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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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| The core of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is composed of the <A HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A>, <A |
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 |
| HREF="man.3.html">libman</A>, and <A HREF="roff.3.html">libroff</A> validating compiler libraries. All |
uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system. mdocml strives to fix this (respectively small, C, <A |
| are simple, fast libraries operating on memory buffers, so they may be used for a variety of front-ends |
CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, fast and regular). |
| (terminal-based, CGI and so on). The front-end is <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which formats |
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| The <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> suite 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, GNU/Linux, and many |
<I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>. |
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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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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 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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| <SPAN CLASS="date">29-05-2010</SPAN>: |
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| version 1.10.0 |
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| Release consisting of the results from the m2k10 hackathon and up-merge from OpenBSD. |
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| This requires a significant note of thanks to Ingo Schwarze (OpenBSD) and Joerg |
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| Sonnenberger (NetBSD) for their hard work, and again to Joerg for hosting m2k10. |
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| Highlights (mostly cribbed from Ingo's m2k10 report) follow in no particular order: |
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| <LI>a <A HREF="roff.3.html">libroff</A> preprocessor in front of <A |
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| <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> instructions;</LI> |
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| <LI>end-of-sentence (EOS) detection in free-form and macro lines;</LI> |
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| <LI>correct handling of tab-separated columnar lists in <SPAN |
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| CLASS="flag">-mdoc</SPAN>;</LI> |
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| <LI>improved main calling routines to optionally use mmap() for better |
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| performance;</LI> |
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| <LI>cleaned up exiting when invoked as <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tlint</SPAN> or over |
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| multiple files with <SPAN CLASS="flag">-fign-errors</SPAN>;</LI> |
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| <LI>error and warning message handling re-written to be unified for <A |
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| HREF="roff.3.html">libroff</A>, <A HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A>, and <A |
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| HREF="man.3.html">libman</A>;</LI> |
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| <LI>handling of badly-nested explicit-scoped macros;</LI> |
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| <LI>improved free-form text parsing in <A HREF="man.3.html">libman</A> and <A |
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| HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A>;</LI> |
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| <LI>significant GNU troff compatibility improvements in <SPAN |
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| CLASS="flag">-Tascii</SPAN>, largely in terms of spacing;</LI> |
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| <LI>a regression framework for making sure the many fragilities of GNU troff |
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| aren't trampled in subsequent work;</LI> |
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| <LI>support for <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tascii</SPAN> breaking at hyphens |
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| encountered in free-form text;</LI> |
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| <LI>and many more minor fixes and improvements (no really, consult <A |
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| HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> and see |
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| for yourself!).</LI> |
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| <DIV CLASS="news"> |
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| <SPAN CLASS="date">13-05-2010</SPAN>: |
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| version 1.9.25 |
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| </P> |
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| <P> |
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| Fixed handling of <Q>\*(Ba</Q> escape. Backed out <SPAN |
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| CLASS="flag">-fno-ign-chars</SPAN> (pointless complexity). Fixed erroneous |
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| breaking of literal lines. Fixed SYNOPSIS breaking lines before non-initial |
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| macros. Changed default section ordering. Most importantly, the framework for |
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| end-of-sentence double-spacing is in place, now implemented for the |
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| <Q>end-of-sentence, end-of-line</Q> rule. This is a stable roll-back point |
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| before the mandoc hackathon in Rostock! |
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| </P> |
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| </DIV> |
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| <DIV CLASS="news"> |
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| <P> |
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| <SPAN CLASS="date">09-05-2010</SPAN>: |
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| version 1.9.24 |
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| </P> |
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| <P> |
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| Rolled back break-at-hyphen. <SPAN CLASS="flag">-DUGLY</SPAN> is now the |
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| default (no feature splits!). Free-form text is not de-chunked any more: lines |
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| are passed whole-sale into the front-end, including whitespace. Added mailing |
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| lists. Lastly, <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is the focus of two <A |
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| CLASS="external" HREF="http://socghop.appspot.com/">Google Summer of Code</A> |
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| projects this year: <Q><A CLASS="external" |
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| HREF="http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/mandoc_ps/">mandoc -Tps</A></Q> |
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| (NetBSD) and <Q><A CLASS="external" |
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| HREF="http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2010Projects">BSD-licensed |
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| Text-Processing Tools</A></Q> (FreeBSD). |
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| </P> |
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Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. (these require subscription). Please check the |
| <SPAN CLASS="date">07-04-2010</SPAN>: |
<A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/TODO?cvsroot=mdocml">TODO</A> for known issues |
| version 1.9.23 |
before posting. Beyond that, contact Kristaps at <A |
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this e-mail address">kris...</A>@bsd.lv. |
| <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> has been linked to the <A CLASS="external" |
</P> |
| 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, |
<TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Mailing Lists"> |
| 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 |
<TBODY> |
| prompted an update to the <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">online</A> <A |
<TR> |
| HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">manual</A> <A HREF="man.7.html">pages</A> style |
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| layout. |
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| <P> |
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| See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for |
bug-reports, general questions, and announcements |
| historical notes. |
<SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/discuss/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL> |
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19-05-2011: version 1.11.3 |
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</P> |
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Introduce locale-encoding of output with the <B>-Tlocale</B> output option and Unicode escaped-character input. |
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See <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> and <A HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">mandoc_char</A>, respectively, for details. |
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This allows for non-ASCII characters (e.g., <I>\[u5000]</I>) to be rendered in the locale's encoding, if said |
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environment supports wide-character encoding (if it does not, <B>-Tascii</B> is used instead). |
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Locale support can be turned off at compile time by removing <I>-DUSE_WCHAR</I> in the <I>Makefile</I>, in which case |
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<B>-Tlocale</B> is always a synonym for <B>-Tascii</B>. |
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</P> |
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<P> |
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Furthermore, multibyte-encoded documents, such as those in UTF-8, may be on-the-fly recoded as <A |
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HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> input by using the newly-added <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A> utility. |
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</P> |
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<P CLASS="news"> |
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12-05-2011: version 1.11.2 |
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</P> |
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<P> |
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Corrected some installation issues in version 1.11.1. |
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Further migration to <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A>. |
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Initial public release (this utility is very much under development) of <A HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A>, |
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initially named mandoc-db. |
| |
This utility produces keyword databases of manual content |
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<A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/mandoc-cgi/index.html">mandoc-cgi</A>, which features semantic querying of manual content. |
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</P> |
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<P CLASS="news"> |
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04-04-2011: version 1.11.1 |
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</P> |
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<P> |
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The earlier <I>libroff</I>, <I>libmdoc</I>, and <I>libman</I> soup have been merged into |
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a single library, <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A>, which manages all aspects of |
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parsing real manuals (from line-handling to <A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl</A> parsing). |
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</P> |
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<P> |
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Beyond this structural change, initial <A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn</A> functionality is in |
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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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</P> |
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<P> |
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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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</P> |
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<P> |
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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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