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Revision 1.114, Wed May 4 08:21:17 2011 UTC (12 years, 10 months ago) by kristaps
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Add configurations (`Cd') to mandoc-db mining.
Also put some notes into index.sgml to the effect that mandoc-db exists,
but is not linked to the build.

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		<TITLE>mdocml | mdoc macro compiler</TITLE>
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			<B>mdocml</B> &#8211; mdoc macro compiler
		</P>

		<H1>
			<A NAME="description">DESCRIPTION</A>
		</H1>

		<P>
			<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <I><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></I>, the roff macro
			package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <I><A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></I>, the predominant historical package for
			UNIX manuals.  The mission of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is to deprecate <A
			HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, the GNU troff implementation, for displaying <I>mdoc</I>
			pages whilst providing token support for <I>man</I>.
		</P>

		<P>
			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, <A
			CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, fast and regular).
		</P>

		<P>
			<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler and <A
			HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals, XHTML,
			HTML, PostScript, and PDF.  It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.  
		</P>

		<P>
			<I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.
		</P>

		<H1>
			<A NAME="sources">SOURCES</A>
		</H1>

		<P>
			<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any UNIX system.  The most current
			version is <SPAN CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN>, dated <SPAN class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>.  If your system doesn't come
			with <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> (see <Q>Downstream</Q>), run <CODE>make</CODE> to compile and <CODE>make
			install</CODE> to install into <I>/usr/local</I>.
		</P>
		<P>
			Note that <A HREF="mandoc-db.1.html">mandoc-db</A> is not yet linked to the build.  You must run <CODE>make
			mandoc-db</CODE> to build it.
		</P>

		<H2>
			Current
		</H2>

		<TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Current Sources">
			<COL WIDTH="175">
			<COL>
			<TBODY>
				<TR>
					<TD>Source archive</TD>
					<TD>
					<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz</A> 
					(<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.md5">md5</A>)
					</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR>
					<TD>Online source</TD>
					<TD>
					<A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A>
					</TD>
				</TR>
			</TBODY>
		</TABLE>

		<H2>
			Downstream
		</H2>

		<TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Downstream Sources">
			<COL WIDTH="175">
			<COL>
			<TBODY>
				<TR>
					<TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
					<TD>
					<A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc"
						CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A>
					</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR>
					<TD>FreeBSD</TD>
					<TD>
					<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/" 
						CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A>
					</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR>
					<TD>NetBSD</TD>
					<TD>
					<A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/"
						CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A>
					</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR>
					<TD>OpenBSD</TD>
					<TD>
					<A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/"
						CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A> 
					</TD>
				</TR>
			</TBODY>
		</TABLE>

		<H2>
			Historical
		</H2>

		<TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Archived Sources">
			<COL WIDTH="175">
			<COL>
			<TBODY>
				<TR>
					<TD>Source archive</TD>
					<TD>
					<A HREF="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</A> 
					</TD>
				</TR>
			</TBODY>
		</TABLE>

		<H1>
			<A NAME="documentation">DOCUMENTATION</A>
		</H1>

		<P>
			These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot.
		</P>

		<TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Documentation">
			<COL WIDTH="175">
			<COL>
			<TBODY>
				<TR>
					<TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A></TD>
					<TD VALIGN="top">
						format and display UNIX manuals
						<SMALL>
							(<A HREF="mandoc.1.txt">text</A> | 
							<A HREF="mandoc.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
							<A HREF="mandoc.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
							<A HREF="mandoc.1.ps">postscript</A>)
						</SMALL>
					</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR>
					<TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc-db(1)</A></TD>
					<TD VALIGN="top">
						index UNIX manuals
						<SMALL>
							(<A HREF="mandoc-db.1.txt">text</A> | 
							<A HREF="mandoc-db.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
							<A HREF="mandoc-db.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
							<A HREF="mandoc-db.1.ps">postscript</A>)
						</SMALL>
					</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR>
					<TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.3.html">mandoc(3)</A></TD>
					<TD VALIGN="top">
						mandoc macro compiler library
						<SMALL>
							(<A HREF="mandoc.3.txt">text</A> | 
							<A HREF="mandoc.3.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
							<A HREF="mandoc.3.pdf">pdf</A> |
							<A HREF="mandoc.3.ps">postscript</A>)
						</SMALL>
					</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR>
					<TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A></TD>
					<TD VALIGN="top">
						man language reference
						<SMALL>
							(<A HREF="man.7.txt">text</A> | 
							<A HREF="man.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
							<A HREF="man.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
							<A HREF="man.7.ps">postscript</A>)
						</SMALL>
					</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR>
					<TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn(7)</A></TD>
					<TD VALIGN="top">
						eqn-mandoc language reference
						<SMALL>
							(<A HREF="eqn.7.txt">text</A> | 
							<A HREF="eqn.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
							<A HREF="eqn.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
							<A HREF="eqn.7.ps">postscript</A>)
						</SMALL>
					</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR>
					<TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">mandoc_char(7)</A></TD>
					<TD VALIGN="top">
						mandoc special characters
						<SMALL>
							(<A HREF="mandoc_char.7.txt">text</A> | 
							<A HREF="mandoc_char.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
							<A HREF="mandoc_char.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
							<A HREF="mandoc_char.7.ps">postscript</A>)
						</SMALL>
					</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR>
					<TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A></TD>
					<TD VALIGN="top">
						mdoc language reference
						<SMALL>
							(<A HREF="mdoc.7.txt">text</A> | 
							<A HREF="mdoc.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
							<A HREF="mdoc.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
							<A HREF="mdoc.7.ps">postscript</A>)
						</SMALL>
					</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR>
					<TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A></TD>
					<TD VALIGN="top">
						roff-mandoc language reference
						<SMALL>
							(<A HREF="roff.7.txt">text</A> | 
							<A HREF="roff.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
							<A HREF="roff.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
							<A HREF="roff.7.ps">postscript</A>)
						</SMALL>
					</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR>
					<TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl(7)</A></TD>
					<TD VALIGN="top">
						tbl-mandoc language reference
						<SMALL>
							(<A HREF="tbl.7.txt">text</A> | 
							<A HREF="tbl.7.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
							<A HREF="tbl.7.pdf">pdf</A> |
							<A HREF="tbl.7.ps">postscript</A>)
						</SMALL>
					</TD>
				</TR>
			</TBODY>
		</TABLE>

