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| author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2013-11-07 21:57:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2013-11-07 21:57:14 +0000 |
| commit | 43bee0eed7ca3a1679b342efd77e0cab760f67b2 (patch) | |
| tree | 8058a254f9767b1bf910a3d66376162afc755eb9 | |
| parent | aa8dc4e09c22e973bb81c213d552acd4df32e1fb (diff) | |
| download | mandoc-43bee0eed7ca3a1679b342efd77e0cab760f67b2.tar.gz | |
Mention that mandoc is also an OpenBSD project, agreed by Kristaps.
Remove text about groff as suggested by Kristaps;
explaining that topic properly would get too long.
| -rw-r--r-- | index.sgml | 26 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ </HEAD> <BODY> <P CLASS="head"> + <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/"><IMG SRC="puffy.gif" ALT="Puffy" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="91" STYLE="float: right"></A> <B>mdocml</B> – UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@) </P> <P CLASS="subhead"> @@ -20,14 +21,8 @@ <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 GPL version 3. 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). + UNIX manuals. + It is small, ISO C, <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, and quite fast. </P> <P> <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler and <A @@ -38,7 +33,20 @@ <A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, for indexing manuals; and <A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A>, <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A>, and <A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A> (via <A HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>) for semantic search of manual content. - It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project. + </P> + <P> + <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> has predominantly been developed on OpenBSD + and is both an <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</A> + and a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project. + We strive to support all interested free operating systems, in particular + <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</A>, + <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/">DragonFly</A>, + <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</A>, + <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.minix3.org/">Minix 3</A>, + and <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU</A>/Linux, + as well as all systems running the <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.pkgsrc.org/">pkgsrc</A> portable package build system. + All of these projects have helped to make <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> better, by providing feedback and advice, + bug reports, and patches. </P> <P> <I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>. |