-.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.151 2015/02/06 16:06:25 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.159 2015/04/03 08:46:17 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014, 2015 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 6 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 3 2015 $
.Dt MANDOC 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nd format and display UNIX manuals
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm mandoc
-.Op Fl acfhklV
-.Sm off
-.Op Fl I Cm os Li = Ar name
-.Sm on
-.Op Fl K Ns Ar encoding
+.Op Fl acfhkl
+.Op Fl I Cm os Ns = Ns Ar name
+.Op Fl K Ar encoding
.Op Fl m Ns Ar format
-.Op Fl O Ns Ar option
-.Op Fl T Ns Ar output
-.Op Fl W Ns Ar level
+.Op Fl O Ar option
+.Op Fl T Ar output
+.Op Fl W Ar level
.Op Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
text from stdin, implying
.Fl m Ns Cm andoc ,
and produces
-.Fl T Ns Cm locale
+.Fl T Cm locale
output.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
and
.Fl l
options.
-.Sm off
-.It Fl I Cm os Li = Ar name
-.Sm on
+.It Fl I Cm os Ns = Ns Ar name
Override the default operating system
.Ar name
for the
Display only the SYNOPSIS lines.
Implies
.Fl c .
-.It Fl K Ns Ar encoding
+.It Fl K Ar encoding
Specify the input encoding.
The supported
.Ar encoding
for available formats.
Defaults to
.Fl m Ns Cm andoc .
-.It Fl O Ns Ar option
+.It Fl O Ar option
Comma-separated output options.
-.It Fl T Ns Ar output
+.It Fl T Ar output
Output format.
See
.Sx Output Formats
for available formats.
Defaults to
-.Fl T Ns Cm locale .
-.It Fl V
-Print version and exit.
-.It Fl W Ns Ar level
+.Fl T Cm locale .
+.It Fl W Ar level
Specify the minimum message
.Ar level
to be reported on the standard error output and to affect the exit status.
for details.
.Pp
The special option
-.Fl W Ns Cm stop
+.Fl W Cm stop
tells
.Nm
to exit after parsing a file that causes warnings or errors of at least
and
.Cm stop
are requested, they can be joined with a comma, for example
-.Fl W Ns Cm error , Ns Cm stop .
+.Fl W Cm error , Ns Cm stop .
.It Ar file
Read input from zero or more files.
If unspecified, reads from stdin.
utility accepts the following
.Fl T
arguments, which correspond to output modes:
-.Bl -tag -width "-Tlocale"
-.It Fl T Ns Cm ascii
+.Bl -tag -width "-T locale"
+.It Fl T Cm ascii
Produce 7-bit ASCII output.
See
.Sx ASCII Output .
-.It Fl T Ns Cm html
+.It Fl T Cm html
Produce HTML5, CSS1, and MathML output.
See
.Sx HTML Output .
-.It Fl T Ns Cm lint
+.It Fl T Cm lint
Parse only: produce no output.
Implies
-.Fl W Ns Cm warning .
-.It Fl T Ns Cm locale
+.Fl W Cm warning .
+.It Fl T Cm locale
Encode output using the current locale.
This is the default.
See
.Sx Locale Output .
-.It Fl T Ns Cm man
+.It Fl T Cm man
Produce
.Xr man 7
format output.
See
.Sx Man Output .
-.It Fl T Ns Cm pdf
+.It Fl T Cm pdf
Produce PDF output.
See
.Sx PDF Output .
-.It Fl T Ns Cm ps
+.It Fl T Cm ps
Produce PostScript output.
See
.Sx PostScript Output .
-.It Fl T Ns Cm tree
+.It Fl T Cm tree
Produce an indented parse tree.
-.It Fl T Ns Cm utf8
+.It Fl T Cm utf8
Encode output in the UTF\-8 multi-byte format.
See
.Sx UTF\-8 Output .
-.It Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
+.It Fl T Cm xhtml
This is a synonym for
-.Fl T Ns Cm html .
