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-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 15 2020 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 14 2021 $
.Dt MANDOC 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
If the standard output is a terminal device and
.Fl c
is not specified, use
-.Xr more 1
+.Xr less 1
to paginate the output, just like
.Xr man 1
would.
.It Fl c
Copy the formatted manual pages to the standard output without using
-.Xr more 1
+.Xr less 1
to paginate them.
This is the default.
It can be specified to override
input files in
.Xr mdoc 7
output style.
-Specifically, this suppresses the two additional blank lines near the
-top and the bottom of each page, and it implies
+This prints the operating system name rather than the page title
+on the right side of the footer line, and it implies
.Fl O Cm indent Ns =5 .
One useful application is for checking that
.Fl T Cm man
MANPAGER='w3m -T text/html' man -T html -O tag=toc mandoc
.Ed
.Pp
-This argument does not work with
+Consequently, for HTML output, this argument does not work with
.Xr more 1
or
.Xr less 1 .
+For example,
+.Ql MANPAGER=less man -T html -O tag=toc mandoc
+does not work because
+.Xr less 1
+does not support
+.Ic file://
+URIs.
.It Cm toc
If an input file contains at least two non-standard sections,
print a table of contents near the beginning of the output.
.Pp
If the input format of a file is
.Xr man 7 ,
-the input is copied to the output, expanding any
-.Xr roff 7
-.Ic so
-requests.
+the input is copied to the output.
The parser is also run, and as usual, the
.Fl W
level controls which
Any non-empty value of the environment variable
.Ev MANPAGER
is used instead of the standard pagination program,
-.Xr more 1 ;
+.Xr less 1 ;
see
.Xr man 1
for details.
.Ev MANPAGER
is not defined.
If neither PAGER nor MANPAGER is defined,
-.Xr more 1
-.Fl s
+.Xr less 1
is used.
Only used if
.Fl a
or
.Ic NetBSD
keyword substitution as conventionally used in these operating systems.
-.It Sy "referenced manual not found"
-.Pq mdoc
-An
-.Ic \&Xr
-macro references a manual page that is not found in the base system.
-The path to look for base system manuals is configurable at compile
-time and defaults to
-.Pa /usr/share/man : /usr/X11R6/man .
.El
.Ss Style suggestions
.Bl -ohang
entries describing the same
.Ic \&Er
number.
+.It Sy "referenced manual not found"
+.Pq mdoc
+An
+.Ic \&Xr
+macro references a manual page that was not found.
+When running with
+.Fl W Cm base ,
+the search is restricted to the base system, by default to
+.Pa /usr/share/man : Ns Pa /usr/X11R6/man .
+This path can be configured at compile time using the
+.Dv MANPATH_BASE
+preprocessor macro.
+When running with
+.Fl W Cm style ,
+the search is done along the full search path as described in the
+.Xr man 1
+manual page, respecting the
+.Fl m
+and
+.Fl M
+command line options, the
+.Ev MANPATH
+environment variable, the
+.Xr man.conf 5
+file and falling back to the default of
+.Pa /usr/share/man : Ns Pa /usr/X11R6/man : Ns Pa /usr/local/man ,
+also configurable at compile time using the
+.Dv MANPATH_DEFAULT
+preprocessor macro.
.It Sy "trailing delimiter"
.Pq mdoc
The last argument of an
request occurs even though the document already switched to no-fill mode
and did not switch back to fill mode yet.
It has no effect.
+.It Sy "input text line longer than 80 bytes"
+Consider breaking the input text line
+at one of the blank characters before column 80.
.It Sy "verbatim \(dq--\(dq, maybe consider using \e(em"
.Pq mdoc
Even though the ASCII output device renders an em-dash as
A table layout specification contains an opening parenthesis,
but no matching closing parenthesis.
The rest of the input line, starting from the parenthesis, has no effect.
+.It Sy "ignoring excessive spacing in tbl layout"
+.Pq tbl
+A spacing modifier in a table layout is unreasonably large.
+The default spacing of 3n is used instead.
.It Sy "tbl without any data cells"
.Pq tbl
A table does not contain any data cells.
macro or of an undefined macro.
The macro is ignored, and its arguments are handled
as if they were a text line.
+.It Sy "skipping tbl in -Tman mode"
+.Pq mdoc , tbl
+An input file contains the
+.Ic \&TS
+macro.
+This message is only generated in
+.Fl T Cm man
+output mode, where
+.Xr tbl 7
+input is not supported.
+.It Sy "skipping eqn in -Tman mode"
+.Pq mdoc , eqn
+An input file contains the
+.Ic \&EQ
+macro.
+This message is only generated in
+.Fl T Cm man
+output mode, where
+.Xr eqn 7
+input is not supported.
.El
.Ss Bad command line arguments
.Bl -ohang
.Fl O Cm tag
option was specified but the tag was not found in any of the displayed
manual pages.
+.It Sy "\-Tmarkdown unsupported for man(7) input"
+.Pq man
+The
+.Fl T Cm markdown
+option was specified but an input file uses the
+.Xr man 7
+language.
+No output is produced for that input file.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr apropos 1 ,
git.ckatri.com / mandoc.git / blobdiff