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@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ .Nm mdocmterm .Op Fl vV .Op Fl f Ns Ar option... +.Op Fl O Ns Ar option... .Op Fl W Ns Ar err... .Op Ar infile .\" SECTION @@ -50,6 +51,15 @@ Override default compiler behaviour. See .Sx Compiler Options for details. .\" ITEM +.It Fl O Ns Ar option... +Terminal-encoding options. May be set to +.Fl O Ns Ar ansi +for ANSI/VT100-encoded output (the default) or +.Fl O Ns Ar nroff +for nroff-encoded +.Qq backspace +output. +.\" ITEM .It Fl W Ns Ar err... Print warning messages. May be set to .Fl W Ns Ar all @@ -119,30 +129,11 @@ options may be grouped and delimited with a comma. Using .Fl f Ns Ar ign-scope,ign-escape , for example, will try to ignore scope and character-escape errors. .\" SUB-SECTION -.Ss Input Encoding -The -.Nm -utility expects its input to be 7-bit ASCII as defined in -.Xr ascii 7 . -The only non-graphing characters accepted are spaces, -.Sq \ , -and tabs, -.Sq \et . -Tabs are only accepted in literal block-displays and as column -delimiters. -.Pp -Only Unix-style newlines (\en) are accepted; if the newline is escaped, -the line is concatenated with the next. -.\" SUB-SECTION .Ss Character Escapes -This section documents the character-escapes accepted by -.Xr mdocterm 1 . -Note that the \\x, \\(xx and \\[n] forms are described here; the \\*(xx, -\\*[n] and \\*x forms described in -.Xr mdoc.samples 7 -are deprecated, but still rendered. All one- and two-character -sequences may be used in the n-character sequence \\[n]. -.Pp +The following table shows all +.Xr mdoc 7 +character escapes rendered by +.Nm . Note that the .Em Output column will render differently whether executed with @@ -266,7 +257,7 @@ Special symbols: the more general syntax. .\" SECTION .Sh EXAMPLES -To display this manual page: +To display this manual page on ANSI-capable terminal: .\" PARAGRAPH .Pp .D1 % mdocmterm \-Wall,error mdocmterm.1 @@ -274,7 +265,7 @@ To display this manual page: .Pp To pipe a manual page to the pager: .Pp -.D1 % mdocterm mdocterm.1 2>&1 | less \-R +.D1 % mdocterm -Onroff mdocterm.1 | less .\" SECTION .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr mdoctree 1 , |