+.Fl T Cm html .
.El
.Pp
If multiple input files are specified, these will be processed by the
corresponding filter in-order.
.Ss ASCII Output
Output produced by
-.Fl T Ns Cm ascii
+.Fl T Cm ascii
is rendered in standard 7-bit ASCII documented in
.Xr ascii 7 .
.Pp
.El
.Ss HTML Output
Output produced by
-.Fl T Ns Cm html
+.Fl T Cm html
conforms to HTML5 using optional self-closing tags.
Default styles use only CSS1.
Equations rendered from
.Pa example.style.css
file documents style-sheet classes available for customising output.
If a style-sheet is not specified with
-.Fl O Ns Ar style ,
-.Fl T Ns Cm html
+.Fl O Cm style ,
+.Fl T Cm html
defaults to simple output (via an embedded style-sheet)
readable in any graphical or text-based web
browser.
.El
.Ss Locale Output
Locale-depending output encoding is triggered with
-.Fl T Ns Cm locale .
+.Fl T Cm locale .
This is the default.
.Pp
This option is not available on all systems: systems without locale
support, or those whose internal representation is not natively UCS-4,
will fall back to
-.Fl T Ns Cm ascii .
+.Fl T Cm ascii .
See
.Sx ASCII Output
for font style specification and available command-line arguments.
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 .
+.Fl T Cm pdf .
See
.Sx PostScript Output
for
PostScript
.Qq Adobe-3.0
Level-2 pages may be generated by
-.Fl T Ns Cm ps .
+.Fl T 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.
.El
.Ss UTF\-8 Output
Use
-.Fl T Ns Cm utf8
+.Fl T Cm utf8
to force a UTF\-8 locale.
See
.Sx Locale Output
.Ev MANPAGER
is not defined.
If neither PAGER nor MANPAGER is defined,
-.Pa /usr/bin/more Fl s
+.Xr more 1
+.Fl s
will be used.
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ar level .
.It 2
At least one warning occurred, but no error, and
-.Fl W Ns Cm warning
+.Fl W Cm warning
was specified.
.It 3
At least one parsing error occurred,
but no unsupported feature was encountered, and
-.Fl W Ns Cm error
+.Fl W Cm error
or
-.Fl W Ns Cm warning
+.Fl W Cm warning
was specified.
.It 4
At least one unsupported feature was encountered, and
-.Fl W Ns Cm unsupp ,
-.Fl W Ns Cm error
+.Fl W Cm unsupp ,
+.Fl W Cm error
or
-.Fl W Ns Cm warning
+.Fl W Cm warning
was specified.
.It 5
Invalid command line arguments were specified.
.El
.Pp
Note that selecting
-.Fl T Ns Cm lint
+.Fl T Cm lint
output mode implies
-.Fl W Ns Cm warning .
+.Fl W Cm warning .
.Sh EXAMPLES
To page manuals to the terminal:
.Pp
-.Dl $ mandoc \-Wall,stop mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less
+.Dl $ mandoc \-W all,stop mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less
.Dl $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less
.Pp
To produce HTML manuals with
.Ar style.css
as the style-sheet:
.Pp
-.Dl $ mandoc \-Thtml -Ostyle=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html
+.Dl $ mandoc \-T html -O style=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html
.Pp
To check over a large set of manuals:
.Pp
-.Dl $ mandoc \-Tlint `find /usr/src -name \e*\e.[1-9]`
+.Dl $ mandoc \-T lint \(gafind /usr/src -name \e*\e.[1-9]\(ga
.Pp
To produce a series of PostScript manuals for A4 paper:
.Pp
-.Dl $ mandoc \-Tps \-Opaper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps
+.Dl $ mandoc \-T ps \-O paper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps
.Pp
Convert a modern
.Xr mdoc 7
.Xr mdoc 7
parser:
.Pp
-.Dl $ mandoc \-Tman foo.mdoc \*(Gt foo.man
+.Dl $ mandoc \-T man foo.mdoc \*(Gt foo.man
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
Messages displayed by
.Nm
are hidden unless their level, or a lower level, is requested using a
.Fl W
option or
-.Fl T Ns Cm lint
+.Fl T Cm lint
output mode.
