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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 roff implementation, for
- displaying mdoc(7) pages whilst providing token support for man(7).
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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.
+
-
- What are UNIX manuals? Read manuals(7) for an introduction.
-
-
-
+
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).
-
+ this (respectively small, C, ISC-licensed, fast and regular).
+
-
- The core of mdocml are the man(3) and mdoc(3) libraries, validating compilers producing intermediate-form
- output from -man or -mdoc input. Both are simple, fast libraries operating on memory buffers, so they
- may be used for a variety of front-ends (terminal-based, CGI and so on).
-
-
-
- The primary front-end is mandoc(1), which formats manuals for
- display on the terminal. Its purpose is to deprecate usage of groff for displaying -mdoc and, to a
- limited extent, -man manuals on the terminal.
-
+
+ mdocml consists of the libmdoc, libman, and libroff validating compilers; and mandoc, which interfaces with the compiler libraries to format output for UNIX
+ terminals, XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF. It is a BSD.lv project.
+
-
- Please submit patches, bug reports and suggestions! Although a significant
- implementation exists, work remains for the backend library and especially the front-end utilities. See
- the contact information below for submissions.
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- Sources correctly build and install on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux operating systems, tested
- variously on i386, AMD64, alpha and others.
-
+
+ mdocml is architecture- and system-neutral, written in plain-old C. The most
+ current version is @VERSION@, dated @VDATE@. A full
+ ChangeLog (txt) is written with each release.
+
-
- The most current version is @VERSION@, dated
- @VDATE@.
-
+
+ Current
+
-
- Snapshot source
-
+
-
- CVS sources are checkedout and snapshotted with version updates. These may be found in the /snapshots/ directory. A full ChangeLog is
- written with each new snapshot.
-
+
+ Downstream
+
-
- % cd /tmp
- % ftp -V -o-
- http://mdocml.bsd.lv/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz | tar -zvxf -
- % cd mdocml
- % make all
- # make install
-
+
-
- Snapshot port/pkgsrc
-
+
+ Historical
+
-
- The source snapshot is automatically converted into OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD ports at /ports-openbsd/, /ports-netbsd/ and /ports-freebsd/, respectively. Please read the OpenBSD Ports FAQ, the NetBSD pkgsrc guide or the FreeBSD ports
- guide, first.
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-
- CONTACT
-
-
-
- Please contact Kristaps, kris...@kth.se, with questions, bug reports, patches, and so
- on.
-
-
-
- If you'd like to submit patches, please contact us beforehand in case larger changes are pending but not
- checked in. If making a bug report, please make sure it's repeatable on the most current snapshot.
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