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.Nd format and display UNIX manuals

.Sh SYNOPSIS

.Nm mandoc

.Op Fl acfhklV

.Op Fl acfhkl

.Sm off

.Op Fl I Cm os Li = Ar name

.Sm on

Line 150 See

for available formats.

Defaults to

.Fl T Ns Cm locale .

.It Fl V

Print version and exit.

.It Fl W Ns Ar level

Specify the minimum message

.Ar level

Line 321 Emboldened characters are rendered as

Line 319 Emboldened characters are rendered as

The special characters documented in

.Xr mandoc_char 7

are rendered best-effort in an ASCII equivalent.

If no equivalent is found,

.Sq \&?

is used instead.

.Pp

Output width is limited to 78 visible columns unless literal input lines

exceed this limit.

Line 344 for example overfull lines or ugly line breaks.

Line 339 for example overfull lines or ugly line breaks.

.It Cm width Ns = Ns Ar width

The output width is set to

.Ar width ,

which will normalise to \(>=60.

which will normalise to \(>=58.

.El

.Ss HTML Output

Output produced by

Line 732 macro occurs after some non-prologue macro, but still

Line 727 macro occurs after some non-prologue macro, but still

.Pq mdoc

The

.Ic \&Dt

macro can only occur before the first non-prologue macro

macro appears after the first non-prologue macro.

because traditional formatters write the page header

Traditional formatters cannot handle this because

before parsing the document body.

they write the page header before parsing the document body.

Even though this technical restriction does not apply to

.Nm ,

traditional semantics is preserved.

Line 776 This may confuse

Line 771 This may confuse

.Xr makewhatis 8

and

.Xr apropos 1 .

.It Sy "bad NAME section contents"

.It Sy "NAME section without name"

.Pq mdoc

The last node in the NAME section is not an

The NAME section does not contain any

.Ic \&Nm

child macro.

.It Sy "NAME section without description"

.Pq mdoc

The NAME section lacks the mandatory

.Ic \&Nd

macro, or any preceding macro is not

child macro.

.Ic \&Nm ,

.It Sy "description not at the end of NAME"

or the NAME section is completely empty.

.Pq mdoc

This may confuse

The NAME section does contain an

.Xr makewhatis 8

.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

.Ic \&Nd

macro lacks the required argument.

The title line of the manual will end after the dash.

.It Sy "sections out of conventional order"

.Pq mdoc

A standard section occurs after another section it usually precedes.

Line 833 manual for replacements.

Line 844 manual for replacements.

.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"

Line 992 clause.

Line 1003 clause.

.It Sy "skipping empty macro"

.Pq mdoc

The indicated macro has no arguments and hence no effect.

.It Sy "empty block"

.Pq mdoc , man

.Ic \&Bd ,

.Ic \&Bk ,

.Ic \&Bl ,

.Ic \&D1 ,

.Ic \&Dl ,

.Ic \&RS ,

.Ic \&UR

block contains nothing in its body and will produce no output.

.It Sy "empty argument, using 0n"

.Pq mdoc

The required width is missing after

Line 1001 or

Line 1024 or

.Fl offset

.Fl width.

.It Sy "argument count wrong"

.Pq mdoc , man

The indicated macro has too few or too many arguments.

The syntax tree will contain the wrong number of arguments as given.

Formatting behaviour depends on the specific macro in question.

Note that the same message may also occur as an ERROR, see below.

.It Sy "missing display type, using -ragged"

.Pq mdoc

The

Line 1038 The

Line 1055 The

macro is called without an argument before

.Ic \&Nm

has first been called with an argument.

.It Sy "missing function name, using \(dq\(dq"

.Pq mdoc

The

.Ic \&Fo

macro is called without an argument.

No function name is printed.

.It Sy "empty head in list item"

.Pq mdoc

In a

Line 1065 list, an

Line 1088 list, an

.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

.Ic \&Bf

macro has no argument.

It switches to the default font,

It switches to the default font.

.Cm \efR .

.It Sy "unknown font type, using \efR"

.It Sy "unknown font type"

.Pq mdoc

The

.Ic \&Bf

argument is invalid.

The default font

The default font is used instead.

.Cm \efR

is used instead.

.It Sy "nothing follows prefix"

.Pq mdoc

Line 1088 macro has no argument, or only one argument and no mac

Line 1108 macro has no argument, or only one argument and no mac

on the same input line.

This defeats its purpose; in particular, spacing is not suppressed

before the text or macros following on the next input line.

.It Sy "empty reference block"

.Pq mdoc

.Ic \&Rs

macro is immediately followed by an

.Ic \&Re

macro on the next input line.

Such an empty block does not produce any output.

