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| author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2018-07-31 10:18:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2018-07-31 10:18:15 +0000 |
| commit | 255f9b0b67eb18c98b889e4b32f7d1dd8159b5a5 (patch) | |
| tree | f25d1a25d41b4a524fc9149746ea6d83b6678948 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 9c15a959c319606df73901910293b5355bdfb893 (diff) | |
| download | mandoc-255f9b0b67eb18c98b889e4b32f7d1dd8159b5a5.tar.gz | |
first steps toward the 1.14.4 release
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tech@ mailing list, too. Enjoy using the mandoc toolset! -Ingo Schwarze, Karlsruhe, July 2017 +Ingo Schwarze, Karlsruhe, August 2018 Installation @@ -83,12 +83,14 @@ apropos(1) will not find the new pages. 10. To set up a man.cgi(8) server, read its manual page. -Note that some man(7) pages may contain low-level roff(7) markup -that mandoc does not yet understand. On some BSD systems using -mandoc, third-party software is vetted on whether it may be formatted -with mandoc. If not, groff(1) is pulled in as a dependency and -used to install a pre-formatted "catpage" instead of directly as -manual page source. +Note that a very small number of man(7) pages contain low-level +roff(7) markup that mandoc does not yet understand. On some BSD +systems using mandoc, third-party software is vetted on whether it +may be formatted with mandoc. If not, groff(1) is pulled in as a +dependency and used to install pre-formatted "catpages" instead of +manual page sources. This mechanism is used much less frequently +than in the past. On OpenBSD, only 25 out of about 10000 ports +still require formatting with groff(1). Understanding mandoc dependencies |