-.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.74 2010/08/07 17:46:39 kristaps Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: August 7 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 20 2010 $
.Dt MANDOC 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm mandoc
.Op Fl V
-.Op Fl f Ns Ar option
.Op Fl m Ns Ar format
.Op Fl O Ns Ar option
.Op Fl T Ns Ar output
-.Op Fl W Ns Ar err
+.Op Fl W Ns Ar level
.Op Ar file...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
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
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii .
.It Fl V
Print version and exit.
-.It Fl W Ns Ar err
-Comma-separated warning options.
-Use
+.It Fl W Ns Ar level
+Specify the minimum message
+.Ar level
+to be reported on the standard error output and to affect the exit status.
+The
+.Ar level
+can be
+.Cm warning ,
+.Cm error ,
+or
+.Cm fatal .
+The default is
+.Fl W Ns Cm fatal ;
.Fl W Ns Cm all
-to print warnings,
-.Fl W Ns Cm error
-for warnings to be considered errors and cause utility
-termination.
-Multiple
-.Fl W
-arguments may be comma-separated, such as
-.Fl W Ns Cm error , Ns Cm all .
+is an alias for
+.Fl W Ns Cm warning .
+See
+.Sx EXIT STATUS
+and
+.Sx DIAGNOSTICS
+for details.
+.Pp
+The special option
+.Fl W Ns Cm stop
+tells
+.Nm
+to exit after parsing a file that causes warnings or errors of at least
+the requested level.
+No formatted output will be produced from that file.
+If both a
+.Ar level
+and
+.Cm stop
+are requested, they can be joined with a comma, for example
+.Fl W Ns Cm error , Ns Cm stop .
.It Ar file
Read input from zero or more files.
If unspecified, reads from stdin.
and produces
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii
output.
-.Pp
-.Ex -std mandoc
.Ss Input Formats
The
.Nm
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
.It Fl T Ns Cm lint
Parse only: produce no output.
Implies
-.Fl W Ns Cm all
-and
-.Fl f Ns Cm strict .
+.Fl W Ns Cm warning .
.It Fl T Ns Cm pdf
Produce PDF output.
See
.Sx HTML Output
for details; beyond generating XHTML tags instead of HTML tags, these
output modes are identical.
+.Sh EXIT STATUS
+The
+.Nm
+utility exits with one of the following values, controlled by the message
+.Ar level
+associated with the
+.Fl W
+option:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
+.It 0
+No warnings or errors occurred, or those that did were ignored because
+they were lower than the requested
+.Ar level .
+.It 2
+At least one warning occurred, but no error, and
+.Fl W Ns Cm warning
+was specified.
+.It 3
+At least one parsing error occurred, but no fatal error, and
+.Fl W Ns Cm error
+or
+.Fl W Ns Cm warning
+was specified.
+.It 4
+A fatal parsing error occurred.
+.It 5
+Invalid command line arguments were specified.
+No input files have been read.
+.It 6
+An operating system error occurred, for example memory exhaustion or an
+error accessing input files.
+Such errors cause
+.Nm
+to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or formatting a file.
+.El
+.Pp
+Note that selecting
+.Fl T Ns Cm lint
+output mode implies
+.Fl W Ns Cm warning .
.Sh EXAMPLES
To page manuals to the terminal:
.Pp
-.D1 $ mandoc \-Wall,error \-fstrict mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less
+.D1 $ mandoc \-Wall,stop mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less
.D1 $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less
.Pp
To produce HTML manuals with
.Pp
To check over a large set of manuals:
.Pp
-.Dl $ mandoc \-Tlint \-fign-errors `find /usr/src -name \e*\e.[1-9]`
+.Dl $ mandoc \-Tlint `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 DIAGNOSTICS
+Standard error messages reporting parsing errors are prefixed by
+.Pp
+.Sm off
+.D1 Ar file : line : column : \ level :
+.Sm on
+.Pp
+where the fields have the following meanings:
+.Bl -tag -width "column"
+.It Ar file
+The name of the input file causing the message.
+.It Ar line
+The line number in that input file.
+Line numbering starts at 1.
+.It Ar column
+The column number in that input file.
+Column numbering starts at 1.
+If the issue is caused by a word, the column number usually
+points to the first character of the word.
+.It Ar level
+The message level, printed in capital letters.
+.El
+.Pp
+Message levels have the following meanings:
+.Bl -tag -width "warning"
+.It Cm fatal
+The parser is unable to parse a given input file at all.
+No formatted output is produced from that input file.
+.It Cm error
+An input file contains syntax that cannot be safely interpreted,
+either because it is invalid or because
+.Nm
+does not implement it yet.
+By discarding part of the input or inserting missing tokens,
+the parser is able to continue, and the error does not prevent
+generation of formatted output, but typically, preparing that
+output involves information loss, broken document structure
+or unintended formatting.
+.It Cm warning
+An input file uses obsolete, discouraged or non-portable syntax.
+All the same, the meaning of the input is unambiguous and a correct
+rendering can be produced.
+Documents causing warnings may render poorly when using other
+formatting tools instead of
+.Nm .
+.El
+.Pp
+Messages of the
+.Cm warning
+and
+.Cm error
+levels are hidden unless their level, or a lower level, is requested using a
+.Fl W
+option or
+.Fl T Ns Cm lint
+output mode.
+.Pp
+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.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
This section summarises
.Nm
-compatibility with
-.Xr groff 1 .
+compatibility with GNU troff.
Each input and output format is separately noted.
.Ss ASCII Compatibility
.Bl -bullet -compact
.Fl T Ns Cm ascii
are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.
.It
-In
-.Xr groff 1 ,
-the
+In GNU troff, the
.Sq \&Pa
.Xr mdoc 7
macro does not underline when scoped under an
formats such as
.Fl O Ns Cm style Ns = Ns Ar really/long/link .
.Pp
-The
-.Fl T Ns Cm html
-and
-.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
-output modes don't render the
-.Sq \es
-font size escape documented in
-.Xr mdoc 7
-and
-.Xr man 7 .
-.Pp
Nesting elements within next-line element scopes of
.Fl m Ns Cm an ,
such as
git.ckatri.com / mandoc.git / blobdiff