=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc.1,v retrieving revision 1.248 retrieving revision 1.256 diff -u -p -r1.248 -r1.256 --- mandoc/mandoc.1 2020/09/01 18:25:27 1.248 +++ mandoc/mandoc.1 2022/04/14 10:10:22 1.256 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mandoc.1,v 1.248 2020/09/01 18:25:27 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.256 2022/04/14 10:10:22 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: September 1 2020 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: April 14 2022 $ .Dt MANDOC 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -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 @@ -487,10 +487,10 @@ Use to translate .Xr mdoc 7 input to the markdown format conforming to -.Lk http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text\ +.Lk https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text\ "John Gruber's 2004 specification" . The output also almost conforms to the -.Lk http://commonmark.org/ CommonMark +.Lk https://commonmark.org/ CommonMark specification. .Pp The character set used for the markdown output is ASCII. @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ output mode implies .Sh EXAMPLES To page manuals to the terminal: .Pp -.Dl $ mandoc -l mandoc.1 man.1 apropos.1 makewhatis.8 +.Dl $ mandoc -a mandoc.1 man.1 apropos.1 makewhatis.8 .Pp To produce HTML manuals with .Pa /usr/share/misc/mandoc.css @@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ message levels, the .Cm style level tries to reduce the probability that issues go unnoticed, so it may occasionally issue bogus suggestions. -Please use your good judgement to decide whether any particular +Use your judgement to decide whether any particular .Cm style suggestion really justifies a change to the input file. .It Cm base @@ -922,14 +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 @@ -1016,6 +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 @@ -1045,6 +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 @@ -2290,6 +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 @@ -2327,6 +2371,14 @@ The .Fl O Cm tag option was specified but the tag was not found in any of the displayed manual pages. +.It Sy "\-Tmarkdown unsupported for man(7) input" +.Pq man +The +.Fl T Cm markdown +option was specified but an input file uses the +.Xr man 7 +language. +No output is produced for that input file. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr apropos 1 ,