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- DESCRIPTION + DESCRIPTION

- 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 pages whilst providing token support for -man. + 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.

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 is composed of the libmdoc and libman - validating compiler libraries. 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, which formats manuals for display 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. mdocml is a BSD.lv project.

- The mdocml utility is a BSD.lv - Project member. + Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary, + mandoc.

- SOURCES + SOURCES

- Sources correctly build and install on DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and GNU/Linux operating - systems, tested variously on i386, AMD64, alpha, and others. The most current version is @VERSION@, dated @VDATE@. A full ChangeLog (txt) is written with each release. + 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.

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Online source - cvsweb + cvsweb
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- DOCUMENTATION + DOCUMENTATION

- These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot. + These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot.

- + - - + + - - + + - - + + - - + + - - + + - - + + - - + + + + + +
mandoc(1) (text)format and display UNIX manualsman(3) + man macro compiler library + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + +
mandoc_char(7) (text)mandoc special charactersman(7) + man language reference + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + +
mdoc(7) (text)mdoc language referencemandoc(1) + format and display UNIX manuals + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + +
man(7) (text)man language referencemandoc_char(7) + mandoc special characters + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + +
manuals(7) (text)a guide to writing UNIX manualsmdoc(3) + mdoc macro compiler library + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + +
mdoc(3) (text)mdoc macro compiler librarymdoc(7) + mdoc language reference + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + +
man(3) (text)man macro compiler libraryroff(3) + roff macro compiler library + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + +
roff(7) + roff-mandoc language reference + + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + postscript) + +
+ +

+ See Writing UNIX Manual Pages for a general + introduction to manpages and mdoc. +

- CONTACT + CONTACT

- For all issues related to mdocml, contact Kristaps Dzonsons, kris...@bsd.lv. + Please use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. Beyond that, contact + Kristaps at kris...@bsd.lv.

- You may also subscribe to several mailing lists (these require subscription, which is moderated): + You may also subscribe to several mailing lists (these require subscription, which is + moderated).

- + - - - - -
disc...@mdocml.bsd.lv + HREF="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01KQ80PFH5n3BBNpF5Gs4sRg==&c=EV1QytpQqTHSItc2IXvZyocgYLPnG5K0JKw_gwMC9yc=">...@mdocml.bsd.lv discussions and announcements
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- NEWS -

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
09-05-2010 - Fixed handling of \*(Ba escape. Backed out -fno-ign-chars (pointless complexity). - Version: 1.9.24.
09-05-2010 - Rolled back break-at-hyphen. -DUGLY is now the - default (no feature splits!). Free-form text is not de-chunked any more: lines - are passed whole-sale into the front-end, including whitespace. Added mailing - lists. Lastly, mdocml is the focus of two Google Summer of Code - projects this year: mandoc -Tps - (NetBSD) and BSD-licensed - Text-Processing Tools (FreeBSD). - Version: 1.9.24. + + tec...@mdocml.bsd.lv
07-04-2010 - mdocml has been linked to the OpenBSD build. This - version incorporates many small changes, mostly from patches by OpenBSD, - allowing crufty manuals to slip by with warnings instead of erroring-out. Some - subtle semantic issues, such as punctuation scope, have also been fixed. - Lastly, some issues with -Thtml have been fixed, which - prompted an update to the online manual pages style - layout. Version: 1.9.23. + + patches and system discussions + (archive)
31-03-2010 - Version 1.9.22: adjusted merge of the significant work - by Ingo Schwarze in getting Xo blocks (block full implicit, e.g., - It for non-columnar lists) to work properly. This isn't enabled by - default: you must specify -DUGLY as a compiler flag - (see the Makefile for details). + + sou...@mdocml.bsd.lv
30-03-2010 - Version 1.9.20: more efforts to get roff instructions - in -man documents under control. Note that roff instructions embedded in - line-scoped, next-line macros (e.g. B) are not supported. Leading - punctuation for -mdoc macros, such as Fl ( ( a, are now correctly - handled. + + source commit messages + (archive)
27-03-2010 - Version 1.9.18: many fixes (largely pertaining to - scope) and improvements (e.g., handling of apostrophe-control macros, which - fixes the strange BR seen in some macro output) to handling roff - instructions in -man documents. -
25-03-2010 - Version 1.9.17 highlights: accept perlpod standard preamble. - Also accept (and discard) de, dei, am, ami, and - ig roff macro blocks. -
22-03-2010 - Version 1.9.16 highlights: inspired by patches and bug - reports by Ingo Schwarze, allowed -man to accept - non-printing elements to be nested within next-line scopes, such as br - within B or TH, which is valid roff. Longsoon architecture also - noted and Makefile cleaned up. -
18-02-2010 - Moved to our new BSD.lv home. - Version 1.9.15 highlights: XHTML is now an acceptable - output mode for mandoc(1); Xr made more - compatible with groff; Vt fixed when invoked in SYNOPSIS; \\ - escape removed; end-of-line white-space detected for all lines; subtle bug - fixed in list display for some modes; compatibility layer checked in for - compilation in diverse UNIX systems; and column lengths handled correctly. -
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+ NEWS +

