Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 21:40:34 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47608 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201510172140.t9HLeYYM095376@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sat Oct 17 21:40:34 2015 New Revision: 47608 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47608 Log: Add report on the mandoc and roff toolchains, from bapt Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Sat Oct 17 21:20:08 2015 (r47607) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Sat Oct 17 21:40:34 2015 (r47608) @@ -2389,4 +2389,67 @@ </body> </project> + <project cat='bin'> + <title>mandoc and roff Toolchain</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Baptiste</given> + <common>Daroussin</common> + </name> + <email>bapt@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-doctools">Heirloom + doctools</url> + <url href="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/">mandoc</url>; + </links> + + <body> + <p><tt>mandoc</tt> is a suite of tools for compiling + <tt>mdoc</tt>, the <tt>roff</tt> macro language of choice for BSD + manual pages.</p> + + <p><tt>mandoc</tt> is the default renderer for manpages on + &os; head. This quarter, the apropos(1) utility was switched to + use mandoc's version, which offers a new database format (in + sqlite) bringing more powerful, fine-grained ways to search + manpages.</p> + + <p>While mandoc is very good for manpages, we also provide + lots of other documentation in plain <tt>roff</tt> format. The + heirloom toolchain is being studied to replace <tt>groff</tt> in + base. The heirloom nroff toolchain has multiple benefits: it has + very good unicode support, and very good compatibility with + groff.</p> + + <p>A great deal of work as been done testing the heirloom + nroff toolchain with all the roff documents in the base system + (including manpages), and upstream has been very proactive in + fixing reported bugs.</p> + + <p>The 'soelim(1)' utility has been replaced with a + BSD-licensed version which is good enough to work with all available + roff toolchains (to ease transition). This version + of the soelim(1) utility, originally written solely for &os;, is + now part of the mandoc tool suite.</p> + + <p>The col(1) utility has been cleaned up and updated to + recognize both SUSv2-style escape-digit and BSD-style + escape-control-char sequences in the input stream (in coordination + with Ingo Schwarze from OpenBSD)</p> + + <p>The checknr(1) utility has been cleaned up and extended to + support modern roff(7) macros (including synchronizing code from NetBSD + and the heirloom docutils version).</p> + + <p>Many roff fixes were made to documentation and manpages, + having been discovered while testing the new toolchain. + </p> + </body> + </project> + </report>
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