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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-.\"    $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.96 2011/10/06 23:05:55 kristaps Exp $
+.\"    $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.105 2014/06/23 22:03:30 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
 .\"
 .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
 .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 6 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 23 2014 $
 .Dt MANDOC 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -23,6 +24,9 @@
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm mandoc
 .Op Fl V
+.Sm off
+.Op Fl I Cm os Li = Ar name
+.Sm on
 .Op Fl m Ns Ar format
 .Op Fl O Ns Ar option
 .Op Fl T Ns Ar output
@@ -34,8 +38,30 @@ 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
+.Sm off
+.It Fl I Cm os Li = Ar name
+.Sm on
+Override the default operating system
+.Ar name
+for the
+.Xr mdoc 7
+.Sq \&Os
+macro.
 .It Fl m Ns Ar format
 Input format.
 See
@@ -96,18 +122,6 @@ 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
@@ -234,6 +248,15 @@ The following
 .Fl O
 arguments are accepted:
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Cm indent Ns = Ns Ar indent
+The left margin for normal text is set to
+.Ar indent
+blank characters instead of the default of five for
+.Xr mdoc 7
+and seven for
+.Xr man 7 .
+Increasing this is not recommended; it may result in degraded formatting,
+for example overfull lines or ugly line breaks.
 .It Cm width Ns = Ns Ar width
 The output width is set to
 .Ar width ,
@@ -260,10 +283,19 @@ The following
 arguments are accepted:
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
 .It Cm fragment
-Do not emit doctype, html, and body elements.
+Omit the
+.Aq !DOCTYPE
+declaration and the
+.Aq html ,
+.Aq head ,
+and
+.Aq body
+elements and only emit the subtree below the
+.Aq body
+element.
 The
 .Cm style
-argument shall be unused.
+argument will be ignored.
 This is useful when embedding manual content within existing documents.
 .It Cm includes Ns = Ns Ar fmt
 The string
@@ -315,7 +347,7 @@ for font style specification and available command-line arguments.
 Translate input format into
 .Xr man 7
 output format.
-This is useful for distributing manual sources to legancy systems
+This is useful for distributing manual sources to legacy systems
 lacking
 .Xr mdoc 7
 formatters.
@@ -323,14 +355,18 @@ formatters.
 If
 .Xr mdoc 7
 is passed as input, it is translated into
-.Xr man 7 ;
-if the input format is
+.Xr man 7 .
+If the input format is
 .Xr man 7 ,
-it is parsed and re-outputted.
-In either case, the
+the input is copied to the output, expanding any
 .Xr roff 7
 .Sq so
-macros are processed prior to producing output.
+requests.
+The parser is also run, and as usual, the
+.Fl W
+level controls which
+.Sx DIAGNOSTICS
+are displayed before copying the input to the output.
 .Ss PDF Output
 PDF-1.1 output may be generated by
 .Fl T Ns Cm pdf .
@@ -462,9 +498,7 @@ parser:
 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 Standard error messages reporting parsing errors are prefixed by
 .Pp
-.Sm off
-.D1 Ar file : line : column : \ level :
-.Sm on
+.D1 Nm Ns : Ar file : Ns Ar line : Ns Ar column : level :
 .Pp
 where the fields have the following meanings:
 .Bl -tag -width "column"
@@ -482,8 +516,17 @@ points to the first character of the word.
 The message level, printed in capital letters.
 .El
 .Pp
+The
+.Ar line
+and
+.Ar column
+fields are omitted when meaningless.
+.Pp
 Message levels have the following meanings:
 .Bl -tag -width "warning"
+.It Cm syserr
+Opening or reading an input file failed, so the parser cannot
+even be started and no output is produced from that input file.
 .It Cm fatal
 The parser is unable to parse a given input file at all.
 No formatted output is produced from that input file.
@@ -519,9 +562,8 @@ output mode.
 The
 .Nm
 utility may also print messages related to invalid command line arguments
-or operating system errors, for example when memory is exhausted or
-input files cannot be read.
-Such messages do not carry the prefix described above.
+or operating system errors, for example when memory is exhausted.
+Such messages may not carry the prefix described above.
 .Sh COMPATIBILITY
 This section summarises
 .Nm
@@ -614,8 +656,7 @@ lists render similarly.
 The
 .Nm
 utility was written by
-.An Kristaps Dzonsons ,
-.Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .
+.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .
 .Sh CAVEATS
 In
 .Fl T Ns Cm html