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| <B>mdocml</B> – mdoc macro compiler |
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| <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <Q>-mdoc</Q>, the roff macro package |
<A NAME="description">Description</A> |
| of choice for BSD manual pages, and <Q>-man</Q>, the predominant historical package for UNIX |
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| manuals. The mission of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is to deprecate <A |
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| HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, the GNU roff implementation, for |
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| Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and all of which is GPL. It runs |
<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <I><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></I>, the roff macro |
| slowly, produces uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system. mdocml strives to fix |
package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <I><A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></I>, the predominant historical package for |
| this (respectively small, C, ISC-licensed, fast and regular). |
UNIX manuals. The mission of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is to deprecate <A |
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HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, the GNU troff implementation, for displaying <I>mdoc</I> |
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pages whilst providing token support for <I>man</I>. |
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| The core of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is composed of the <i>libmdoc</i> and <i>libman</i> |
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 |
| validating compiler libraries. Both are simple, fast libraries operating on memory buffers, so they may |
uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system. mdocml strives to fix this (respectively small, C, <A |
| be used for a variety of front-ends (terminal-based, CGI and so on). The primary front-end is <i> |
CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, fast and regular). |
| mandoc</i>, which formats manuals for display on the terminal. |
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| The <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> utility is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv |
<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler and <A |
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HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals, XHTML, |
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HTML, PostScript, and PDF. It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project. |
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| Sources correctly build and install on DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and GNU/Linux operating |
<I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>. |
| systems, tested variously on i386, AMD64, alpha, and others. The most current version is <SPAN |
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| CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN>, dated <SPAN class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>. A full <A |
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<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any UNIX system, although <A |
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HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A> requires <A CLASS="external" |
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installed by default on all BSD operating systems). The most current version is <SPAN CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN>, |
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dated <SPAN class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>. If your system doesn't come with <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> (see |
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<Q>Downstream</Q>), run <CODE>make</CODE> to compile and <CODE>make install</CODE> to install into <I>/usr/local</I>. |
| <A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz</A> |
Note that <A HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A> is not yet linked to the build. You must run <CODE>make |
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| <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> |
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| Downstream |
Current |
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| <A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc" |
<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz</A> |
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(<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.md5">md5</A>) |
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| <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/" |
<A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> |
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| Historical |
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<A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc" |
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<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/" |
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| DOCUMENTATION |
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| These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot. |
Historical |
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| <TD><A HREF="mdoc.3.html">mdoc(3)</A> (<A HREF="mdoc.3.txt">text</A>)</TD> |
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| For all issues related to <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN>, contact Kristaps Dzonsons, kris<A |
<A NAME="documentation">Documentation</A> |
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These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot. |
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| <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">13-05-2010</SPAN></TD> |
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| Fixed handling of <Q>\*(Ba</Q> escape. Backed out <SPAN |
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| <Q>end-of-sentence, end-of-line</Q> rule. This is a stable roll-back point |
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| Version: <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.25</SPAN>. |
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| <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">09-05-2010</SPAN></TD> |
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| Rolled back break-at-hyphen. <SPAN CLASS="flag">-DUGLY</SPAN> is now the |
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| lists. Lastly, <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is the focus of two <A |
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| Version: <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.24</SPAN>. |
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Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. (these require subscription). Please check the |
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<A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/TODO?cvsroot=mdocml">TODO</A> for known issues |
