=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc.1,v retrieving revision 1.188 retrieving revision 1.198 diff -u -p -r1.188 -r1.198 --- mandoc/mandoc.1 2017/05/17 23:39:31 1.188 +++ mandoc/mandoc.1 2017/06/11 17:16:51 1.198 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.188 2017/05/17 23:39:31 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.198 2017/06/11 17:16:51 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2017 Ingo Schwarze @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: May 17 2017 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: June 11 2017 $ .Dt MANDOC 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ and for the .Xr man 7 .Ic \&TH macro. +This can also be used to perform style checks according to the +conventions of one operating system while running on a different +operating system; see +.Sx Style messages +for details. .It Fl K Ar encoding Specify the input encoding. The supported @@ -219,7 +224,7 @@ See .It Fl T Cm lint Parse only: produce no output. Implies -.Fl W Cm warning . +.Fl W Cm style . .It Fl T Cm locale Encode output using the current locale. This is the default. @@ -632,7 +637,7 @@ to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or Note that selecting .Fl T Cm lint output mode implies -.Fl W Cm warning . +.Fl W Cm style . .Sh EXAMPLES To page manuals to the terminal: .Pp @@ -742,6 +747,72 @@ are hidden unless their level, or a lower level, is re option or .Fl T Cm lint output mode. +.Ss Style messages +As indicated below, some style checks are only performed if a +specific operating system name occurs in the arguments of the +.Ic \&Os +macro, of the +.Fl Ios +command line option, or, if neither are present, in the return value +of the +.Xr uname 3 +function. +.Bl -ohang +.It Sy "useless macro" +.Pq mdoc +A +.Ic \&Bt , +.Ic \&Tn , +or +.Ic \&Ud +macro was found. +Simply delete it: it serves no useful purpose. +.It Sy "consider using OS macro" +.Pq mdoc +A string was found in plain text or in a +.Ic \&Bx +macro that could be represented using +.Ic \&Ox , +.Ic \&Nx , +.Ic \&Fx , +or +.Ic \&Dx . +.It Sy "errnos out of order" +.Pq mdoc, Nx +The +.Ic \&Er +items in a +.Ic \&Bl +list are not in alphabetical order. +.It Sy "duplicate errno" +.Pq mdoc, Nx +A +.Ic \&Bl +list contains two consecutive +.Ic \&It +entries describing the same +.Ic \&Er +number. +.It Sy "description line ends with a full stop" +.Pq mdoc +Do not use punctuation at the end of an +.Ic \&Nd +block. +.It Sy "no blank before trailing delimiter" +.Pq mdoc +The last argument of a macro that supports trailing delimiter +arguments is longer than one byte and ends with a trailing delimiter. +Consider inserting a blank such that the delimiter becomes a separate +argument, thus moving it out of the scope of the macro. +.It Sy "function name without markup" +.Pq mdoc +A word followed by an empty pair of parentheses occurs on a text line. +Consider using an +.Ic \&Fn +or +.Ic \&Xr +macro. +.El .Ss Warnings related to the document prologue .Bl -ohang .It Sy "missing manual title, using UNTITLED" @@ -1342,6 +1413,12 @@ or .Ic \&Fn macro contains an opening or closing parenthesis; that's probably wrong, parentheses are added automatically. +.It Sy "unknown library name" +.Pq mdoc, not on Ox +An +.Ic \&Lb +macro has an unknown name argument and will be rendered as +.Qq library Dq Ar name . .It Sy "invalid content in Rs block" .Pq mdoc An @@ -1689,6 +1766,11 @@ whatever mode was active before the block. A .Ic \&Bl macro fails to specify the list type. +.It Sy "argument is not numeric, using 1" +.Pq roff +The argument of a +.Ic \&ce +request is not a number. .It Sy "missing manual name, using \(dq\(dq" .Pq mdoc The first call to