		<H1>
			<A NAME="contact">CONTACT</A>
		</H1>

		<P>
			Use the mailing lists for bug-reports, patches, questions, etc. (these require subscription).  Please check the
			<A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/TODO?cvsroot=mdocml">TODO</A> for known issues
			before posting.  Beyond that, contact Kristaps at <A
			HREF="http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01M6h_w7twDp58ZgH57eWC_w==&amp;c=Q2DBUt401ePlSeupJFrq_Q==" TITLE="Reveal
			this e-mail address">kris...</A>@bsd.lv.
		</P>

		<TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Mailing Lists">
			<COL WIDTH="175">
			<COL>
			<TBODY>
				<TR>
					<TD>
						disc<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
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					</TD>
					<TD>
						bug-reports, general questions, and announcements 
						<SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/discuss/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
					</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR>
					<TD>
						tec<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
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					</TD>
					<TD>
						patches and system discussions 
						<SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/tech/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
					</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR>
					<TD>
						sou<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
						HREF="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01prQrAZhhl2EbIwVcRfABsQ==&amp;c=KtTW4Yic9xk-8g40KzJoca4fR3MYXv28g8NC6OQV-T8=">...</A>@mdocml.bsd.lv
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					<TD>
						source commit messages 
						<SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/source/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
					</TD>
				</TR>
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		</TABLE>

		<H1>
			<A NAME="news">NEWS</A>
		</H1>

		<P CLASS="news">
			04-04-2011: version 1.11.1
		</P>
		<P>
			The earlier <I>libroff</I>, <I>libmdoc</I>, and <I>libman</I> soup have been merged into
			a single library, <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A>, which manages all aspects of
			parsing real manuals (from line-handling to <A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl</A> parsing).
		</P>
		<P>
			Beyond this structural change, initial <A HREF="eqn.7.html">eqn</A> functionality is in
			place.  For the time being, this is limited to the recognition of equation blocks;
			future version of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> will expand upon this framework.
		</P>
		<P>
			As usual, many general fixes and improvements have also occurred.  In particular, a great
			deal of redundancy and superfluous code has been removed with the merging of the backend
			libraries.
		</P>

		<P CLASS="news">
			07-01-2011: version 1.10.9
		</P>
		<P>
			Many back-end fixes have been implemented: argument handling (quoting), <A
			HREF="man.7.html">man</A> improvements, error/warning classes, and many more.
		</P>
		<P>
			Initial <A HREF="tbl.7.html">tbl</A> functionality (see the <Q>TS</Q>, <Q>TE</Q>, and
			<Q>T&amp;</Q> macros in the <A HREF="roff.7.html#x5c265453">roff</A> manual) has been
			merged from <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://tbl.bsd.lv">tbl.bsd.lv</A>.  Output is
			still minimal, especially for <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Thtml</SPAN> and <SPAN
			CLASS="flag">-Txhtml</SPAN>, but manages to at least display data.  This means that <A
			HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> now has built-in support for two troff preprocessors via
			<DEL>libroff</DEL>: soelim and tbl.
		</P>

		<P CLASS="news">
			24-12-2010: version 1.10.8
		</P>
		<P>
			Significant improvements merged from <A CLASS="external"
			HREF="http://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</A> downstream, including
		</P>
		<UL>
			<LI>many new <A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> components,</LI>
			<LI>in-line implementation of troff's soelim,</LI>
			<LI>broken-block handling,</LI>
			<LI>overhauled error classifications, and</LI>
			<LI>cleaned up handling of error conditions.</LI>
		</UL>
		<P>
			Also overhauled the <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Thtml</SPAN> and <SPAN
			CLASS="flag">-Txhtml</SPAN> output modes.  They now display readable output in arbitrary
			browsers, including text-based ones like <A CLASS="external"
			HREF="http://lynx.isc.org">lynx</A>.  See HTML and XHTML manuals in the <A
			HREF="#documentation">DOCUMENTATION</A> section for examples.  <SPAN
			CLASS="attn">Attention: available style-sheet classes have been considerably
			changed!</SPAN> See the <SPAN CLASS="file">example.style.css</SPAN> file for details.
			Lastly, <DEL>libmdoc</DEL> and <DEL>libman</DEL> have been
			cleaned up and reduced in size and complexity.
		</P>

		<P>
			See <A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> for
			historical notes.
		</P>

		<P CLASS="foot">
			Copyright &#169; 2008&#8211;2011 
			<A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>, 
			$Date: 2011/05/04 08:21:17 $
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