| <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> has been linked to the <A CLASS="external" |
before posting. Beyond that, contact Kristaps at <A |
| HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html#20100403">OpenBSD build</a>. This |
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| version incorporates many small changes, mostly from patches by OpenBSD, |
this e-mail address">kris...</A>@bsd.lv. |
| allowing crufty manuals to slip by with warnings instead of erroring-out. Some |
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| subtle semantic issues, such as punctuation scope, have also been fixed. |
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| Lastly, some issues with <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Thtml</SPAN> have been fixed, which |
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| prompted an update to the <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">online</A> <A |
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| HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">manual</A> <A HREF="man.7.html">pages</A> style |
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| layout. Version: <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.23</SPAN>. |
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| <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">31-03-2010</SPAN></TD> |
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| Version <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.22</SPAN>: adjusted merge of the significant work |
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| by Ingo Schwarze in getting <Q>Xo</Q> blocks (block full implicit, e.g., |
bug-reports, general questions, and announcements |
| <Q>It</Q> for non-columnar lists) to work properly. This isn't enabled by |
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| default: you must specify <SPAN CLASS="flag">-DUGLY</SPAN> as a compiler flag |
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| (see the Makefile for details). |
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| <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">30-03-2010</SPAN></TD> |
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| Version <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.20</SPAN>: more efforts to get roff instructions |
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| in -man documents under control. Note that roff instructions embedded in |
patches and system discussions |
| line-scoped, next-line macros (e.g. <Q>B</Q>) are not supported. Leading |
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| punctuation for -mdoc macros, such as <Q>Fl ( ( a</Q>, are now correctly |
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| handled. |
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| <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">27-03-2010</SPAN></TD> |
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| Version <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.18</SPAN>: many fixes (largely pertaining to |
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| scope) and improvements (e.g., handling of apostrophe-control macros, which |
source commit messages |
| fixes the strange <Q>BR</Q> seen in some macro output) to handling roff |
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| instructions in -man documents. |
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| <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">25-03-2010</SPAN></TD> |
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| Version <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.17</SPAN> highlights: accept <A |
<A NAME="news">News</A> |
| HREF="http://perldoc.perl.org/" CLASS="external">perlpod</A> standard preamble. |
</H1> |
| Also accept (and discard) <Q>de</Q>, <Q>dei</Q>, <Q>am</Q>, <Q>ami</Q>, and |
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| <Q>ig</Q> roff macro blocks. |
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12-05-2011: version 1.11.2 |
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| <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">22-03-2010</SPAN></TD> |
Corrected some installation issues in version 1.11.1. |
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Further migration to <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A>. |
| Version <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.16</SPAN> highlights: inspired by patches and bug |
Initial public release (this utility is very much under development) of <A HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A>, |
| reports by Ingo Schwarze, allowed <SPAN CLASS="flag">-man</SPAN> to accept |
initially named mandoc-db. |
| non-printing elements to be nested within next-line scopes, such as <Q>br</Q> |
This utility produces keyword databases of manual content |
| within <Q>B</Q> or <Q>TH</Q>, which is valid roff. Longsoon architecture also |
<A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/mandoc-cgi/index.html">mandoc-cgi</A>, which features semantic querying of manual content. |
| noted and Makefile cleaned up. |
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04-04-2011: version 1.11.1 |
| <TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">18-02-2010</SPAN></TD> |
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| Moved to our new <A HREF="http://bsd.lv" CLASS="external">BSD.lv</A> home. |
The earlier <I>libroff</I>, <I>libmdoc</I>, and <I>libman</I> soup have been merged into |
| Version <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.15</SPAN> highlights: XHTML is now an acceptable |
a single library, <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A>, which manages all aspects of |
| output mode for <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A>; <Q>Xr</Q> made more |
parsing real manuals (from line-handling to <A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl</A> parsing). |
| compatible with groff; <Q>Vt</Q> fixed when invoked in SYNOPSIS; <Q>\\</Q> |
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| escape removed; end-of-line white-space detected for all lines; subtle bug |
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| fixed in list display for some modes; compatibility layer checked in for |
Beyond this structural change, initial <A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn</A> functionality is in |
| compilation in diverse UNIX systems; and column lengths handled correctly. |
place. For the time being, this is limited to the recognition of equation blocks; |
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future version of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> will expand upon this framework. |
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As usual, many general fixes and improvements have also occurred. In particular, a great |
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deal of redundancy and superfluous code has been removed with the merging of the backend |
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libraries. |
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| Copyright © 2008–2010 Kristaps Dzonsons, $Date$ |
See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for |
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historical notes. |
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<A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>, |
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