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-.Dd $Mdocdate: April 12 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 25 2010 $
.Dt MANDOC 1
.Os
-.
-.
.Sh NAME
.Nm mandoc
.Nd format and display UNIX manuals
-.
-.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm mandoc
.Op Fl V
.Op Fl T Ns Ar output
.Op Fl W Ns Ar err
.Op Ar file...
-.
-.
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
.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
for available formats.
Defaults to
.Fl m Ns Cm andoc .
-.
.It Fl O Ns Ar option
Comma-separated output options.
-See
-.Sx Output Options
-for details.
-.
.It Fl T Ns Ar output
Output format.
See
for available formats.
Defaults to
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii .
-.
.It Fl V
Print version and exit.
-.
.It Fl W Ns Ar err
Comma-separated warning options.
Use
.Fl W
arguments may be comma-separated, such as
.Fl W Ns Cm error , Ns Cm all .
-.
.It Ar file
Read input from zero or more files.
If unspecified, reads from stdin.
.Nm
will halt with the first failed parse.
.El
-.
.Pp
By default,
.Nm
and produces
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii
output.
-.
.Pp
.Ex -std mandoc
-.
-.
.Ss Input Formats
The
.Nm
recommended;
.Xr man 7
should only be used for legacy manuals.
-.
.Pp
A third option,
.Fl m Ns Cm andoc ,
parser is used; otherwise, the
.Xr man 7
parser is used.
-.
.Pp
If multiple
files are specified with
or
.Fl m Ns Cm an
is specified, then this format is used exclusively.
-.
-.
+.Ss Compiler Options
+Default
+.Xr mdoc 7
+and
+.Xr man 7
+compilation behaviour may be overridden with the
+.Fl f
+flag.
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl f Ns Cm ign-errors
+When parsing multiple files, don't halt when one errors out.
+Useful with
+.Fl T Ns Cm lint
+over a large set of manuals passed on the command line.
+.It Fl f Ns Cm ign-escape
+Ignore invalid escape sequences.
+This is the default, but the option can be used to override an earlier
+.Fl f Ns Cm strict .
+.It Fl f Ns Cm 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 Cm no-ign-escape
+Do not ignore invalid escape sequences.
+.It Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-macro
+Do not ignore unknown macros at the start of input lines.
+.It Fl f Ns Cm strict
+Implies
+.Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-escape
+and
+.Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-macro .
+.El
.Ss Output Formats
The
.Nm
utility accepts the following
.Fl T
-arguments (see
-.Sx OUTPUT ) :
-.
+arguments, which correspond to output modes:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl T Ns Cm ascii
Produce 7-bit ASCII output, backspace-encoded for bold and underline
This is the default.
See
.Sx ASCII Output .
-.
.It Fl T Ns Cm html
Produce strict HTML-4.01 output, with a sane default style.
See
.Sx HTML Output .
-.
.It Fl T Ns Cm lint
Parse only: produce no output.
Implies
.Fl W Ns Cm all
and
.Fl f Ns Cm strict .
-.
+.It Fl T Ns Cm pdf
+Produce PDF output.
+See
+.Sx PDF Output .
+.It Fl T Ns Cm ps
+Produce PostScript output.
+See
+.Sx PostScript Output .
.It Fl T Ns Cm tree
Produce an indented parse tree.
-.
.It Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
Produce strict XHTML-1.0 output, with a sane default style.
See
.Sx XHTML 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 Cm ign-errors
-When parsing multiple files, don't halt when one errors out.
-Useful with
-.Fl T Ns Cm lint
-over a large set of manuals passed on the command line.
-.
-.It Fl f Ns Cm ign-escape
-Ignore invalid escape sequences.
-This is the default, but the option can be used to override an earlier
-.Fl f Ns Cm strict .
-.
-.It Fl f Ns Cm 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 Cm no-ign-chars
-Do not ignore disallowed characters.
-.
-.It Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-escape
-Do not ignore invalid escape sequences.
-.
-.It Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-macro
-Do not ignore unknown macros at the start of input lines.
-.
-.It Fl f Ns Cm strict
-Implies
-.Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-escape ,
-.Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-macro ,
-and
-.Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-chars .
-.El
-.
-.
-.Ss Output Options
-For the time being, only
-.Fl T Ns Ar html
-and
-.Fl T Ns Ar xhtml
-accept output options:
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Fl O Ns Cm includes Ns = Ns Ar fmt
-The string
-.Ar fmt ,
-for example,
-.Ar ../src/%I.html ,
-is used as a template for linked header files (usually via the
-.Sq \&In
-macro).
-Instances of
-.Sq \&%I
-are replaced with the include filename.
-The default is not to present a
-hyperlink.
-.It Fl O Ns Cm man Ns = Ns Ar 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).
-Instances of
-.Sq \&%N
-and
-.Sq %S
-are replaced with the linked manual's name and section, respectively.
-If no section is included, section 1 is assumed.
-The default is not to
-present a hyperlink.
-.It Fl O Ns Cm style Ns = Ns Ar style.css
-The file
-.Ar style.css
-is used for an external style-sheet.
-This must be a valid absolute or
-relative URI.
-.El
-.
-.
-.Sh OUTPUT
-This section documents output details of
-.Nm .
-In general, output conforms to the traditional manual style of a header,
-a body composed of sections and sub-sections, and a footer.
-.Pp
-The text style of output characters (non-macro characters, punctuation,
-and white-space) is dictated by context.
-.Pp
-White-space is generally stripped from input.
