.\" $Id$ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above .\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. .\" .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES .\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR .\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES .\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" .Dd $Mdocdate$ .Dt MANDOC 1 .Os . . .Sh NAME .Nm mandoc .Nd format and display UNIX manuals . . .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm mandoc .Op Fl f Ns Ar option... .Op Fl m Ns Ar format .Op Fl o Ns Ar option... .Op Fl T Ns Ar output .Op Fl V .Op Fl W Ns Ar err... .Op Ar infile... . . .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm 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 .Sx Input Formats for available formats. Defaults to .Fl m Ns Ar andoc . . .It Fl o Ns Ar format Comma-separated output options. See .Sx Output Options for details. . .It Fl T Ns Ar output Output format. See .Sx Output Formats for available formats. Defaults to .Fl T Ns Ar ascii . . .It Fl V Print version and exit. . .It Fl W Ns Ar err... Comma-separated warning options. Use .Fl W Ns Ar all to print warnings, .Fl W Ns Ar error for warnings to be considered errors and cause utility termination. Multiple .Fl W arguments may be comma-separated, such as .Fl W Ns Ar error,all . . .It Ar infile... Read input from zero or more .Ar infile . If unspecified, reads from stdin. 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 Ar andoc , and prints 78-column backspace-encoded output to stdout as if .Fl T Ns Ar ascii were provided. . .Pp .Ex -std mandoc . . .Ss Punctuation and Spacing If punctuation is set apart from words, such as in the phrase .Dq to be \&, or not to be , it's processed by .Nm according to the following rules: opening punctuation .Po .Sq \&( , .Sq \&[ , and .Sq \&{ .Pc is not followed by a space; closing punctuation .Po .Sq \&. , .Sq \&, , .Sq \&; , .Sq \&: , .Sq \&? , .Sq \&! , .Sq \&) , .Sq \&] and .Sq \&} .Pc is not preceded by whitespace. . .Pp If the input is .Xr mdoc 7 , these rules are also applied to macro arguments when appropriate. . .Pp White-space, in non-literal (normal) mode, is stripped from input and replaced on output by a single space. Thus, if you wish to preserve multiple spaces, they must be space-escaped or used in a literal display mode, e.g., .Sq \&Bd \-literal in .Xr mdoc 7 . . . .Ss Input Formats The .Nm utility accepts .Xr mdoc 7 and .Xr man 7 input with .Fl m Ns Ar doc and .Fl m Ns Ar an , respectively. The .Xr mdoc 7 format is .Em strongly recommended; .Xr man 7 should only be used for legacy manuals. . .Pp A third option, .Fl m Ns Ar andoc , which is also the default, determines encoding on-the-fly: if the first non-comment macro is .Sq \&Dd or .Sq \&Dt , the .Xr mdoc 7 parser is used; otherwise, the .Xr man 7 parser is used. . .Pp If multiple files are specified with .Fl m Ns Ar andoc , each has its file-type determined this way. If multiple files are specified and .Fl m Ns Ar doc or .Fl m Ns Ar an is specified, then this format is used exclusively. . . .Ss Output Formats The .Nm utility accepts the following .Fl T arguments: . .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl T Ns Ar ascii Produce 7-bit ASCII output, backspace-encoded for bold and underline styles. This is the default. . .It Fl T Ns Ar html Produce strict HTML-4.01 output, with a sane default style. . .It Fl T Ns Ar tree Produce an indented parse tree. . .It Fl T Ns Ar lint Parse only: produce no 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 Ar 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 Ar no-ign-escape Don't ignore invalid escape sequences. . .It Fl f Ns Ar no-ign-macro Do not ignore unknown macros at the start of input lines. . .It Fl f Ns Ar no-ign-chars Do not ignore disallowed characters. . .It Fl f Ns Ar strict Implies .Fl f Ns Ar no-ign-escape , .Fl f Ns Ar no-ign-macro and .Fl f Ns Ar no-ign-chars . . .It Fl f Ns Ar ign-errors Don't halt when encountering parse errors. Useful with .Fl T Ns Ar lint over a large set of manuals passed on the command line. .El . .Ss Output Options For the time being, only .Fl T Ns Ar html is the only mode with output options: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl o Ns Ar style=style.css The file .Ar style.css is used for an external style-sheet. This must be a valid absolute or relative URI. .It Fl o Ns Ar man=fmt The string .Ar fmt , for example, .Ar ../html%S/%N.%S.html , is used as a template for linked manuals (usually via the .Sq \&Xr macro). The default is .Ar %N.%S.html . .El . .Sh EXAMPLES To page manuals to the terminal: . .Pp .D1 % mandoc \-Wall,error \-fstrict mandoc.1 2>&1 | less .D1 % mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less . .Pp To produce HTML manuals with .Pa http://localhost/ as the base URI: .Pp .D1 % mandoc \-Thtml -obase=http://localhost/ mdoc.7 > 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 output .Bl -bullet -compact .It The .Sq \e~ special character doesn't produce expected behaviour in .Fl T Ns Ar ascii . . .It The .Sq \&Bd \-literal and .Sq \&Bd \-unfilled macros of .Xr mdoc 7 in .Fl T Ns Ar ascii are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged. . .It In .Xr groff 1 , the .Sq \&Pa .Xr mdoc 7 macro does not underline when scoped under an .Sq \&It in the FILES section. This behaves correctly in .Nm . . .It A list or display following .Sq \&Ss .Xr mdoc 7 macro in .Fl T Ns Ar ascii does not assert a prior vertical break, just as it doesn't with .Sq \&Sh . . .It The .Sq \&na .Xr man 7 macro in .Fl T Ns Ar 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 .\" SECTION .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr mandoc_char 7 , .Xr mdoc 7 , .Xr man 7 . .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm utility was written by .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@kth.se . . .Sh CAVEATS In .Fl T Ns Ar html , the maximum size of an element attribute is determined by .Dv BUFSIZ , which is usually 1024 bytes. Be aware of this when setting long link formats with .Fl o Ns Ar man=fmt .