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.Dd $Mdocdate: February 21 2009 $
.Dt mdocmterm 1
.Os
.\" SECTION
.Sh NAME
.Nm mdocmterm
.Nd mdoc macro compiler
.\" SECTION
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm mdocmterm
.Op Fl v
.Op Fl W Ns Ar err...
.Op Ar infile
.\" SECTION
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility formats a BSD 
.Dq mdoc 
manual page for display on the terminal.  The arguments are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "\-Werr... "
.\" ITEM
.It Fl v
Print verbose parsing output.
.\" ITEM
.It Fl W Ns Ar err...
Print warning messages.  May be set to 
.Fl W Ns Ar all
for all warnings, 
.Ar compat
for groff/troff-compatibility warnings, or
.Ar syntax
for syntax warnings.  If
.Fl W Ns Ar error 
is specified, warnings are considered errors and cause utility
termination.  Multiple 
.Fl W
arguments may be comma-separated, such as
.Fl W Ns Ar error,all .
.\" ITEM
.It Ar infile
Read input from
.Ar infile ,
which may be 
.Dq \-
for stdin.
.El
.\" PARAGRAPH
The
.Nm
utility is a formatting front-end for
.Xr mdoc 3 ,
which parses the 
.Dq mdoc
input, documented at
.Xr mdoc 7
and
.Xr mdoc.samples 7 ,
into an abstract syntax tree.
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
By default,
.Nm
reads from stdin and prints terminal-encoded output to stdout.
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
.Ex -std mdocmterm
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
.Nm
is
.Ud
.\" SECTION
.Sh EXAMPLES
To display this manual page:
.\" PARAGRAPH
.Pp
.D1 % mdocmterm \-Wall,error mdocmterm.1 
.\" SECTION
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mdoctree 1 ,
.Xr mdoc.samples 7 ,
.Xr mdoc 7 ,
.Xr mdoc 3
.\" 
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
utility was written by 
.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@kth.se .
.\" SECTION
.Sh CAVEATS
See
.Xr mdoc 3
for a list of bugs, caveats, and incomplete macros.