For some options that are rarely needed in apropos(1) and man(1),

delete the verbose descriptions and point to man(1) and mandoc(1),
respectively, instead.  That shortens the pages and makes them
easier to read.
Tweaks and OK jmc@, based in part on ideas from tedu@.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 66 deletions

diff --git a/man.1 b/man.1
index 9c3c3b11..2656d319 100644
--- a/man.1
+++ b/man.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: man.1,v 1.25 2017/03/22 13:31:49 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: man.1,v 1.26 2017/03/25 12:46:36 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)man.1	8.2 (Berkeley) 1/2/94
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 22 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 25 2017 $
 .Dt MAN 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -102,28 +102,6 @@ Implies
 .Fl a
 and
 .Fl c .
-.It Fl I Cm os Ns = Ns Ar name
-Override the default operating system
-.Ar name
-for the
-.Xr mdoc 7
-.Ic \&Os
-and for the
-.Xr man 7
-.Ic \&TH
-macro.
-.It Fl K Ar encoding
-Specify the input encoding.
-The supported
-.Ar encoding
-arguments are
-.Cm us-ascii ,
-.Cm iso-8859-1 ,
-and
-.Cm utf-8 .
-By default, the encoding is automatically detected as described in the
-.Xr mandoc 1
-manual.
 .It Fl k
 A synonym for
 .Xr apropos 1 .
@@ -184,11 +162,6 @@ the directories specified using the
 option or the
 .Ev MANPATH
 environment variable.
-.It Fl O Ar option Ns = Ns Ar value
-Comma-separated output options.
-For each output format, the available options are described in the
-.Xr mandoc 1
-manual.
 .It Fl S Ar subsection
 Only show pages for the specified
 .Xr machine 1
@@ -236,48 +209,16 @@ Kernel internals.
 If not specified and a match is found in more than one section,
 the first match is selected from the following list:
 1, 8, 6, 2, 3, 5, 7, 4, 9, 3p.
-.It Fl T Ar output
-Select the output format.
-The default is
-.Cm locale .
-The other output modes
-.Cm ascii ,
-.Cm html ,
-.Cm lint ,
-.Cm man ,
-.Cm pdf ,
-.Cm ps ,
-.Cm tree ,
-and
-.Cm utf8
-are described in the
-.Xr mandoc 1
-manual.
-.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.
-The
-.Ar level
-can be
-.Cm warning ,
-.Cm error ,
-or
-.Cm unsupp ;
-.Cm all
-is an alias for
-.Cm warning .
-By default,
-.Nm
-is silent.
-See the
-.Xr mandoc 1
-manual for details.
 .It Fl w
 List the pathnames of all matching manual pages instead of displaying
 any of them.
 .El
 .Pp
+The options
+.Fl IKOTW
+are also supported and are documented in
+.Xr mandoc 1 .
+.Pp
 Guidelines for writing
 man pages can be found in
 .Xr mdoc 7 .