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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2010-04-13 05:26:49 +0000
committerKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2010-04-13 05:26:49 +0000
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As per Jason McIntyre's heartful urgings, do away with '.' separators between logical sections.
Change email address to BSD.lv one (this is not an academic project...)
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.\" $Id$
.\"
-.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\"
.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -17,13 +17,9 @@
.Dd $Mdocdate$
.Dt MANDOC 1
.Os
-.
-.
.Sh NAME
.Nm mandoc
.Nd format and display UNIX manuals
-.
-.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm mandoc
.Op Fl V
@@ -33,8 +29,6 @@
.Op Fl T Ns Ar output
.Op Fl W Ns Ar err
.Op Ar file...
-.
-.
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
@@ -42,14 +36,12 @@ utility formats
.Ux
manual pages for display.
The arguments are as follows:
-.
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl f Ns Ar option
Comma-separated compiler options.
See
.Sx Compiler Options
for details.
-.
.It Fl m Ns Ar format
Input format.
See
@@ -57,13 +49,11 @@ See
for available formats.
Defaults to
.Fl m Ns Cm andoc .
-.
.It Fl O Ns Ar option
Comma-separated output options.
See
.Sx Output Options
for details.
-.
.It Fl T Ns Ar output
Output format.
See
@@ -71,10 +61,8 @@ See
for available formats.
Defaults to
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii .
-.
.It Fl V
Print version and exit.
-.
.It Fl W Ns Ar err
Comma-separated warning options.
Use
@@ -87,7 +75,6 @@ Multiple
.Fl W
arguments may be comma-separated, such as
.Fl W Ns Cm error , Ns Cm all .
-.
.It Ar file
Read input from zero or more files.
If unspecified, reads from stdin.
@@ -95,7 +82,6 @@ If multiple files are specified,
.Nm
will halt with the first failed parse.
.El
-.
.Pp
By default,
.Nm
@@ -108,11 +94,8 @@ text from stdin, implying
and produces
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii
output.
-.
.Pp
.Ex -std mandoc
-.
-.
.Ss Input Formats
The
.Nm
@@ -132,7 +115,6 @@ format is
recommended;
.Xr man 7
should only be used for legacy manuals.
-.
.Pp
A third option,
.Fl m Ns Cm andoc ,
@@ -146,7 +128,6 @@ the
parser is used; otherwise, the
.Xr man 7
parser is used.
-.
.Pp
If multiple
files are specified with
@@ -158,8 +139,6 @@ specified and
or
.Fl m Ns Cm an
is specified, then this format is used exclusively.
-.
-.
.Ss Output Formats
The
.Nm
@@ -167,7 +146,6 @@ utility accepts the following
.Fl T
arguments (see
.Sx OUTPUT ) :
-.
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl T Ns Cm ascii
Produce 7-bit ASCII output, backspace-encoded for bold and underline
@@ -175,65 +153,51 @@ styles.
This is the default.
See
.Sx ASCII Output .
-.
.It Fl T Ns Cm html
Produce strict HTML-4.01 output, with a sane default style.
See
.Sx HTML Output .
-.
.It Fl T Ns Cm lint
Parse only: produce no output.
Implies
.Fl W Ns Cm all
and
.Fl f Ns Cm strict .
-.
.It Fl T Ns Cm tree
Produce an indented parse tree.
-.
.It Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
Produce strict XHTML-1.0 output, with a sane default style.
See
.Sx XHTML Output .
.El
-.
.Pp
If multiple input files are specified, these will be processed by the
corresponding filter in-order.
-.
-.
.Ss Compiler Options
Default compiler behaviour may be overridden with the
.Fl f
flag.
-.
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl f Ns Cm ign-errors
When parsing multiple files, don't halt when one errors out.
Useful with
.Fl T Ns Cm lint
over a large set of manuals passed on the command line.
-.
.It Fl f Ns Cm ign-escape
Ignore invalid escape sequences.
This is the default, but the option can be used to override an earlier
.Fl f Ns Cm strict .
-.
.It Fl f Ns Cm ign-scope
When rewinding the scope of a block macro, forces the compiler to ignore
scope violations.
This can seriously mangle the resulting tree.
.Pq mdoc only
-.
.It Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-chars
Do not ignore disallowed characters.
-.
.It Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-escape
Do not ignore invalid escape sequences.
-.
.It Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-macro
Do not ignore unknown macros at the start of input lines.
-.
.It Fl f Ns Cm strict
Implies
.Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-escape ,
@@ -241,8 +205,6 @@ Implies
and
.Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-chars .
.El
-.
-.
.Ss Output Options
For the time being, only
.Fl T Ns Ar html
@@ -286,8 +248,6 @@ is used for an external style-sheet.
This must be a valid absolute or
relative URI.
.El
-.
-.
.Sh OUTPUT
This section documents output details of
.Nm .
@@ -332,13 +292,10 @@ and
.Sq \&}
.Pc
is not preceded by white-space.
-.
.Pp
If the input is
.Xr mdoc 7 ,
however, these rules are also applied to macro arguments when appropriate.
-.
-.
.Ss ASCII Output
Output produced by
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii ,
@@ -362,8 +319,6 @@ are rendered best-effort in an ASCII equivalent.
.Pp
Output width is limited to 78 visible columns unless literal input lines
exceed this limit.
-.
-.
.Ss HTML Output
Output produced by
.Fl T Ns Cm html
@@ -381,8 +336,6 @@ cause rendered documents to appear as they do in
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii .
.Pp
Special characters are rendered in decimal-encoded UTF-8.
-.
-.
.Ss XHTML Output
Output produced by
.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
@@ -392,15 +345,11 @@ See
.Sx HTML Output
for details; beyond generating XHTML tags instead of HTML tags, these
output modes are identical.
-.
-.
.Sh EXAMPLES
To page manuals to the terminal:
-.
.Pp
.D1 $ mandoc \-Wall,error \-fstrict mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less
.D1 $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less
-.
.Pp
To produce HTML manuals with
.Ar style.css
@@ -409,19 +358,14 @@ as the style-sheet:
.D1 $ mandoc \-Thtml -Ostyle=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html
.Pp
To check over a large set of manuals:
-.
.Pp
.Dl $ mandoc \-Tlint \-fign-errors `find /usr/src -name \e*\e.[1-9]`
-.
-.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
This section summarises
.Nm
compatibility with
.Xr groff 1 .
Each input and output format is separately noted.
-.
-.
.Ss ASCII Compatibility
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
@@ -429,7 +373,6 @@ The
.Sq \e~
special character doesn't produce expected behaviour in
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii .
-.
.It
The
.Sq \&Bd \-literal
@@ -440,7 +383,6 @@ macros of
in
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii
are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.
-.
.It
In
.Xr groff 1 ,
@@ -452,7 +394,6 @@ macro does not underline when scoped under an
in the FILES section.
This behaves correctly in
.Nm .
-.
.It
A list or display following the
.Sq \&Ss
@@ -461,7 +402,6 @@ macro in
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii
does not assert a prior vertical break, just as it doesn't with
.Sq \&Sh .
-.
.It
The
.Sq \&na
@@ -469,21 +409,16 @@ The
macro in
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii
has no effect.
-.
.It
Words aren't hyphenated.
-.
.It
In normal mode (not a literal block), blocks of spaces aren't preserved,
so double spaces following sentence closure are reduced to a single space;
.Xr groff 1
retains spaces.
-.
.It
Sentences are unilaterally monospaced.
.El
-.
-.
.Ss HTML/XHTML Compatibility
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
@@ -506,7 +441,6 @@ and
.Sq \&Bl \-tag
list types render similarly (no break following overreached left-hand
side) due to the expressive constraints of HTML.
-.
.It
The
.Xr man 7
@@ -515,20 +449,15 @@ and
.Sq TP
lists render similarly.
.El
-.
-.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr man 7 ,
.Xr mandoc_char 7 ,
.Xr mdoc 7
-.
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
utility was written by
-.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@kth.se .
-.
-.
+.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@bsd.lv .
.Sh CAVEATS
The
.Fl T Ns Cm html
@@ -538,7 +467,6 @@ CSS2 styling used for
.Fl m Ns Cm doc
input lists does not render properly in older browsers, such as Internet
Explorer 6 and earlier.
-.
.Pp
In
.Fl T Ns Cm html
@@ -550,7 +478,6 @@ which is usually 1024 bytes.
Be aware of this when setting long link
formats such as
.Fl O Ns Cm style Ns = Ns Ar really/long/link .
-.
.Pp
The
.Fl T Ns Cm html
@@ -562,7 +489,6 @@ font size escape documented in
.Xr mdoc 7
and
.Xr man 7 .
-.
.Pp
Nesting elements within next-line element scopes of
.Fl m Ns Cm an ,
@@ -575,7 +501,6 @@ will confuse
and
.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
and cause them to forget the formatting of the prior next-line scope.
-.
.Pp
The
.Sq i
@@ -583,7 +508,6 @@ macro in
.Fl m Ns Cm an
should italicise all subsequent text if a line argument is not provided.
This behaviour is not implemented.
-.
The
.Sq \(aq
control character is an alias for the standard macro control character