From 53e6d06c1bdbc06c38e2aedcad452d656cd4734c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:35:44 +0000
Subject: State default usage before listing arguments of a utility.  Inspired
 by a patch to mandocdb.8 by schwarze@ some time ago.  Ok jmc@.

---
 mandoc.1 | 25 +++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

(limited to 'mandoc.1')

diff --git a/mandoc.1 b/mandoc.1
index c581a5f0..778737aa 100644
--- a/mandoc.1
+++ b/mandoc.1
@@ -34,6 +34,19 @@ The
 utility formats
 .Ux
 manual pages for display.
+.Pp
+By default,
+.Nm
+reads
+.Xr mdoc 7
+or
+.Xr man 7
+text from stdin, implying
+.Fl m Ns Cm andoc ,
+and produces
+.Fl T Ns Cm ascii
+output.
+.Pp
 The arguments are as follows:
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
 .It Fl m Ns Ar format
@@ -96,18 +109,6 @@ If multiple files are specified,
 .Nm
 will halt with the first failed parse.
 .El
-.Pp
-By default,
-.Nm
-reads
-.Xr mdoc 7
-or
-.Xr man 7
-text from stdin, implying
-.Fl m Ns Cm andoc ,
-and produces
-.Fl T Ns Cm ascii
-output.
 .Ss Input Formats
 The
 .Nm
-- 
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