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1.70 ! kristaps 17: .Dd $Mdocdate: July 4 2010 $
1.14 kristaps 18: .Dt MANDOC 1
1.1 kristaps 19: .Os
20: .Sh NAME
21: .Nm mandoc
1.8 kristaps 22: .Nd format and display UNIX manuals
1.1 kristaps 23: .Sh SYNOPSIS
24: .Nm mandoc
1.58 kristaps 25: .Op Fl V
26: .Op Fl f Ns Ar option
1.8 kristaps 27: .Op Fl m Ns Ar format
1.58 kristaps 28: .Op Fl O Ns Ar option
1.37 kristaps 29: .Op Fl T Ns Ar output
1.58 kristaps 30: .Op Fl W Ns Ar err
31: .Op Ar file...
1.1 kristaps 32: .Sh DESCRIPTION
33: The
34: .Nm
1.26 kristaps 35: utility formats
1.8 kristaps 36: .Ux
1.57 kristaps 37: manual pages for display.
38: The arguments are as follows:
1.19 kristaps 39: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.58 kristaps 40: .It Fl f Ns Ar option
1.57 kristaps 41: Comma-separated compiler options.
42: See
1.1 kristaps 43: .Sx Compiler Options
44: for details.
1.19 kristaps 45: .It Fl m Ns Ar format
1.57 kristaps 46: Input format.
47: See
1.8 kristaps 48: .Sx Input Formats
1.57 kristaps 49: for available formats.
50: Defaults to
1.58 kristaps 51: .Fl m Ns Cm andoc .
52: .It Fl O Ns Ar option
1.57 kristaps 53: Comma-separated output options.
1.19 kristaps 54: .It Fl T Ns Ar output
1.57 kristaps 55: Output format.
56: See
1.1 kristaps 57: .Sx Output Formats
1.57 kristaps 58: for available formats.
59: Defaults to
1.58 kristaps 60: .Fl T Ns Cm ascii .
1.1 kristaps 61: .It Fl V
62: Print version and exit.
1.58 kristaps 63: .It Fl W Ns Ar err
1.57 kristaps 64: Comma-separated warning options.
65: Use
1.58 kristaps 66: .Fl W Ns Cm all
1.24 kristaps 67: to print warnings,
1.58 kristaps 68: .Fl W Ns Cm error
1.24 kristaps 69: for warnings to be considered errors and cause utility
1.57 kristaps 70: termination.
71: Multiple
1.1 kristaps 72: .Fl W
73: arguments may be comma-separated, such as
1.58 kristaps 74: .Fl W Ns Cm error , Ns Cm all .
75: .It Ar file
76: Read input from zero or more files.
1.57 kristaps 77: If unspecified, reads from stdin.
78: If multiple files are specified,
1.2 kristaps 79: .Nm
80: will halt with the first failed parse.
1.1 kristaps 81: .El
82: .Pp
1.26 kristaps 83: By default,
84: .Nm
85: reads
1.8 kristaps 86: .Xr mdoc 7
1.12 kristaps 87: or
88: .Xr man 7
1.8 kristaps 89: text from stdin, implying
1.58 kristaps 90: .Fl m Ns Cm andoc ,
1.48 kristaps 91: and produces
1.58 kristaps 92: .Fl T Ns Cm ascii
1.48 kristaps 93: output.
1.1 kristaps 94: .Pp
95: .Ex -std mandoc
1.8 kristaps 96: .Ss Input Formats
97: The
98: .Nm
99: utility accepts
100: .Xr mdoc 7
101: and
102: .Xr man 7
103: input with
1.58 kristaps 104: .Fl m Ns Cm doc
1.8 kristaps 105: and
1.58 kristaps 106: .Fl m Ns Cm an ,
1.57 kristaps 107: respectively.
108: The
1.8 kristaps 109: .Xr mdoc 7
110: format is
111: .Em strongly
1.26 kristaps 112: recommended;
1.8 kristaps 113: .Xr man 7
114: should only be used for legacy manuals.
1.11 kristaps 115: .Pp
1.12 kristaps 116: A third option,
1.58 kristaps 117: .Fl m Ns Cm andoc ,
1.13 kristaps 118: which is also the default, determines encoding on-the-fly: if the first
1.26 kristaps 119: non-comment macro is
1.27 kristaps 120: .Sq \&Dd
1.13 kristaps 121: or
1.27 kristaps 122: .Sq \&Dt ,
1.26 kristaps 123: the
1.13 kristaps 124: .Xr mdoc 7
125: parser is used; otherwise, the
126: .Xr man 7
127: parser is used.
