ The mandocdb tools (mandocdb, apropos (absorbing whatis), and man.cgi) have been re-written to + use sqlite3 as a database. +
++ 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.
+
+ See NEWS for historical notes. +
++ 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. @@ -316,7 +329,7 @@
The man.cgi script is also now available for wider testing. It interfaces with mandocdb manuals cached by catman. HTML output is generated
+ HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb manuals cached by catman. HTML output is generated
on-the-fly by libmandoc or internal methods to convert pre-formatted pages.
@@ -336,7 +349,8 @@ Copyright © 2008–2011 Kristaps Dzonsons, - $Date: 2012/06/09 11:30:08 $ + © 2013 Ingo Schwarze, + $Date: 2013/10/06 17:34:30 $