-This can be changed with
-character escapes (specified in
-.Xr mandoc_char 7 )
-or literal modes (specified in
-.Xr mdoc 7
-and
-.Xr man 7 ) .
-.Pp
-If non-macro punctuation is set apart from words, such as in the phrase
-.Dq to be \&, or not to be ,
-it's processed by
-.Nm ,
-regardless of output format, 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 white-space.
-.
-.Pp
-If the input is
-.Xr mdoc 7 ,
-however, these rules are also applied to macro arguments when appropriate.
-.
-.
.Ss ASCII Output
Output produced by
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii ,
.Pp
Output width is limited to 78 visible columns unless literal input lines
exceed this limit.
-.
-.
+.Pp
+The following
+.Fl O
+arguments are accepted:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Cm width Ns = Ns Ar width
+The output width is set to
+.Ar width ,
+which will normalise to \(>=60.
+.El
.Ss HTML Output
Output produced by
.Fl T Ns Cm html
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii .
.Pp
Special characters are rendered in decimal-encoded UTF-8.
-.
-.
+.Pp
+The following
+.Fl O
+arguments are accepted:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Cm includes Ns = Ns Ar fmt
+The string
+.Ar fmt ,
+for example,
+.Ar ../src/%I.html ,
+is used as a template for linked header files (usually via the
+.Sq \&In
+macro).
+Instances of
+.Sq \&%I
+are replaced with the include filename.
+The default is not to present a
+hyperlink.
+.It Cm man Ns = Ns Ar 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).
+Instances of
+.Sq \&%N
+and
+.Sq %S
+are replaced with the linked manual's name and section, respectively.
+If no section is included, section 1 is assumed.
+The default is not to
+present a hyperlink.
+.It Cm style Ns = Ns Ar style.css
+The file
+.Ar style.css
+is used for an external style-sheet.
+This must be a valid absolute or
+relative URI.
+.El
+.Ss PostScript Output
+PostScript
+.Qq Adobe-3.0
+Level-2 pages may be generated by
+.Fl T Ns Cm ps .
+Output pages default to letter sized and are rendered in the Times font
+family, 11-point.
+Margins are calculated as 1/9 the page length and width.
+Line-height is 1.4m.
+.Pp
+Special characters are rendered as in
+.Sx ASCII Output .
+.Pp
+The following
+.Fl O
+arguments are accepted:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Cm paper Ns = Ns Ar name
+The paper size
+.Ar name
+may be one of
+.Ar a3 ,
+.Ar a4 ,
+.Ar a5 ,
+.Ar legal ,
+or
+.Ar letter .
+You may also manually specify dimensions as
+.Ar NNxNN ,
+width by height in millimetres.
+If an unknown value is encountered,
+.Ar letter
+is used.
+.El
+.Ss PDF Output
+PDF-1.1 output may be generated by
+.Fl T Ns Cm pdf .
+See
+.Sx PostScript Output
+for
+.Fl O
+arguments and defaults.
.Ss XHTML Output
Output produced by
.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
.Sx HTML Output
for details; beyond generating XHTML tags instead of HTML tags, these
output modes are identical.
-.
-.
.Sh EXAMPLES
To page manuals to the terminal:
-.
.Pp
.D1 $ mandoc \-Wall,error \-fstrict mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less
.D1 $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less
-.
.Pp
To produce HTML manuals with
.Ar style.css
.D1 $ mandoc \-Thtml -Ostyle=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt 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]`
-.
-.
+.Pp
+To produce a series of PostScript manuals for A4 paper:
+.Pp
+.D1 $ mandoc \-Tps \-Opaper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
This section summarises
.Nm
compatibility with
.Xr groff 1 .
Each input and output format is separately noted.
-.
-.
.Ss ASCII Compatibility
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
.Sq \e~
special character doesn't produce expected behaviour in
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii .
-.
.It
The
.Sq \&Bd \-literal
in
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii
are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.
-.
.It
In
.Xr groff 1 ,
in the FILES section.
This behaves correctly in
.Nm .
-.
.It
A list or display following the
.Sq \&Ss
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii
does not assert a prior vertical break, just as it doesn't with
.Sq \&Sh .
-.
.It
The
.Sq \&na
macro in
.Fl T Ns Cm 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
-.
-.
.Ss HTML/XHTML Compatibility
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
.Sq \&Bl \-tag
list types render similarly (no break following overreached left-hand
side) due to the expressive constraints of HTML.
-.
.It
The
.Xr man 7
.Sq TP
lists render similarly.
.El
-.
-.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr man 7 ,
.Xr mandoc_char 7 ,
.Xr mdoc 7
-.
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
utility was written by
-.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@kth.se .
-.
-.
+.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@bsd.lv .
.Sh CAVEATS
The
.Fl T Ns Cm html
.Fl m Ns Cm doc
input lists does not render properly in older browsers, such as Internet
Explorer 6 and earlier.
-.
.Pp
In
.Fl T Ns Cm html
Be aware of this when setting long link
formats such as
.Fl O Ns Cm style Ns = Ns Ar really/long/link .
-.
.Pp
The
.Fl T Ns Cm html
.Xr mdoc 7
and
.Xr man 7 .
-.
.Pp
Nesting elements within next-line element scopes of
.Fl m Ns Cm an ,
and
.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
and cause them to forget the formatting of the prior next-line scope.
-.
.Pp
The
.Sq i
.Fl m Ns Cm an
should italicise all subsequent text if a line argument is not provided.
This behaviour is not implemented.
-.
The
.Sq \(aq
control character is an alias for the standard macro control character
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