128: .Pp
129: If multiple
1.26 kristaps 130: files are specified with
1.58 kristaps 131: .Fl m Ns Cm andoc ,
1.57 kristaps 132: each has its file-type determined this way.
133: If multiple files are
1.13 kristaps 134: specified and
1.58 kristaps 135: .Fl m Ns Cm doc
1.12 kristaps 136: or
1.58 kristaps 137: .Fl m Ns Cm an
1.12 kristaps 138: is specified, then this format is used exclusively.
1.66 kristaps 139: .Ss Compiler Options
140: Default
141: .Xr mdoc 7
142: and
143: .Xr man 7
144: compilation behaviour may be overridden with the
145: .Fl f
146: flag.
147: .Bl -tag -width Ds
148: .It Fl f Ns Cm ign-errors
149: When parsing multiple files, don't halt when one errors out.
150: Useful with
151: .Fl T Ns Cm lint
152: over a large set of manuals passed on the command line.
153: .It Fl f Ns Cm ign-escape
154: Ignore invalid escape sequences.
155: This is the default, but the option can be used to override an earlier
156: .Fl f Ns Cm strict .
157: .It Fl f Ns Cm ign-scope
158: When rewinding the scope of a block macro, forces the compiler to ignore
159: scope violations.
160: This can seriously mangle the resulting tree.
161: .Pq mdoc only
162: .It Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-escape
163: Do not ignore invalid escape sequences.
164: .It Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-macro
165: Do not ignore unknown macros at the start of input lines.
166: .It Fl f Ns Cm strict
167: Implies
168: .Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-escape
169: and
170: .Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-macro .
171: .El
1.1 kristaps 172: .Ss Output Formats
173: The
174: .Nm
175: utility accepts the following
176: .Fl T
1.66 kristaps 177: arguments, which correspond to output modes:
1.19 kristaps 178: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.58 kristaps 179: .It Fl T Ns Cm ascii
1.1 kristaps 180: Produce 7-bit ASCII output, backspace-encoded for bold and underline
1.57 kristaps 181: styles.
182: This is the default.
183: See
1.48 kristaps 184: .Sx ASCII Output .
1.58 kristaps 185: .It Fl T Ns Cm html
1.57 kristaps 186: Produce strict HTML-4.01 output, with a sane default style.
187: See
1.48 kristaps 188: .Sx HTML Output .
1.58 kristaps 189: .It Fl T Ns Cm lint
190: Parse only: produce no output.
191: Implies
192: .Fl W Ns Cm all
193: and
194: .Fl f Ns Cm strict .
1.62 kristaps 195: .It Fl T Ns Cm ps
196: Produce PostScript output.
197: See
198: .Sx PostScript Output .
1.58 kristaps 199: .It Fl T Ns Cm tree
200: Produce an indented parse tree.
201: .It Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
1.57 kristaps 202: Produce strict XHTML-1.0 output, with a sane default style.
203: See
1.50 kristaps 204: .Sx XHTML Output .
1.1 kristaps 205: .El
1.13 kristaps 206: .Pp
207: If multiple input files are specified, these will be processed by the
208: corresponding filter in-order.
1.66 kristaps 209: .Ss ASCII Output
210: Output produced by
211: .Fl T Ns Cm ascii ,
212: which is the default, is rendered in standard 7-bit ASCII documented in
213: .Xr ascii 7 .
214: .Pp
215: Font styles are applied by using back-spaced encoding such that an
216: underlined character
217: .Sq c
218: is rendered as
219: .Sq _ Ns \e[bs] Ns c ,
220: where
221: .Sq \e[bs]
222: is the back-space character number 8.
223: Emboldened characters are rendered as
224: .Sq c Ns \e[bs] Ns c .
225: .Pp
226: The special characters documented in
227: .Xr mandoc_char 7
228: are rendered best-effort in an ASCII equivalent.
229: .Pp
230: Output width is limited to 78 visible columns unless literal input lines
231: exceed this limit.
232: .Pp
233: The following
234: .Fl O
235: arguments are accepted:
1.19 kristaps 236: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.66 kristaps 237: .It Cm width Ns = Ns Ar width
238: The output width is set to
239: .Ar width ,
240: which will normalise to \(>=60.