.It Sy "missing -std argument, adding it"

.Pq mdoc

Line 1102 The

Line 1130 The

utility assumes

.Fl std

even when it is not specified, but other implementations may not.

.It Sy "missing option string, using \(dq\(dq"

.Pq man

The

.Ic \&OP

macro is invoked without any argument.

An empty pair of square brackets is shown.

.It Sy "missing resource identifier, using \(dq\(dq"

.Pq man

The

.Ic \&UR

macro is invoked without any argument.

An empty pair of angle brackets is shown.

.It Sy "missing eqn box, using \(dq\(dq"

.Pq eqn

A diacritic mark or a binary operator is found,

Line 1166 list has a

Line 1206 list has a

.Fl width

argument.

That has no effect.

.It Sy "wrong number of cells"

In a line of a

.Ic \&Bl Fl column

list, the number of tabs or

.Ic \&Ta

macros is less than the number expected from the list header line

or exceeds the expected number by more than one.

Missing cells remain empty, and all cells exceeding the number of

columns are joined into one single cell.

.It Sy "unknown AT&T UNIX version"

.Pq mdoc

Line 1217 request or a

Line 1266 request or a

layout modifier has an unknown

.Ar font

argument.

.It Sy "odd number of characters in request"

.Pq roff

.Ic \&tr

request contains an odd number of characters.

The last character is mapped to the blank character.

.El

.Ss "Warnings related to plain text"

.Bl -ohang

Line 1291 Data provided for this cell is ignored, and nothing is

Line 1346 Data provided for this cell is ignored, and nothing is

A table layout specification contains more than two consecutive vertical bars.

A double bar is printed, all additional bars are discarded.

.El

.Ss "Errors related to equations"

.Bl -inset -compact

.It "unexpected equation scope closure"

.It "equation scope open on exit"

.It "overlapping equation scopes"

.It "unexpected end of equation"

.El

.Ss "Errors related to tables"

.Bl -ohang

.It Sy "non-alphabetic character in tbl options"

Line 1336 The invalid character is discarded.

Line 1384 The invalid character is discarded.

A table layout specification contains an opening parenthesis,

but no matching closing parenthesis.

The rest of the input line, starting from the parenthesis, has no effect.

.It Sy "tbl without any data cells"

.Pq tbl

A table does not contain any data cells.

It will probably produce no output.

.It Sy "ignoring data in spanned tbl cell"

.Pq tbl

A table cell is marked as a horizontal span

.Pq Sq Cm s

or vertical span

.Pq Sq Cm ^

in the table layout, but it contains data.

The data is ignored.

.It Sy "ignoring extra tbl data cells"

.Pq tbl

A data line contains more cells than the corresponding layout line.

The data in the extra cells is ignored.

.It Sy "data block open at end of tbl"

.Pq tbl

A data block is opened with

.Cm T{ ,

but never closed with a matching

.Cm T} .

The remaining data lines of the table are all put into one cell,

and any remaining cells stay empty.

.El

.Pp

.Bl -inset -compact

.It Sy "no table data cells specified"

.It Sy "ignore data in cell"

.It Sy "data block still open"

.It Sy "ignoring extra data cells"

.El

.Ss "Errors related to roff, mdoc, and man code"

.Bl -ohang

.It Sy "input stack limit exceeded, infinite loop?"

Line 1443 macros as well as tables require explicit closing by d

Line 1508 macros as well as tables require explicit closing by d

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

Line 1493 When parsing for a request or a user-defined macro nam

Line 1558 When parsing for a request or a user-defined macro nam

only the escape sequence is discarded.

The characters preceding it are used as the request or macro name,

the characters following it are used as the arguments to the request or macro.

.It Sy "argument count wrong"

.Pq mdoc , man , roff

The indicated request or macro has too few or too many arguments.

The syntax tree will contain the wrong number of arguments as given.

Formatting behaviour depends on the specific request or macro in question.

Note that the same message may also occur as a WARNING, see above.

.It Sy "NOT IMPLEMENTED: Bd -file"

.Pq mdoc

For security reasons, the

Line 1581 An

Line 1640 An

.Ic \&Ef ,

.Ic \&Ek ,

.Ic \&El ,

.Ic \&Lp ,

.Ic \&Pp ,

.Ic \&Re ,

.Ic \&Rs ,

.Ic \&Ud

macro, an

Line 1599 or

Line 1661 or

.Ic \&EN

macro, or a

.Xr roff 7

.Ic \&br ,

.Ic \&fi ,

.Ic \&nf

request or

.Sq \&..

block closing request is invoked with at least one argument.

All arguments are ignored.