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+ 03-01-2011: + version 1.10.9 +

+

+ Table functionality (see the roff manual) has been + merged from tbl.bsd.lv. Many back-end + fixes have also been implemented, primarily in argument handling (quoting) and man documents. +

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+ 24-12-2010: + version 1.10.8 +

+

+ Significant improvements merged from OpenBSD downstream, including +

+
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  • many new roff components,
    • +
  • in-line implementation of troff's soelim,
    • +
  • broken-block handling,
    • +
  • overhauled error classifications, and
    • +
  • cleaned up handling of error conditions.
    • +
+

+ Also overhauled the -Thtml and -Txhtml output modes. They now display readable output in arbitrary + browsers, including text-based ones like lynx. See HTML and XHTML manuals in the DOCUMENTATION section for examples. Attention: available style-sheet classes have been considerably + changed! See the example.style.css file for details. + Lastly, libmdoc and libman have been + cleaned up and reduced in size and complexity. +

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+

+ 27-09-2010: + version 1.10.6 +

+

+ Calling conventions for mandoc have changed: -W improved and -f deprecated. Non-ASCII + characters are also now uniformly discarded. Lots of documentation improvements. Many + incremental fixes accomodating for groff's more interesting productions. Lastly, pod2man preambles are + now fully accepted after some considerable roff and special + character support. +

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+ 27-07-2010: + version 1.10.5 +

+

+ Primarily a bug-fix and polish release, but including -Tpdf + support in mandoc by way of Summer of Code. + Highlights: +

+
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  • fix Sm and Bd handling
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  • fix end-of-sentence handling for embedded sentences
    • +
  • polish man documentation
    • +
  • document all mdoc macros
    • +
  • polish mandoc -Tps output
    • +
  • lots of internal clean-ups in character escapes
    • +
  • un-break literal contexts in man documents
    • +
  • improve -Thtml output for -man
    • +
  • add mandoc -Tpdf support
    • +
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+
+

+ 12-07-2010: + version 1.10.4 +

+

+ Lots of features developed during both Summer of Code and the + OpenBSD c2k10 hackathon: +

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  • minimal ds roff symbols are supported
    • +
  • Bk mdoc support
    • +
  • beautified SYNOPSIS section output
    • +
  • variable font-width and paper-size support in mandoc + -Tps output
    • +
  • acceptance of scope-block breakage in mdoc
    • +
  • clarify error message status
    • +
  • many minor bug-fixes and formatting issues resolved
    • +
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+
+

+ 19-06-2010: + version 1.10.2 +

+

+ Small release featuring text-decoration in -Tps output, a few + minor relaxations of errors, and some optimisations. +

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+ 07-06-2010: + version 1.10.1 +

+

+ This primarily focusses on the Bl and It macros described in mdoc. Multi-line column support is now fully compatible with + groff, as are implicit list entries for columns. Removed manuals.7 in favour of http://manpages.bsd.lv. The way we + handle the SYNOPSIS section (see the SYNOPSIS documentation in MANUAL STRUCTURE) has also + been considerably simplified compared to groff's method. Furthermore, the -Owidth=width output option has been added to -Tascii (see mandoc). Lastly, initial + PostScript output has been added with the -Tps option to mandoc. It's brutally simple at the moment: fixed-font, with + no font decorations. +

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+ 29-05-2010: + version 1.10.0 +

+

+ Release consisting of the results from the m2k10 hackathon and up-merge from OpenBSD. + This requires a significant note of thanks to Ingo Schwarze (OpenBSD) and Joerg + Sonnenberger (NetBSD) for their hard work, and again to Joerg for hosting m2k10. + Highlights (mostly cribbed from Ingo's m2k10 report) follow in no particular order: +

+
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  • a libroff preprocessor in front of libmdoc and libman stripping out + roff instructions;
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  • end-of-sentence (EOS) detection in free-form and macro lines;
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  • correct handling of tab-separated columnar lists in -mdoc;
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  • improved main calling routines to optionally use mmap() for better + performance;
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  • cleaned up exiting when invoked as -Tlint or over + multiple files with -fign-errors;
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  • error and warning message handling re-written to be unified for libroff, libmdoc, and libman;
    • +
  • handling of badly-nested explicit-scoped macros;
    • +
  • improved free-form text parsing in libman and libmdoc;
    • +
  • significant GNU troff compatibility improvements in -Tascii, largely in terms of spacing;
    • +
  • a regression framework for making sure the many fragilities of GNU troff + aren't trampled in subsequent work;
    • +
  • support for -Tascii breaking at hyphens + encountered in free-form text;
    • +
  • and many more minor fixes and improvements (no really, consult cvsweb and see + for yourself!).
    • +
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+

+ See cvsweb for + historical notes. +

+
- Copyright © 2008–2010 Kristaps Dzonsons, $Date: 2010/05/09 21:19:42 $ + Copyright © 2008–2010 Kristaps Dzonsons, $Date: 2011/01/04 10:29:41 $