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<B>mdocml</B> – mdoc macro compiler
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<H1>
<A NAME="description">DESCRIPTION</A>
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<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>.
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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 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).
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<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.
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<I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.
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<H1>
<A NAME="sources">SOURCES</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. 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>.
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<P>
Note that <A HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A> is not yet linked to the build. You must run <CODE>make
makewhatis</CODE> to build it.
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Current
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<TABLE WIDTH="100%" SUMMARY="Current Sources">
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<TD>Source archive</TD>
<TD>
<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>
<TD>
<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>
<TD>
<A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/"
CLASS="external">src/usr.bin/mandoc</A>
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Historical
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<TD>Source archive</TD>
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<A HREF="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</A>
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<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"><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>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="mandoc.1.html">makewhatis(1)</A></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">
index UNIX manuals
<SMALL>
(<A HREF="makewhatis.1.txt">text</A> |
<A HREF="makewhatis.1.xhtml">xhtml</A> |
<A HREF="makewhatis.1.pdf">pdf</A> |
<A HREF="makewhatis.1.ps">postscript</A>)
</SMALL>
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<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>
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</TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="man.7.html">man(7)</A></TD>
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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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>)
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<H1>
<A NAME="contact">CONTACT</A>
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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==&c=Q2DBUt401ePlSeupJFrq_Q==" TITLE="Reveal
this e-mail address">kris...</A>@bsd.lv.
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disc<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
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<TD>
bug-reports, general questions, and announcements
<SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/discuss/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
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tec<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
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patches and system discussions
<SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/tech/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
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sou<A CLASS="external" TITLE="Reveal this e-mail address"
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source commit messages
<SMALL>(<A HREF="/archives/source/summary.html">archive</A>)</SMALL>
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<H1>
<A NAME="news">NEWS</A>
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<P CLASS="news">
12-05-2011: version 1.11.2
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<P>
Corrected some installation issues in version 1.11.1.
Initial public release (this utility is very much under development) of <A HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A>,
initially named mandoc-db.
This utility produces keyword databases of manual content
<A HREF="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/mandoc-cgi/index.html">mandoc-cgi</A>, which features semantic querying of manual content.
</P>
<P CLASS="news">
04-04-2011: version 1.11.1
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<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&</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.
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Copyright © 2008–2011
<A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>,
$Date$
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