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[pkgsrc/trunk]: pkgsrc/textproc/mandoc mandoc: improve DESCR, from Ingo



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/pkgsrc/rev/4888a3269b85
branches:  trunk
changeset: 311748:4888a3269b85
user:      wiz <wiz%pkgsrc.org@localhost>
date:      Fri Aug 17 09:21:02 2018 +0000

description:
mandoc: improve DESCR, from Ingo

diffstat:

 textproc/mandoc/DESCR |  20 +++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diffs (28 lines):

diff -r 88a27d3aa5dc -r 4888a3269b85 textproc/mandoc/DESCR
--- a/textproc/mandoc/DESCR     Fri Aug 17 07:17:06 2018 +0000
+++ b/textproc/mandoc/DESCR     Fri Aug 17 09:21:02 2018 +0000
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
-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
+The mandoc manual page parser and formatter package contains:
+ * the man(1) program to display manual pages
+ * the apropos(1) program to search for manual pages
+ * semantic search, regular expressions, and logical operators
+ * the makewhatis(8) program to build manual page databases
+ * the catman(8) program for bulk formatting of many pages
+ * the man.cgi(8) program to serve manual pages on the web
+ * complete validating parsers for the mdoc(7) and man(7) languages
+ * slightly incomplete parsers for the tbl(7) and eqn(7) languages
+ * support for some selected roff(7) requests that occur in manuals
+ * complete ASCII, UTF-8, and HTML text output formatters
  * simple PostScript and PDF output formatters
- * output formatters producing indented mdoc and man parse trees
+ * translators from the mdoc(7) to the man(7) and markdown languages
+ * output formatters producing indented mdoc(7) and man(7) 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



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