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Diff for /mandoc/mandoc.1 between version 1.231 and 1.234

version 1.231, 2018/11/22 11:30:23

version 1.234, 2018/12/24 23:37:22

Line 320 Equations rendered from

.Xr eqn 7

blocks use MathML.

.Pp

The

The file

.Pa mandoc.css

.Pa /usr/share/misc/mandoc.css

file documents style-sheet classes available for customising output.

documents style-sheet classes available for customising output.

If a style-sheet is not specified with

.Fl O Cm style ,

.Fl T Cm html

Line 686 To page manuals to the terminal:

.Dl $ mandoc -l mandoc.1 man.1 apropos.1 makewhatis.8

.Pp

To produce HTML manuals with

.Pa mandoc.css

.Pa /usr/share/misc/mandoc.css

as the style-sheet:

.Pp

.Dl $ mandoc \-T html -O style=mandoc.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html

.Dl $ mandoc \-T html -O style=/usr/share/misc/mandoc.css mdoc.7 > mdoc.7.html

.Pp

To check over a large set of manuals:

.Pp

Line 697 To check over a large set of manuals:

.Pp

To produce a series of PostScript manuals for A4 paper:

.Pp

.Dl $ mandoc \-T ps \-O paper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps

.Dl $ mandoc \-T ps \-O paper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 > manuals.ps

.Pp

Convert a modern

.Xr mdoc 7

Line 707 format, for use on systems lacking an

.Xr mdoc 7

parser:

.Pp

.Dl $ mandoc \-T man foo.mdoc \*(Gt foo.man

.Dl $ mandoc \-T man foo.mdoc > foo.man

.Sh DIAGNOSTICS

Messages displayed by

.Nm

follow this format:

.Bd -ragged -offset indent

.Nm :

.Ar file : Ns Ar line : Ns Ar column : level : message : macro args

.Ar file : Ns Ar line : Ns Ar column : level : message : macro arguments

.Pq Ar os

.Ed

.Pp

Line and column numbers start at 1.

The first three fields identify the

.Ar file

name,

.Ar line

number, and

.Ar column

number of the input file where the message was triggered.

The line and column numbers start at 1.

Both are omitted for messages referring to an input file as a whole.

Macro names and arguments are omitted where meaningless.

All

.Ar level

and

.Ar message

strings are explained below.

The name of the

.Ar macro

triggering the message and its

.Ar arguments

are omitted where meaningless.

The

.Ar os

operating system specifier is omitted for messages that are relevant

Line 1676 Start it on a new input line to help formatters produc

Line 1692 Start it on a new input line to help formatters produc

.It Sy "invalid escape sequence"

.Pq roff

An escape sequence has an invalid opening argument delimiter, lacks the

closing argument delimiter, or the argument has too few characters.

closing argument delimiter, the argument is of an invalid form, or it is

a character escape sequence with an invalid name.

If the argument is incomplete,

.Ic \e*

and

Line 1689 and

Line 1706 and

.Ic \ew

to the length of the incomplete argument.

All other invalid escape sequences are ignored.

.It Sy "undefined escape, printing literally"

.Pq roff

In an escape sequence, the first character

right after the leading backslash is invalid.

That character is printed literally,

which is equivalent to ignoring the backslash.

.It Sy "undefined string, using \(dq\(dq"

.Pq roff

If a string is used without being defined before,

Line 2154 implementations but not by

Line 2177 implementations but not by

.Nm

was found in an input file.

It is replaced by a question mark.

.It Sy "unsupported escape sequence"

.Pq roff

An input file contains an escape sequence supported by GNU troff

or Heirloom troff but not by

.Nm ,

and it is likely that this will cause information loss

or considerable misformatting.

.It Sy "unsupported roff request"

.Pq roff

An input file contains a

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