.It Sy "skipping excess arguments"

.Pq mdoc , man , roff

The

A macro or request is invoked with too many arguments:

.Ic \&Bf

.Bl -dash -offset 2n -width 2n -compact

macro is invoked with more than one argument, the

.It

.Ic \&Fo ,

.Ic \&PD ,

.Ic \&RS ,

.Ic \&UR ,

.Ic \&ft ,

.Ic \&sp

with more than one argument

.It

.Ic \&An

with another argument after

.Fl split

.Fl nosplit

.It

.Ic \&RE

macro is invoked with more than one argument

with more than one argument or with a non-integer argument

or with a non-integer argument, or a request of the

.It

.Ic \&OP

or a request of the

.Ic \&de

family is invoked with more than two arguments.

family with more than two arguments

.It

.Ic \&Dt

with more than three arguments

.It

.Ic \&TH

with more than five arguments

.It

.Ic \&Bd ,

.Ic \&Bk ,

.Ic \&Bl

with invalid arguments

.El

The excess arguments are ignored.

.El

.Ss Unsupported features

Line 1640 request supported by GNU troff or Heirloom troff but n

Line 1737 request supported by GNU troff or Heirloom troff but n

.Nm ,

and it is likely that this will cause information loss

or considerable misformatting.

.It Sy "unsupported table layout modfier"

.It Sy "eqn delim option in tbl"

.Pq eqn , tbl

The options line of a table defines equation delimiters.

Any equation source code contained in the table will be printed unformatted.

.It Sy "unsupported table layout modifier"

.Pq tbl

A table layout specification contains an

.Sq Cm m

modifier.

The modifier is discarded.

.It Sy "ignoring macro in table"

.It Sy "eqn in tbl"

.Pq tbl , mdoc , man

.Pq eqn , tbl

A table contains an invocation of an

The options line of a table defines equation delimiters.

Any equation source code contained in the table will be printed unformatted.

.El

.Sh COMPATIBILITY

This section summarises

.Nm

compatibility with GNU troff.

Each input and output format is separately noted.

.Ss ASCII Compatibility

.Bl -bullet -compact

.It

Unrenderable unicode codepoints specified with

.Sq \e[uNNNN]

escapes are printed as

.Sq \&?

in mandoc.

In GNU troff, these raise an error.

.It

The

.Sq \&Bd \-literal

and

.Sq \&Bd \-unfilled

macros of

.Xr mdoc 7

.Fl T Ns Cm ascii

are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.

.It

In historic GNU troff, the

.Sq \&Pa

.Xr mdoc 7

macro does not underline when scoped under an

.Sq \&It

in the FILES section.

This behaves correctly in

.Nm .

.It

A list or display following the

.Sq \&Ss

.Xr mdoc 7

macro in

.Fl T Ns Cm ascii

does not assert a prior vertical break, just as it doesn't with

.Sq \&Sh .

.It

The

.Sq \&na

.Xr man 7

macro in

macro or of an undefined macro.

.Fl T Ns Cm ascii

The macro is ignored, and its arguments are handled

has no effect.

as if they were a text line.

.It

Words aren't hyphenated.

.El

.Ss HTML Compatibility

.Bl -bullet -compact

.It

The

.Sq \efP

escape will revert the font to the previous

.Sq \ef

escape, not to the last rendered decoration, which is now dictated by

CSS instead of hard-coded.

It also will not span past the current scope,

for the same reason.

Note that in

.Sx ASCII Output

mode, this will work fine.

.It

The

.Xr mdoc 7

.Sq \&Bl \-hang

and

.Sq \&Bl \-tag

list types render similarly (no break following overreached left-hand

side) due to the expressive constraints of HTML.

.It

The

.Xr man 7

.Sq IP

and

.Sq TP

lists render similarly.

.El

.Sh SEE ALSO

.Xr apropos 1 ,

.Xr man 1 ,

.Xr eqn 7 ,

.Xr man 7 ,

.Xr mandoc_char 7 ,

Line 1744 lists render similarly.

Line 1770 lists render similarly.

The

.Nm

utility was written by

.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .

.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv

.Sh CAVEATS

and is maintained by

.An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .

.Sh BUGS

.Fl T Ns Cm html

.Fl T Ns Cm html ,

and

.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml ,

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 .

.Pp

Nesting elements within next-line element scopes of

.Fl m Ns Cm an ,

such as

.Sq br

within an empty

.Sq B ,

will confuse

.Fl T Ns Cm html

and

.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml

and cause them to forget the formatting of the prior next-line scope.

.Pp

The

.Sq \(aq

control character is an alias for the standard macro control character

and does not emit a line-break as stipulated in GNU troff.

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