mdocml – mdoc macro compiler
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DESCRIPTIONmdocml 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. 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). The core of mdocml are 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. |
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INSTALLING SOURCESSources correctly build and install on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux operating systems, tested variously on i386, AMD64, alpha and others. The most current version is @VERSION@, dated @VDATE@. Snapshot sourceCVS sources are checkedout and snapshotted with version updates. These (and all historical snapshots) may be found in the /snapshots/ directory. A full ChangeLog is written with each new snapshot.
% cd /tmp Snapshot port/pkgsrcThe source snapshot is automatically converted into OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD ports at /ports-openbsd/, /ports-netbsd/ and /ports-freebsd/, respectively. Please read the OpenBSD Ports FAQ, the NetBSD pkgsrc guide or the FreeBSD ports guide, first. OpenBSD port
# pkg_delete mdocml NetBSD pkgsrc
# pkg_delete mdocml FreeBSD port
# pkg_delete -x mdocml |
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DOCUMENTATION
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CONTACTFor all issues related to mdocml, contact Kristaps, kris...@kth.se. If you want to receive a semi-automated mail-out of new versions, then please write with a message subject of “subscribe mdocml” (or, symmetrically, “unsubscribe mdocml”). We don't yet offer anonymous CVS access. If you must have read-only access to the CVS tree (for down-stream maintenance and so on), then please contact Kristaps directly for a read-only CVS account. We strongly suggest using snapshots, instead. |
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Copyright © 2008, 2009 Kristaps Džonsons, $Date: 2009/06/13 13:02:53 $
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