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.Dd $Mdocdate$
.Dt mdocterm 1
.Os
.\" SECTION
.Sh NAME
.Nm mdocmterm
.Nd mdoc macro compiler
.\" SECTION
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm mdocmterm
.Op Fl vV
.Op Fl f Ns Ar option...
.Op Fl W Ns Ar err...
.Op Ar infile
.\" SECTION
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility formats a BSD 
.Dq mdoc 
manual page for display on the terminal.  The arguments are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width XXXXXXXXXXXX
.\" ITEM
.It Fl v
Print verbose parsing output.
.\" ITEM
.It Fl v
Print version and exit.
.\" ITEM
.It Fl f Ns Ar option...
Override default compiler behaviour.  See 
.Sx Compiler Options
for details.
.\" ITEM
.It Fl W Ns Ar err...
Print warning messages.  May be set to 
.Fl W Ns Ar all
for all warnings, 
.Ar compat
for groff/troff-compatibility warnings, or
.Ar syntax
for syntax warnings.  If
.Fl W Ns Ar error 
is specified, warnings are considered errors and cause utility
termination.  Multiple 
.Fl W
arguments may be comma-separated, such as
.Fl W Ns Ar error,all .
.\" ITEM
.It Ar infile
Read input from
.Ar infile ,
which may be 
.Dq \-
for stdin.
.El
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
The
.Nm
utility is a formatting front-end for
.Xr mdoc 3 ,
which parses the 
.Dq mdoc
input, documented at
.Xr mdoc 7
and
.Xr mdoc.samples 7 ,
into an abstract syntax tree.  
.Pp
By default, 
.Nm 
reads from stdin and prints ANSI 
.Qq raw
terminal-encoded output to stdout, at this time to a fixed column with
of 78 characters.
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
.Ex -std mdocmterm
.\" SUB-SECTION
.Ss Compiler Options
Default compiler behaviour may be overriden with the
.Fl f
flag.  The available options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width XXXXXXXXXXXX -offset XXXX
.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.
.It Fl f Ns Ar ign-escape
Ignore invalid escape sequences.
.It Fl f Ns Ar ign-macro
Ignore unknown macros at the start of input lines.
.El
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
As with the
.Fl W
flag, multiple
.Fl f
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
Note that the
.Em Output
column will render differently whether executed with
.Xr mdocterm 1 
or another output filter.
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
Grammatic:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
.It Em Output
.Em Input (Name)
.It \(em
\\(em (em-dash)
.It \(en
\\(en (en-dash)
.It \-
\\- (hyphen)
.It \\
\\\\ (back-slash)
.El
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
Enclosures:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
.It Em Output
.Em Input (Name)
.It \(rC
\\(rC (right brace)
.It \(lC
\\(lC (left brace)
.It \(ra
\\(ra (right angle)
.It \(la
\\(la (left angle)
.It \(rB
\\(rB (right bracket)
.It \(lB
\\(lB (left bracket)
.It \(lq
\\(lq (left double-quote)
.It \(rq
\\(rq (right double-quote)
.It \(oq
\\(oq, \\` (left single-quote)
.It \(aq
\\(aq, \\' (right single-quote, apostrophe)
.El
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
Indicatives:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
.It Em Output
.Em Input (Name)
.It \(<-
\\(<- (left arrow)
.It \(->
\\(-> (right arrow)
.It \(ua
\\(ua (up arrow)
.It \(da
\\(da (down arrow)
.El
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
Mathematical:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
.It Em Output
.Em Input (Name)
.It \(<=
\\(<= (less-than-equal)
.It \(>=
\\(>= (greater-than-equal)
.It \(==
\\(== (equal)
.It \(!=
\\(!= (not equal)
.It \(if
\\(if (infinity)
.It \(na
\\(na (NaN)*
.It \(+-
\\(+- (plus-minus)
.It \(**
\\(** (asterisk)
.El
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
Diacritics:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
.It Em Output
.Em Input (Name)
.It \(ga
\\(ga (accent grave)
.It \(aa
\\(aa (accent accute)
.El
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
Special symbols:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
.It Em Output
.Em Input (Name)
.It \(bu
\\(bu (bullet)
.It \(ba
\\(ba (bar)
.It \(co
\\(co (copyright)
.El 
.Pp
*This is a deviation from the standard, as NaN is usually rendered as
\\*(Na, which is a deprecated form.  We introduce \\(na, which follows
the more general syntax.
.\" SECTION
.Sh EXAMPLES
To display this manual page:
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
.D1 % mdocmterm \-Wall,error mdocmterm.1 
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
To pipe a manual page to the pager:
.Pp
.D1 % mdocterm mdocterm.1 2>&1 | less \-R
.\" SECTION
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mdoctree 1 ,
.Xr mdoclint 1 ,
.Xr mdoc.samples 7 ,
.Xr mdoc 7 ,
.Xr mdoc 3
.\" 
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
utility was written by 
.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@kth.se .
.\" SECTION
.Sh CAVEATS
See
.Xr mdoc 3
for a list of bugs, caveats, and incomplete macros regarding the
document parse.
.Pp
The 
.Nm
utility doesn't yet know how to display the following:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
The \-hang 
.Sq \&Bl
list is not yet supported.
.It
The \-literal and \-unfilled 
.Sq \&Bd
displays only accept text contents.
.It
The
.Sq \&Xo/Xc
pair isn't supported (and never will be).
.It
The
.Sq \&Sm
macro has no effect, yet.
.El