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| author | wiz <wiz> | 2013-09-15 13:03:27 +0000 |
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| committer | wiz <wiz> | 2013-09-15 13:03:27 +0000 |
| commit | 65a1ed5c1e325e547e55046a2a4a55dc4b6cc036 (patch) | |
| tree | 40043a201135649e959fc953ac9537f8e524a7c2 /textproc/mdocml | |
| parent | 9ea1662634c43b619dd2f28185efcf8eb951b27c (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-65a1ed5c1e325e547e55046a2a4a55dc4b6cc036.tar.gz | |
Improve COMMENT and description.
From Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'textproc/mdocml')
| -rw-r--r-- | textproc/mdocml/DESCR | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | textproc/mdocml/Makefile | 4 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/textproc/mdocml/DESCR b/textproc/mdocml/DESCR index 045f7eda466..6857ad719a7 100644 --- a/textproc/mdocml/DESCR +++ b/textproc/mdocml/DESCR @@ -1,2 +1,13 @@ -The mdocml utilities interface with the mdoc library to compile -mdoc-roff documents into a variety of output formats. +The 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. diff --git a/textproc/mdocml/Makefile b/textproc/mdocml/Makefile index bf9ff92dee8..c63a4a6233d 100644 --- a/textproc/mdocml/Makefile +++ b/textproc/mdocml/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.35 2013/09/12 10:33:29 jperkin Exp $ +# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.36 2013/09/15 13:03:27 wiz Exp $ DISTNAME= mdocml-1.12.0 PKGREVISION= 3 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ MASTER_SITES= http://mdocml.bsd.lv/snapshots/ MAINTAINER= kristaps@kth.se HOMEPAGE= http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ -COMMENT= Man page tool (mdoc macro compiler) +COMMENT= Convert man pages from mdoc, man, and tbl to txt, html, ps, or pdf LICENSE= 2-clause-bsd # not exactly, but near enough MAKE_FLAGS+= PREFIX=${PREFIX} DBLIB=${BDB_LIBS:Q} |