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Revision 1.3, Sun Mar 23 15:06:06 2014 UTC (10 years ago) by wiz
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: pkgsrc-2017Q2-base, pkgsrc-2017Q2, pkgsrc-2017Q1-base, pkgsrc-2017Q1, pkgsrc-2016Q4-base, pkgsrc-2016Q4, pkgsrc-2016Q3-base, pkgsrc-2016Q3, pkgsrc-2016Q2-base, pkgsrc-2016Q2, pkgsrc-2016Q1-base, pkgsrc-2016Q1, pkgsrc-2015Q4-base, pkgsrc-2015Q4, pkgsrc-2015Q3-base, pkgsrc-2015Q3, pkgsrc-2015Q2-base, pkgsrc-2015Q2, pkgsrc-2015Q1-base, pkgsrc-2015Q1, pkgsrc-2014Q4-base, pkgsrc-2014Q4, pkgsrc-2014Q3-base, pkgsrc-2014Q3, pkgsrc-2014Q2-base, pkgsrc-2014Q2, pkgsrc-2014Q1-base, pkgsrc-2014Q1
Changes since 1.2: +1 -1 lines

Add equivalency to mdocml so pkglocate has a hit here.

The mdocml = mandoc manual page parser and formatter contains:
 * complete validating parsers for the mdoc and man languages
 * a slightly incomplete parser handling most of the tbl language
 * a very incomplete parser handling a part of the eqn language
 * support for a few selected roff requests that often occur in manuals
 * complete ASCII, UTF8, HTML and XHTML text output formatters
 * simple PostScript and PDF output formatters
 * output formatters producing indented mdoc and man parse trees

To format manuals for console display, it can be used as a smaller
and faster drop-in replacement for nroff -mandoc.  Some rare manuals
using lots of uncommon low-level roff requests may not work with
mandoc but require a full roff implementation.