mdocml: More updates to www.

mdocml: More updates to www.

[kristaps]

Log Message:
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More updates to www.  A version's on its way...

Modified Files:
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    mdocml:
        index.sgml

Revision Data
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Index: index.sgml
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RCS file: /usr/vhosts/mdocml.bsd.lv/cvs/mdocml/index.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.120
retrieving revision 1.121
diff -Lindex.sgml -Lindex.sgml -u -p -r1.120 -r1.121
--- index.sgml
+++ index.sgml
@@ -9,11 +9,9 @@
 		<P CLASS="head">
 			<B>mdocml</B> &#8211; mdoc macro compiler
 		</P>
-
 		<H1>
 			<A NAME="description">Description</A>
 		</H1>
-
 		<P>
 			<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <I><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></I>, the roff macro
 			package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <I><A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></I>, the predominant historical package for
@@ -21,37 +19,41 @@
 			HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, the GNU troff implementation, for displaying <I>mdoc</I>
 			pages whilst providing token support for <I>man</I>.
 		</P>
-
 		<P>
 			Why?  groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and all of which is GPL.  It runs slowly, produces
 			uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system.  mdocml strives to fix this (respectively small, C, <A
 			CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, fast and regular).
 		</P>
-
 		<P>
 			<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler and <A
-			HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals, XHTML,
-			HTML, PostScript, and PDF.  It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.  
+			HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals (with
+			support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.  
+			It also includes <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A>, for recoding multibyte manuals; and <A
+			HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A>, for indexing manuals.
+			It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.  
 		</P>
-
 		<P>
 			<I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.
 		</P>
-
 		<H1>
 			<A NAME="sources">Sources</A>
 		</H1>
-
 		<P>
 			<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any UNIX system, although <A
 			HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A> requires <A CLASS="external"
 			HREF="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html">Berkeley Database</A> (this is
-			installed by default on all BSD operating systems).  The most current version is <SPAN CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN>,
-			dated <SPAN class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>.  If your system doesn't come with <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> (see
-			<Q>Downstream</Q>), run <CODE>make</CODE> to compile and <CODE>make install</CODE> to install into <I>/usr/local</I>.
-			Note that <A HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A> is not yet linked to the build.  You must run <CODE>make
+			installed by default on all BSD operating systems).  
+			To compile <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN>, run <CODE>make</CODE>, then <CODE>make install</CODE> to install into
+			<I>/usr/local</I>.
+			Be aware: if you have an existing <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A> installation,
+			this may overwrite its <B>preconv</B> binary.
+			The <A HREF="makewhatis.1.html">makewhatis</A> utility is not yet linked to the build.  You must run <CODE>make
 			makewhatis</CODE> to build it (it does not install).
 		</P>
+		<P>
+			The most current version of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is <SPAN CLASS="attn">@VERSION@</SPAN>, dated <SPAN
+			class="attn">@VDATE@</SPAN>.  
+		</P>
 
 		<H2>
 			Current
@@ -65,7 +67,7 @@
 					<TD>Source archive</TD>
 					<TD>
 					<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz">/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz</A> 
-					(<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.md5">md5</A>)
+					<SMALL>(<A HREF="/snapshots/mdocml.md5">md5</A>)</SMALL>
 					</TD>
 				</TR>
 				<TR>
@@ -335,6 +337,7 @@
 		<P>
 			Furthermore, multibyte-encoded documents, such as those in UTF-8, may be on-the-fly recoded as <A
 			HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A> input by using the newly-added <A HREF="preconv.1.html">preconv</A> utility.
+			Note: in the future, this feature may be integrated into <A HREF="mandoc.1.html">mandoc</A>.
 		</P>
 
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