From e23d8aec20758e4e3134d8a5a4fd7484929aef72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kristaps Dzonsons Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 20:23:01 +0000 Subject: More updates to www. A version's on its way... --- index.sgml | 31 +++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.sgml b/index.sgml index 5143a807..33fd81a3 100644 --- a/index.sgml +++ b/index.sgml @@ -9,11 +9,9 @@

mdocml – mdoc macro compiler

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Description

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mdocml is a suite of tools compiling mdoc, the roff macro package of choice for BSD manual pages, and man, the predominant historical package for @@ -21,37 +19,41 @@ HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff, the GNU troff implementation, for displaying mdoc pages whilst providing token support for man.

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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, ISC-licensed, fast and regular).

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mdocml consists of the libmandoc validating compiler and mandoc, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals, XHTML, - HTML, PostScript, and PDF. It is a BSD.lv project. + HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals (with + support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF. + It also includes preconv, for recoding multibyte manuals; and makewhatis, for indexing manuals. + It is a BSD.lv project.

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Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary, mandoc.

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Sources

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mdocml is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any UNIX system, although makewhatis requires Berkeley Database (this is - installed by default on all BSD operating systems). The most current version is @VERSION@, - dated @VDATE@. If your system doesn't come with mdocml (see - Downstream), run make to compile and make install to install into /usr/local. - Note that makewhatis is not yet linked to the build. You must run make + installed by default on all BSD operating systems). + To compile mdocml, run make, then make install to install into + /usr/local. + Be aware: if you have an existing groff installation, + this may overwrite its preconv binary. + The makewhatis utility is not yet linked to the build. You must run make makewhatis to build it (it does not install).

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+ The most current version of mdocml is @VERSION@, dated @VDATE@. +

Current @@ -65,7 +67,7 @@ Source archive /snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz - (md5) + (md5) @@ -335,6 +337,7 @@

Furthermore, multibyte-encoded documents, such as those in UTF-8, may be on-the-fly recoded as mandoc input by using the newly-added preconv utility. + Note: in the future, this feature may be integrated into mandoc.

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