=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc.1,v retrieving revision 1.80 retrieving revision 1.99 diff -u -p -r1.80 -r1.99 --- mandoc/mandoc.1 2010/12/16 11:23:08 1.80 +++ mandoc/mandoc.1 2011/11/13 14:50:54 1.99 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.80 2010/12/16 11:23:08 kristaps Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.99 2011/11/13 14:50:54 schwarze Exp $ .\" -.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons +.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: December 16 2010 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: November 13 2011 $ .Dt MANDOC 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .Op Fl O Ns Ar option .Op Fl T Ns Ar output .Op Fl W Ns Ar level -.Op Ar file... +.Op Ar .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm @@ -157,21 +157,30 @@ The utility accepts the following .Fl T arguments, which correspond to output modes: -.Bl -tag -width Ds +.Bl -tag -width "-Tlocale" .It Fl T Ns Cm ascii -Produce 7-bit ASCII output, backspace-encoded for bold and underline -styles. +Produce 7-bit ASCII output. This is the default. See .Sx ASCII Output . .It Fl T Ns Cm html -Produce strict HTML-4.01 output, with a sane default style. +Produce strict CSS1/HTML-4.01 output. See .Sx HTML Output . .It Fl T Ns Cm lint Parse only: produce no output. Implies .Fl W Ns Cm warning . +.It Fl T Ns Cm locale +Encode output using the current locale. +See +.Sx Locale Output . +.It Fl T Ns Cm man +Produce +.Xr man 7 +format output. +See +.Sx Man Output . .It Fl T Ns Cm pdf Produce PDF output. See @@ -182,8 +191,12 @@ See .Sx PostScript Output . .It Fl T Ns Cm tree Produce an indented parse tree. +.It Fl T Ns Cm utf8 +Encode output in the UTF\-8 multi-byte format. +See +.Sx UTF\-8 Output . .It Fl T Ns Cm xhtml -Produce strict XHTML-1.0 output, with a sane default style. +Produce strict CSS1/XHTML-1.0 output. See .Sx XHTML Output . .El @@ -210,6 +223,9 @@ 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. @@ -218,6 +234,15 @@ The following .Fl O arguments are accepted: .Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Cm indent Ns = Ns Ar indent +The left margin for normal text is set to +.Ar indent +blank characters instead of the default of five for +.Xr mdoc 7 +and seven for +.Xr man 7 . +Increasing this is not recommended; it may result in degraded formatting, +for example overfull lines or ugly line breaks. .It Cm width Ns = Ns Ar width The output width is set to .Ar width , @@ -228,23 +253,36 @@ Output produced by .Fl T Ns Cm html conforms to HTML-4.01 strict. .Pp -Font styles and page structure are applied using CSS2. -By default, no font style is applied to any text, -although CSS2 is hard-coded to format -the basic structure of output. -.Pp The .Pa example.style.css -file documents the range of styles applied to output and, if used, will -cause rendered documents to appear as they do in -.Fl T Ns Cm ascii . +file documents style-sheet classes available for customising output. +If a style-sheet is not specified with +.Fl O Ns Ar style , +.Fl T Ns Cm html +defaults to simple output readable in any graphical or text-based web +browser. .Pp -Special characters are rendered in decimal-encoded UTF-8. +Special characters are rendered in decimal-encoded UTF\-8. .Pp The following .Fl O arguments are accepted: .Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Cm fragment +Omit the +.Aq !DOCTYPE +declaration and the +.Aq html , +.Aq head , +and +.Aq body +elements and only emit the subtree below the +.Aq body +element. +The +.Cm style +argument will be ignored. +This is useful when embedding manual content within existing documents. .It Cm includes Ns = Ns Ar fmt The string .Ar fmt , @@ -281,6 +319,48 @@ is used for an external style-sheet. This must be a valid absolute or relative URI. .El +.Ss Locale Output +Locale-depending output encoding is triggered with +.Fl T Ns Cm locale . +This option is not available on all systems: systems without locale +support, or those whose internal representation is not natively UCS-4, +will fall back to +.Fl T Ns Cm ascii . +See +.Sx ASCII Output +for font style specification and available command-line arguments. +.Ss Man Output +Translate input format into +.Xr man 7 +output format. +This is useful for distributing manual sources to legancy systems +lacking +.Xr mdoc 7 +formatters. +.Pp +If +.Xr mdoc 7 +is passed as input, it is translated into +.Xr man 7 . +If the input format is +.Xr man 7 , +the input is copied to the output, expanding any +.Xr roff 7 +.Sq so +requests. +The parser is also run, and as usual, the +.Fl W +level controls which +.Sx DIAGNOSTICS +are displayed before copying the input to the output. +.Ss PDF Output +PDF-1.1 output may be generated by +.Fl T Ns Cm pdf . +See +.Sx PostScript Output +for +.Fl O +arguments and defaults. .Ss PostScript Output PostScript .Qq Adobe-3.0 @@ -315,14 +395,13 @@ If an unknown value is encountered, .Ar letter is used. .El -.Ss PDF Output -PDF-1.1 output may be generated by -.Fl T Ns Cm pdf . +.Ss UTF\-8 Output +Use +.Fl T Ns Cm utf8 +to force a UTF\-8 locale. See -.Sx PostScript Output -for -.Fl O -arguments and defaults. +.Sx Locale Output +for details and options. .Ss XHTML Output Output produced by .Fl T Ns Cm xhtml @@ -376,14 +455,14 @@ output mode implies .Sh EXAMPLES To page manuals to the terminal: .Pp -.D1 $ mandoc \-Wall,stop mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less -.D1 $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less +.Dl $ mandoc \-Wall,stop mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less +.Dl $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less .Pp To produce HTML manuals with .Ar style.css as the style-sheet: .Pp -.D1 $ mandoc \-Thtml -Ostyle=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html +.Dl $ mandoc \-Thtml -Ostyle=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html .Pp To check over a large set of manuals: .Pp @@ -391,7 +470,17 @@ To check over a large set of manuals: .Pp To produce a series of PostScript manuals for A4 paper: .Pp -.D1 $ mandoc \-Tps \-Opaper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps +.Dl $ mandoc \-Tps \-Opaper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps +.Pp +Convert a modern +.Xr mdoc 7 +manual to the older +.Xr man 7 +format, for use on systems lacking an +.Xr mdoc 7 +parser: +.Pp +.Dl $ mandoc \-Tman foo.mdoc \*(Gt foo.man .Sh DIAGNOSTICS Standard error messages reporting parsing errors are prefixed by .Pp @@ -463,6 +552,13 @@ 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 @@ -473,7 +569,7 @@ in .Fl T Ns Cm ascii are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged. .It -In GNU troff, the +In historic GNU troff, the .Sq \&Pa .Xr mdoc 7 macro does not underline when scoped under an @@ -498,8 +594,6 @@ macro in has no effect. .It Words aren't hyphenated. -.It -Sentences are unilaterally monospaced. .El .Ss HTML/XHTML Compatibility .Bl -bullet -compact @@ -532,14 +626,18 @@ and lists render similarly. .El .Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr eqn 7 , .Xr man 7 , .Xr mandoc_char 7 , -.Xr mdoc 7 +.Xr mdoc 7 , +.Xr roff 7 , +.Xr tbl 7 .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm utility was written by -.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@bsd.lv . +.An Kristaps Dzonsons , +.Mt kristaps@bsd.lv . .Sh CAVEATS In .Fl T Ns Cm html