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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2009-02-27 10:55:16 +0000
committerKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2009-02-27 10:55:16 +0000
commit69daad351ec2ab2069748a5a0139dae5f65642aa (patch)
treeedcb375f2efa22c6b45d526b4e34453dd6fb03fc /index.sgml
parent79f971e5f7cb6c69d1b2ed2d38a5bccd604a24f5 (diff)
downloadmandoc-69daad351ec2ab2069748a5a0139dae5f65642aa.tar.gz
Slowly decoupling mdoc(3) from being OpenBSD-only.VERSION.1.3.6
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/index.sgml b/index.sgml
index 593c7546..2037d9da 100644
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+++ b/index.sgml
@@ -24,11 +24,16 @@
</h1>
<p>
- <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is a suite of tools that compile &#8220;mdoc&#8221;, 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 &#8220;mdoc&#8221;, 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> &#8211; formats mdoc input for display on the terminal
- <li><span class="man">mdochtml(1)</span> &#8211; formats mdoc input as strict HTML (nascent)
+ <li><span class="man">mdochtml(1)</span> &#8211; formats mdoc input as HTML/CSS (nascent)
<li><span class="man">mdoclint(1)</span> &#8211; validates mdoc input
<li><span class="man">mdoctree(1)</span> &#8211; 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>