mdocterm.1

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  19 .Dd $Mdocdate: March 3 2009 $
  20 .Dt mdocmterm 1
  21 .Os
  22 .\" SECTION
  23 .Sh NAME
  24 .Nm mdocmterm
  25 .Nd mdoc macro compiler
  26 .\" SECTION
  27 .Sh SYNOPSIS
  28 .Nm mdocmterm
  29 .Op Fl v
  30 .Op Fl W Ns Ar err...
  31 .Op Ar infile
  32 .\" SECTION
  33 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  34 The
  35 .Nm
  36 utility formats a BSD
  37 .Dq mdoc
  38 manual page for display on the terminal.  The arguments are as follows:
  39 .Bl -tag -width "\-Werr... "
  40 .\" ITEM
  41 .It Fl v
  42 Print verbose parsing output.
  43 .\" ITEM
  44 .It Fl W Ns Ar err...
  45 Print warning messages.  May be set to
  46 .Fl W Ns Ar all
  47 for all warnings,
  48 .Ar compat
  49 for groff/troff-compatibility warnings, or
  50 .Ar syntax
  51 for syntax warnings.  If
  52 .Fl W Ns Ar error
  53 is specified, warnings are considered errors and cause utility
  54 termination.  Multiple
  55 .Fl W
  56 arguments may be comma-separated, such as
  57 .Fl W Ns Ar error,all .
  58 .\" ITEM
  59 .It Ar infile
  60 Read input from
  61 .Ar infile ,
  62 which may be
  63 .Dq \-
  64 for stdin.
  65 .El
  66 .\" PARAGRAPH
  67 .Pp
  68 The
  69 .Nm
  70 utility is a formatting front-end for
  71 .Xr mdoc 3 ,
  72 which parses the
  73 .Dq mdoc
  74 input, documented at
  75 .Xr mdoc 7
  76 and
  77 .Xr mdoc.samples 7 ,
  78 into an abstract syntax tree.
  79 .\" PARAGRAPH
  80 .Pp
  81 By default,
  82 .Nm
  83 reads from stdin and prints terminal-encoded output to stdout.
  84 .\" PARAGRAPH
  85 .Pp
  86 .Ex -std mdocmterm
  87 .\" PARAGRAPH
  88 .Pp
  89 .Nm
  90 is
  91 .Ud
  92 .\" SUB-SECTION
  93 .Ss Character Escapes
  94 This section documents the character-escapes accepted by
  95 .Xr mdocterm 1 .
  96 Note that the \\x, \\(xx and \\[n] forms are described here; the \\*(xx,
  97 \\*[n] and \\*x forms described in
  98 .Xr mdoc.samples 7
  99 are deprecated, but still rendered.  All one- and two-character
 100 sequences may be used in the n-character sequence \\[n].
 101 .Pp
 102 Note that the
 103 .Em Output
 104 column will render differently whether executed with
 105 .Xr mdocterm 1
 106 or another output filter.
 107 .\" PARAGRAPH
 108 .Pp
 109 Grammatic:
 110 .Pp
 111 .Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
 112 .It Em Output
 113 .Em Input (Name)
 114 .It \(em
 115 \\(em (em-dash)
 116 .It \(en
 117 \\(en (en-dash)
 118 .It \-
 119 \\- (hyphen)
 120 .It \\
 121 \\ (back-slash)
 122 .El
 123 .\" PARAGRAPH
 124 .Pp
 125 Enclosures:
 126 .Pp
 127 .Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
 128 .It Em Output
 129 .Em Input (Name)
 130 .It \(rB
 131 \\(rB (right bracket)
 132 .It \(lB
 133 \\(rB (left bracket)
 134 .It \(lq
 135 \\(lq (left double-quote)
 136 .It \(rq
 137 \\(rq, \\' (right double-quote)
 138 .It \(oq
 139 \\(lq, \\` (left single-quote)
 140 .It \(aq
 141 \\(aq (right single-quote, apostrophe)
 142 .El
 143 .\" PARAGRAPH
 144 .Pp
 145 Indicatives:
 146 .Pp
 147 .Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
 148 .It Em Output
 149 .Em Input (Name)
 150 .It \(<-
 151 \\(<- (left arrow)
 152 .It \(->
 153 \\(-> (right arrow)
 154 .It \(ua
 155 \\(ua (up arrow)
 156 .It \(da
 157 \\(da (down arrow)
 158 .El
 159 .\" PARAGRAPH
 160 .Pp
 161 Mathematical:
 162 .Pp
 163 .Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
 164 .It Em Output
 165 .Em Input (Name)
 166 .It \(<=
 167 \\(<= (less-than-equal)
 168 .It \(>=
 169 \\(>= (greater-than-equal)
 170 .It \(==
 171 \\(== (greater-than-equal)
 172 .It \(!=
 173 \\(!= (not equal)
 174 .It \(if
 175 \\(if (infinity)
 176 .It \(na
 177 \\(na (NaN)*
 178 .It \(+-
 179 \\(+- (plus-minus)
 180 .It \(**
 181 \\(** (asterisk)
 182 .El
 183 .\" PARAGRAPH
 184 .Pp
 185 Diacritics:
 186 .Pp
 187 .Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
 188 .It Em Output
 189 .Em Input (Name)
 190 .It \(ga
 191 \\(ga (accent grave)
 192 .It \(aa
 193 \\(aa (accent accute)
 194 .El
 195 .\" PARAGRAPH
 196 .Pp
 197 Special symbols:
 198 .Pp
 199 .Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
 200 .It Em Output
 201 .Em Input (Name)
 202 .It \(bu
 203 \\(bu (bullet)
 204 .It \(ba
 205 \\(ba (bar)
 206 .It \(co
 207 \\(co (copyright)
 208 .El
 209 .Pp
 210 *This is a deviation from the standard, as NaN is usually rendered as
 211 \\*(Na, which is a deprecated form.  We introduce \\(na, which follows
 212 the more general syntax.
 213 .\" SECTION
 214 .Sh EXAMPLES
 215 To display this manual page:
 216 .\" PARAGRAPH
 217 .Pp
 218 .D1 % mdocmterm \-Wall,error mdocmterm.1
 219 .\" PARAGRAPH
 220 .Pp
 221 To pipe a manual page to the pager:
 222 .Pp
 223 .D1 % mdocterm mdocterm.1 | less -R
 224 .\" SECTION
 225 .Sh SEE ALSO
 226 .Xr mdoctree 1 ,
 227 .Xr mdoclint 1 ,
 228 .Xr mdoc.samples 7 ,
 229 .Xr mdoc 7 ,
 230 .Xr mdoc 3
 231 .\"
 232 .Sh AUTHORS
 233 The
 234 .Nm
 235 utility was written by
 236 .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@kth.se .
 237 .\" SECTION
 238 .Sh CAVEATS
 239 See
 240 .Xr mdoc 3
 241 for a list of bugs, caveats, and incomplete macros regarding the
 242 document parse.
 243 .Pp
 244 The
 245 .Nm
 246 utility doesn't yet know how to display the following:
 247 .Pp
 248 .Bl -bullet -compact
 249 .It
 250 Only \-bullet , \-dash , \-enum , \-hyphen , \-tag and \-ohang
 251 .Sq \&Bl
 252 lists are supported.
 253 .It
 254 The \-literal and \-unfilled
 255 .Sq \&Bd
 256 displays only accept text contents.
 257 .It
 258 The
 259 .Sq \&Xo/Xc
 260 pair isn't supported (and never will be).
 261 .El