.Ss Warnings related to the document prologue
.Bl -ohang
.Pq mdoc
The
.Ic \&Dt
-macro can only occur before the first non-prologue macro
-because traditional formatters write the page header
-before parsing the document body.
+macro appears after the first non-prologue macro.
+Traditional formatters cannot handle this because
+they write the page header before parsing the document body.
Even though this technical restriction does not apply to
.Nm ,
traditional semantics is preserved.
.Xr makewhatis 8
and
.Xr apropos 1 .
-.It Sy "bad NAME section contents"
+.It Sy "NAME section without name"
+.Pq mdoc
+The NAME section does not contain any
+.Ic \&Nm
+child macro.
+.It Sy "NAME section without description"
.Pq mdoc
-The last node in the NAME section is not an
+The NAME section lacks the mandatory
.Ic \&Nd
-macro, or any preceding macro is not
-.Ic \&Nm ,
-or the NAME section is completely empty.
-This may confuse
-.Xr makewhatis 8
+child macro.
+.It Sy "description not at the end of NAME"
+.Pq mdoc
+The NAME section does contain an
+.Ic \&Nd
+child macro, but other content follows it.
+.It Sy "bad NAME section content"
+.Pq mdoc
+The NAME section contains plain text or macros other than
+.Ic \&Nm
and
-.Xr apropos 1 .
+.Ic \&Nd .
.It Sy "missing description line, using \(dq\(dq"
.Pq mdoc
The
macro with a lower section number follows one with a higher number,
or two
.Ic \&Xr
-macros refering to the same section are out of alphabetical order.
+macros referring to the same section are out of alphabetical order.
.It Sy "unusual Xr punctuation"
.Pq mdoc
In the SEE ALSO section, punctuation between two
.Pq mdoc
The name of a macro that is not callable appears on a macro line.
It is printed verbatim.
-If the intention is to call it, move it to its own line;
+If the intention is to call it, move it to its own input line;
otherwise, escape it by prepending
.Sq \e& .
.It Sy "skipping paragraph macro"
.Ic \&It
block is empty.
An empty list item is shown.
-.It Sy "missing font type"
+.It Sy "missing font type, using \efR"
.Pq mdoc
A
.Ic \&Bf
macro has no argument.
-It switches to the default font,
-.Cm \efR .
-.It Sy "unknown font type"
+It switches to the default font.
+.It Sy "unknown font type, using \efR"
.Pq mdoc
The
.Ic \&Bf
argument is invalid.
-The default font
-.Cm \efR
-is used instead.
+The default font is used instead.
.It Sy "nothing follows prefix"
.Pq mdoc
A
A block that doesn't support bad nesting
ends before all of its children are properly closed.
The open child nodes are closed implicitly.
-.It Sy "scope open on exit"
+.It Sy "appending missing end of block"
.Pq mdoc , man , eqn , tbl , roff
At the end of the document, an explicit
.Xr mdoc 7
.Ic \&de
family with more than two arguments
.It
+.Ic \&Dt
+with more than three arguments
+.It
.Ic \&TH
with more than five arguments
.It
.Xr roff 7 ,
.Xr tbl 7
.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
utility was written by
.An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .
.Sh BUGS
In
-.Fl T Ns Cm html ,
+.Fl T Cm html ,
the maximum size of an element attribute is determined by
.Dv BUFSIZ ,
which is usually 1024 bytes.
Be aware of this when setting long link
formats such as
-.Fl O Ns Cm style Ns = Ns Ar really/long/link .
+.Fl O Cm style Ns = Ns Ar really/long/link .
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