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--- a/mandoc.1
+++ b/mandoc.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.94 2011/10/05 21:35:17 kristaps Exp $
+.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.95 2011/10/06 22:29:12 kristaps Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 5 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 6 2011 $
.Dt MANDOC 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -176,11 +176,11 @@ Encode output using the current locale.
See
.Sx Locale Output .
.It Fl T Ns Cm man
-Produce output in
+Produce
.Xr man 7
-format; only useful when applied to
-.Fl m Ns Cm doc
-input.
+format output.
+See
+.Sx Man Output .
.It Fl T Ns Cm pdf
Produce PDF output.
See
@@ -311,6 +311,26 @@ will fall back to
See
.Sx ASCII Output
for font style specification and available command-line arguments.
+.Ss Man Output
+Translate input format into
+.Xr man 7
+output format.
+This is useful for distributing manual sources to legancy systems
+lacking
+.Xr mdoc 7
+formatters.
+.Pp
+If
+.Xr mdoc 7
+is passed as input, it is translated into
+.Xr man 7 ;
+if the input format is
+.Xr man 7 ,
+it is parsed and re-outputted.
+In either case, the
+.Xr roff 7
+.Sq so
+macros are processed prior to producing output.
.Ss PDF Output
PDF-1.1 output may be generated by
.Fl T Ns Cm pdf .