Character-escape addition simplified (see README.addescape, also added).

[mandoc.git] / mdocterm.1

diff --git a/mdocterm.1 b/mdocterm.1
index 2f7d71936d6914b43f688eb8be705c13db6078e1..e104a51dd734f4554f79255e6477326524625682 100644 (file)
--- a/mdocterm.1
+++ b/mdocterm.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: mdocterm.1,v 1.1 2009/02/21 21:00:06 kristaps Exp $
+.\" $Id: mdocterm.1,v 1.10 2009/03/03 21:07:01 kristaps Exp $

 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
 .\"
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
 .\"


@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 .\" TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
 .\" PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
 .\" TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
 .\" PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"

-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 21 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 3 2009 $

 .Dt mdocmterm 1
 .Os
 .\" SECTION
 .Dt mdocmterm 1
 .Os
 .\" SECTION


@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ which may be
 for stdin.
 .El
 .\" PARAGRAPH
 for stdin.
 .El
 .\" PARAGRAPH

+.Pp

 The
 .Nm
 utility is a formatting front-end for
 The
 .Nm
 utility is a formatting front-end for


@@ -88,15 +89,142 @@ reads from stdin and prints terminal-encoded output to stdout.
 .Nm
 is
 .Ud
 .Nm
 is
 .Ud

+.\" 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 \(rB
+\\(rB (right bracket)
+.It \(lB
+\\(rB (left bracket)
+.It \(lq
+\\(lq (left double-quote)
+.It \(rq
+\\(rq, \\' (right double-quote)
+.It \(oq
+\\(lq, \\` (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 \(==
+\\(== (greater-than-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 
 .\" 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 | less -R

 .\" SECTION
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr mdoctree 1 ,
 .\" SECTION
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr mdoctree 1 ,

+.Xr mdoclint 1 ,

 .Xr mdoc.samples 7 ,
 .Xr mdoc 7 ,
 .Xr mdoc 3
 .Xr mdoc.samples 7 ,
 .Xr mdoc 7 ,
 .Xr mdoc 3


@@ -110,4 +238,24 @@ utility was written by
 .Sh CAVEATS
 See
 .Xr mdoc 3
 .Sh CAVEATS
 See
 .Xr mdoc 3

-for a list of bugs, caveats, and incomplete macros.
+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
+Only \-bullet , \-dash , \-enum , \-hyphen , \-tag and \-ohang
+.Sq \&Bl
+lists are 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).
+.El