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| author | Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> | 2009-02-27 10:55:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> | 2009-02-27 10:55:16 +0000 |
| commit | 69daad351ec2ab2069748a5a0139dae5f65642aa (patch) | |
| tree | edcb375f2efa22c6b45d526b4e34453dd6fb03fc /index.sgml | |
| parent | 79f971e5f7cb6c69d1b2ed2d38a5bccd604a24f5 (diff) | |
| download | mandoc-69daad351ec2ab2069748a5a0139dae5f65642aa.tar.gz | |
Slowly decoupling mdoc(3) from being OpenBSD-only.VERSION.1.3.6
Diffstat (limited to 'index.sgml')
| -rw-r--r-- | index.sgml | 21 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -24,11 +24,16 @@ </h1> <p> - <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is a suite of tools that compile “mdoc”, the roff macro - package of the BSD manual pages. The mission of <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is to deprecate <a + <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is a suite of tools compiling “mdoc”, the roff macro + package for BSD manual pages. 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 BSD mdoc pages. groff amounts to over 60 000 lines of GPL C++ source, which is a - considerable encumbrance to BSD operating systems. + displaying BSD mdoc pages. + </p> + + <p> + Why? groff amounts to roughly 5,2 MB of source code (OpenBSD 4.2), some 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). </p> <p> @@ -44,7 +49,7 @@ <ul> <li><span class="man">mdocterm(1)</span> – formats mdoc input for display on the terminal - <li><span class="man">mdochtml(1)</span> – formats mdoc input as strict HTML (nascent) + <li><span class="man">mdochtml(1)</span> – formats mdoc input as HTML/CSS (nascent) <li><span class="man">mdoclint(1)</span> – validates mdoc input <li><span class="man">mdoctree(1)</span> – prints input abstract syntax tree </ul> @@ -79,11 +84,11 @@ </p> <h2> - snapshotted source + Snapshot source </h2> <p> - CVS sources are checkedout and snapshotted with big updates. These may be found in the <a + CVS sources are checkedout and snapshotted with version updates. These may be found in the <a href="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</a> directory. </p> @@ -97,7 +102,7 @@ </p> <h2> - nightly port + Snapshot port </h2> <p> |