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diff --git a/textproc/mdocml/pkg-descr b/textproc/mdocml/pkg-descr index b01c73b74207..53328dfc1556 100644 --- a/textproc/mdocml/pkg-descr +++ b/textproc/mdocml/pkg-descr @@ -1,4 +1,15 @@ -The mdocml utilities compile mdoc-roff documents into a -variety of output formats. +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. The mission of mdocml is to deprecate groff, +the GNU troff implementation, for displaying mdoc pages whilst +providing token support for man. + +mdocml consists of the libmandoc validating compiler and mandoc, which +interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX +terminals (with support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, +PostScript, and PDF. + +Disambiguation: mdocml is often referred to by its installed binary, +"mandoc". WWW: http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ |