Initial, incomplete support for -Tman

to convert mdoc(7) documents to the man(7) language.
This is work in progress and will be developed in tree.
It does already handle the cat(1) manual,
but will hardly handle all your fancy manuals yet.
go ahead  kristaps@ jmc@ millert@ deraadt@

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diff --git a/mandoc.1 b/mandoc.1
index 184247e8..e9b3639b 100644
--- a/mandoc.1
+++ b/mandoc.1
@@ -179,6 +179,12 @@ See
 Parse only: produce no output.
 Implies
 .Fl W Ns Cm warning .
+.It Fl T Ns Cm man
+Produce output in
+.Xr man 7
+format; only useful when applied to
+.Fl m Ns Cm doc
+input.
 .It Fl T Ns Cm pdf
 Produce PDF output.
 See
@@ -417,6 +423,16 @@ To check over a large set of manuals:
 To produce a series of PostScript manuals for A4 paper:
 .Pp
 .Dl $ mandoc \-Tps \-Opaper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps
+.Pp
+Convert a modern
+.Xr mdoc 7
+manual to the older
+.Xr man 7
+format, for use on systems lacking an
+.Xr mdoc 7
+parser:
+.Pp
+.Dl $ mandoc \-Tman foo.mdoc \*(Gt foo.man
 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 Standard error messages reporting parsing errors are prefixed by
 .Pp