From cbb9ca4981d3d54d17cb1663a025b02b69fc7aad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kristaps Dzonsons Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:44:42 +0000 Subject: Begin working on release notes. Also whitespace-fix man.cgi.7. --- index.sgml | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'index.sgml') diff --git a/index.sgml b/index.sgml index 07c4b10b..825acc30 100644 --- a/index.sgml +++ b/index.sgml @@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ It also includes preconv, for recoding multibyte manuals; demandoc, for emitting only text parts of manuals; mandocdb, for indexing manuals; and - apropos and whatis, for semantic search of manual content. + apropos, whatis, and + man.cgi (via catman) for semantic search of manual content. It is a BSD.lv project.

@@ -54,10 +55,11 @@

mdocml is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll need libdb to build apropos, whatis, and mandocdb (this - is installed by default on BSD UNIX systems — see the Makefile if you're running Linux). To build and - install into /usr/local/, just run make install. Be careful: the preconv, apropos, - and whatis binary names are usually taken by existing utilities. + HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos, whatis, man.cgi, catman, and mandocdb (this is installed by default on BSD UNIX + systems — see the Makefile if you're running Linux). To build and install into /usr/local/, just + run make install. Be careful: the preconv, apropos, and whatis binary names are + usually taken by existing utilities.

Binaries @@ -199,6 +201,16 @@ ps) + + man.cgi(7) + + cgi for manpage query and display + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + ps) + + eqn(7) @@ -249,6 +261,16 @@ ps) + + catman(8) + + update a man.cgi manpage cache + (text | + xhtml | + pdf | + ps) + + mandocdb(8) @@ -313,7 +335,13 @@

Significant work on apropos and mandocdb. These tools are now much more robust and in line with other manpage systems. A whatis implementation is now - handled as an apropos mode. + handled as an apropos mode. These tools are also able to minimally handle pre-formatted + pages, that is, those already formatted by another utility such as GNU troff. +

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+ The man.cgi script is also now available for wider testing. It interfaces with mandocdb manuals cached by catman. HTML output is generated + on-the-fly by libmandoc or internal methods to convert pre-formatted pages.

08-10-2011: version 1.12.0 -- cgit