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						<B>mdocml</B> &#8211; mdoc macro compiler
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					<H1>
					DESCRIPTION
					</H1>

					<P>
					<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <Q>-mdoc</Q>, the roff macro package
					of choice for BSD manual pages, and <Q>-man</Q>, 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 roff implementation, for
					displaying -mdoc pages whilst providing token support for -man.
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					<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, ISC-licensed, fast and regular).
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					<P>
					The core of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is composed of the <A HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A>, <A
					HREF="man.3.html">libman</A>, and <A HREF="roff.3.html">libroff</A> validating compiler libraries.  All
					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 front-end is <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which formats
					manuals for display.
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					<P>
					The <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> suite is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv
					Project</A> member.
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					SOURCES
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					Sources correctly build and install on DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, GNU/Linux, and many
					other operating systems, tested variously on i386, AMD64, alpha, and others.  The most current version
					is <SPAN CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN>, dated <SPAN class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>.  A full <A
					HREF="ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</A> (<A HREF="ChangeLog.txt">txt</A>) is written with each release.
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					Current
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							<TD>Source archive</TD>
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							<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz</A> 
							(<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.md5">md5</A>)
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							<TD>Online source</TD>
							<TD>
							<A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A>
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					<H2>
					Downstream
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							<TD>DragonFly BSD</TD>
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							<A HREF="http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/HEAD:/usr.bin/mandoc"
								CLASS="external">usr.bin/mandoc</A>
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							<TD>FreeBSD</TD>
							<TD>
							<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/mdocml/" 
								CLASS="external">ports/textproc/mdocml</A>
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							<TD>NetBSD</TD>
							<TD>
							<A HREF="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/mdocml/"
								CLASS="external">src/external/bsd/mdocml</A>
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							<TD>OpenBSD</TD>
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							<A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/"
								CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A> 
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					<H2>
					Historical
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							<TD>Source archive</TD>
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							<A HREF="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</A> 
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					<H1>
					DOCUMENTATION
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					These manuals are generated automatically and refer to the current snapshot.
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							<TD><A HREF="man.3.html">man(3)</A> (<A HREF="man.3.txt">text</A>)</TD>
							<TD>man macro compiler library</TD>
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							<TD><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A> (<A HREF="man.7.txt">text</A>)</TD>
							<TD>man language reference</TD>
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							<TD><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc(1)</A> (<A HREF="mandoc.1.txt">text</A>)</TD>
							<TD>format and display UNIX manuals</TD>
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							<TD><A HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">mandoc_char(7)</A> (<A HREF="mandoc_char.7.txt">text</A>)</TD>
							<TD>mandoc special characters</TD>
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							<TD><A HREF="manuals.7.html">manuals(7)</A> (<A HREF="manuals.7.txt">text</A>)</TD>
							<TD>a guide to writing UNIX manuals</TD>
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							<TD><A HREF="mdoc.3.html">mdoc(3)</A> (<A HREF="mdoc.3.txt">text</A>)</TD>
							<TD>mdoc macro compiler library</TD>
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							<TD><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc(7)</A> (<A HREF="mdoc.7.txt">text</A>)</TD>
							<TD>mdoc language reference</TD>
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							<TD><A HREF="roff.3.html">roff(3)</A> (<A HREF="roff.3.txt">text</A>)</TD>
							<TD>roff macro compiler library</TD>
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							<TD><A HREF="roff.7.html">roff(7)</A> (<A HREF="roff.7.txt">text</A>)</TD>
							<TD>roff-mandoc language reference</TD>
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					<H1>
					CONTACT
					</H1>

					<P>
					For all issues related to <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN>, contact Kristaps Dzonsons, kris<A
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					You may also subscribe to several mailing lists (these require subscription, which is moderated).  An
					archive is not yet available on-line, although you may request one once subscribed.
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								<TD>high-level discussions and version announcements</TD>
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									tec<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
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								<TD>low-level discussions</TD>
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									sou<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
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								<TD>source commit messages</TD>
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					<H1>
					NEWS
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								<TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">xx-05-2010</SPAN></TD>
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								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:
								<UL>
								<LI>a <A HREF="roff.3.html">libroff</A> preprocessor in front of <A
								HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A> and <A HREF="man.3.html">libman</A> stripping out
								<A HREF="roff.7.html">roff</A> instructions;</LI>
								<LI>end-of-sentence (EOS) detection in free-form and macro lines;</LI>
								<LI>correct handling of tab-separated columnar lists in <SPAN
								CLASS="flag">-mdoc</SPAN>;</LI>
								<LI>improved main calling routines to optionally use mmap() for better
								performance;</LI>
								<LI>cleaned up exiting when invoked as <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tlint</SPAN> or over
								multiple files with <SPAN CLASS="flag">-fign-errors</SPAN>;</LI>
								<LI>error and warning message handling re-written to be unified for <A
								HREF="roff.3.html">libroff</A>, <A HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A>, and <A
								HREF="man.3.html">libman</A>;</LI>
								<LI>handling of badly-nested explicit-scoped macros;</LI>
								<LI>improved free-form text parsing in <A HREF="man.3.html">libman</A> and <A
								HREF="mdoc.3.html">libmdoc</A>;</LI>
								<LI>significant GNU troff compatibility improvements in <SPAN
								CLASS="flag">-Tascii</SPAN>, largely in terms of spacing;</LI>
								<LI>a regression framework for making sure the many fragilities of GNU troff
								aren't trampled in subsequent work;</LI>
								<LI>support for <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Tascii</SPAN> breaking at hyphens
								encountered in free-form text;</LI>
								<LI>and many more minor fixes and improvements (no really, consult <A
								HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A> and see
								for yourself!).</LI>
								</UL>
								Version: <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.10.0</SPAN>.
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								<TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">13-05-2010</SPAN></TD>
								<TD VALIGN="top">
								Fixed handling of <Q>\*(Ba</Q> escape.  Backed out <SPAN
								CLASS="flag">-fno-ign-chars</SPAN> (pointless complexity).  Fixed erroneous
								breaking of literal lines.  Fixed SYNOPSIS breaking lines before non-initial
								macros.  Changed default section ordering.  Most importantly, the framework for
								end-of-sentence double-spacing is in place, now implemented for the
								<Q>end-of-sentence, end-of-line</Q> rule.  This is a stable roll-back point
								before the mandoc hackathon in Rostock!
								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
								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, <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is the focus of two <A
								CLASS="external" HREF="http://socghop.appspot.com/">Google Summer of Code</A>
								projects this year: <Q><A CLASS="external"
								HREF="http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/mandoc_ps/">mandoc -Tps</A></Q>
								(NetBSD) and <Q><A CLASS="external"
								HREF="http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2010Projects">BSD-licensed
								Text-Processing Tools</A></Q> (FreeBSD).
								Version: <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.24</SPAN>.
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								<TD VALIGN="top"><SPAN CLASS="date">07-04-2010</SPAN></TD>
								<TD VALIGN="top">
								<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> has been linked to the <A CLASS="external"
								HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html#20100403">OpenBSD build</a>.  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 <SPAN CLASS="flag">-Thtml</SPAN> have been fixed, which
								prompted an update to the <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">online</A> <A
								HREF="mandoc_char.7.html">manual</A> <A HREF="man.7.html">pages</A> style
								layout.  Version: <SPAN CLASS="rev">1.9.23</SPAN>.
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								See 
								<A
								HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/index.sgml?cvsroot=mdocml">cvsweb</A>
								for historical notes.
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						Copyright &#169; 2008&#8211;2010 Kristaps Dzonsons, $Date: 2010/05/25 23:02:32 $
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