=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc.1,v retrieving revision 1.244 retrieving revision 1.252 diff -u -p -r1.244 -r1.252 --- mandoc/mandoc.1 2020/06/15 18:05:18 1.244 +++ mandoc/mandoc.1 2021/07/04 15:38:26 1.252 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mandoc.1,v 1.244 2020/06/15 18:05:18 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mandoc.1,v 1.252 2021/07/04 15:38:26 schwarze Exp $ .\" -.\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2020 Ingo Schwarze +.\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2021 Ingo Schwarze .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any @@ -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: June 15 2020 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 4 2021 $ .Dt MANDOC 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -52,13 +52,13 @@ The options are as follows: If the standard output is a terminal device and .Fl c is not specified, use -.Xr more 1 +.Xr less 1 to paginate the output, just like .Xr man 1 would. .It Fl c Copy the formatted manual pages to the standard output without using -.Xr more 1 +.Xr less 1 to paginate them. This is the default. It can be specified to override @@ -301,8 +301,8 @@ Format input files in .Xr mdoc 7 output style. -Specifically, this suppresses the two additional blank lines near the -top and the bottom of each page, and it implies +This prints the operating system name rather than the page title +on the right side of the footer line, and it implies .Fl O Cm indent Ns =5 . One useful application is for checking that .Fl T Cm man @@ -423,10 +423,17 @@ MANPAGER='lynx -force_html' man -T html -O tag=MANPAGE MANPAGER='w3m -T text/html' man -T html -O tag=toc mandoc .Ed .Pp -This argument does not work with +Consequently, for HTML output, this argument does not work with .Xr more 1 or .Xr less 1 . +For example, +.Ql MANPAGER=less man -T html -O tag=toc mandoc +does not work because +.Xr less 1 +does not support +.Ic file:// +URIs. .It Cm toc If an input file contains at least two non-standard sections, print a table of contents near the beginning of the output. @@ -468,10 +475,7 @@ code is not supported. .Pp If the input format of a file is .Xr man 7 , -the input is copied to the output, expanding any -.Xr roff 7 -.Ic so -requests. +the input is copied to the output. The parser is also run, and as usual, the .Fl W level controls which @@ -650,7 +654,7 @@ It never affects the interpretation of input files. Any non-empty value of the environment variable .Ev MANPAGER is used instead of the standard pagination program, -.Xr more 1 ; +.Xr less 1 ; see .Xr man 1 for details. @@ -664,8 +668,7 @@ Specifies the pagination program to use when .Ev MANPAGER is not defined. If neither PAGER nor MANPAGER is defined, -.Xr more 1 -.Fl s +.Xr less 1 is used. Only used if .Fl a @@ -919,14 +922,6 @@ generated by CVS or .Ic NetBSD keyword substitution as conventionally used in these operating systems. -.It Sy "referenced manual not found" -.Pq mdoc -An -.Ic \&Xr -macro references a manual page that is not found in the base system. -The path to look for base system manuals is configurable at compile -time and defaults to -.Pa /usr/share/man : /usr/X11R6/man . .El .Ss Style suggestions .Bl -ohang @@ -1013,6 +1008,35 @@ list contains two consecutive entries describing the same .Ic \&Er number. +.It Sy "referenced manual not found" +.Pq mdoc +An +.Ic \&Xr +macro references a manual page that was not found. +When running with +.Fl W Cm base , +the search is restricted to the base system, by default to +.Pa /usr/share/man : Ns Pa /usr/X11R6/man . +This path can be configured at compile time using the +.Dv MANPATH_BASE +preprocessor macro. +When running with +.Fl W Cm style , +the search is done along the full search path as described in the +.Xr man 1 +manual page, respecting the +.Fl m +and +.Fl M +command line options, the +.Ev MANPATH +environment variable, the +.Xr man.conf 5 +file and falling back to the default of +.Pa /usr/share/man : Ns Pa /usr/X11R6/man : Ns Pa /usr/local/man , +also configurable at compile time using the +.Dv MANPATH_DEFAULT +preprocessor macro. .It Sy "trailing delimiter" .Pq mdoc The last argument of an @@ -1042,6 +1066,9 @@ An request occurs even though the document already switched to no-fill mode and did not switch back to fill mode yet. It has no effect. +.It Sy "input text line longer than 80 bytes" +Consider breaking the input text line +at one of the blank characters before column 80. .It Sy "verbatim \(dq--\(dq, maybe consider using \e(em" .Pq mdoc Even though the ASCII output device renders an em-dash as @@ -1847,6 +1874,10 @@ 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 "ignoring excessive spacing in tbl layout" +.Pq tbl +A spacing modifier in a table layout is unreasonably large. +The default spacing of 3n is used instead. .It Sy "tbl without any data cells" .Pq tbl A table does not contain any data cells. @@ -2283,6 +2314,26 @@ or macro or of an undefined macro. The macro is ignored, and its arguments are handled as if they were a text line. +.It Sy "skipping tbl in -Tman mode" +.Pq mdoc , tbl +An input file contains the +.Ic \&TS +macro. +This message is only generated in +.Fl T Cm man +output mode, where +.Xr tbl 7 +input is not supported. +.It Sy "skipping eqn in -Tman mode" +.Pq mdoc , eqn +An input file contains the +.Ic \&EQ +macro. +This message is only generated in +.Fl T Cm man +output mode, where +.Xr eqn 7 +input is not supported. .El .Ss Bad command line arguments .Bl -ohang