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diff --git a/system/mdocml/README b/system/mdocml/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..40c03d56a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/mdocml/README @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +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 UNIX manuals. +It is small, ISO C, ISC-licensed, and quite fast. + +The tool set features mandoc, based on the libmandoc validating compiler, 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; demandoc, for emitting only text parts of manuals; mandocdb, +for indexing manuals; and apropos, whatis, and man.cgi (via catman) for +semantic search of manual content. |