1.1 kristaps 241: .El
1.66 kristaps 242: .Ss HTML Output
243: Output produced by
244: .Fl T Ns Cm html
245: conforms to HTML-4.01 strict.
246: .Pp
247: Font styles and page structure are applied using CSS2.
248: By default, no font style is applied to any text,
249: although CSS2 is hard-coded to format
250: the basic structure of output.
251: .Pp
1.61 kristaps 252: The
1.66 kristaps 253: .Pa example.style.css
254: file documents the range of styles applied to output and, if used, will
255: cause rendered documents to appear as they do in
256: .Fl T Ns Cm ascii .
257: .Pp
258: Special characters are rendered in decimal-encoded UTF-8.
259: .Pp
260: The following
1.64 kristaps 261: .Fl O
1.66 kristaps 262: arguments are accepted:
1.37 kristaps 263: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.64 kristaps 264: .It Cm includes Ns = Ns Ar fmt
1.40 kristaps 265: The string
266: .Ar fmt ,
1.49 kristaps 267: for example,
1.40 kristaps 268: .Ar ../src/%I.html ,
269: is used as a template for linked header files (usually via the
270: .Sq \&In
1.57 kristaps 271: macro).
272: Instances of
1.43 kristaps 273: .Sq \&%I
1.57 kristaps 274: are replaced with the include filename.
275: The default is not to present a
1.40 kristaps 276: hyperlink.
1.64 kristaps 277: .It Cm man Ns = Ns Ar fmt
1.39 kristaps 278: The string
279: .Ar fmt ,
1.49 kristaps 280: for example,
1.39 kristaps 281: .Ar ../html%S/%N.%S.html ,
282: is used as a template for linked manuals (usually via the
1.37 kristaps 283: .Sq \&Xr
1.57 kristaps 284: macro).
285: Instances of
1.43 kristaps 286: .Sq \&%N
1.40 kristaps 287: and
288: .Sq %S
289: are replaced with the linked manual's name and section, respectively.
1.57 kristaps 290: If no section is included, section 1 is assumed.
291: The default is not to
1.40 kristaps 292: present a hyperlink.
1.64 kristaps 293: .It Cm style Ns = Ns Ar style.css
1.58 kristaps 294: The file
295: .Ar style.css
296: is used for an external style-sheet.
297: This must be a valid absolute or
298: relative URI.
1.61 kristaps 299: .El
1.62 kristaps 300: .Ss PostScript Output
1.65 kristaps 301: PostScript
302: .Qq Adobe-3.0
303: Level-2 pages may be generated by
1.62 kristaps 304: .Fl T Ns Cm ps .
1.67 kristaps 305: Output pages default to letter sized and are rendered in the Times font
1.70 ! kristaps 306: family, 11-point.
! 307: Margins are calculated as 1/9 the page length and width.
1.66 kristaps 308: .Pp
309: Special characters are rendered as in
310: .Sx ASCII Output .
311: .Pp
312: The following
313: .Fl O
314: arguments are accepted:
315: .Bl -tag -width Ds
316: .It Cm paper Ns = Ns Ar name
317: The paper size
318: .Ar name
319: may be one of
1.68 kristaps 320: .Ar a3 ,
321: .Ar a4 ,
322: .Ar a5 ,
323: .Ar legal ,
1.66 kristaps 324: or
325: .Ar letter .
1.68 kristaps 326: You may also manually specify dimensions as
327: .Ar NNxNN ,
328: width by height in millimetres.
329: If an unknown value is encountered,
330: .Ar letter
331: is used.
1.66 kristaps 332: .El
1.50 kristaps 333: .Ss XHTML Output
334: Output produced by
1.58 kristaps 335: .Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
1.50 kristaps 336: conforms to XHTML-1.0 strict.
337: .Pp
338: See
339: .Sx HTML Output
340: for details; beyond generating XHTML tags instead of HTML tags, these
341: output modes are identical.
1.1 kristaps 342: .Sh EXAMPLES
1.13 kristaps 343: To page manuals to the terminal:
1.1 kristaps 344: .Pp
1.58 kristaps 345: .D1 $ mandoc \-Wall,error \-fstrict mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less
346: .D1 $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less
1.28 kristaps 347: .Pp
1.41 kristaps 348: To produce HTML manuals with
349: .Ar style.css
350: as the style-sheet:
1.38 kristaps 351: .Pp
1.58 kristaps 352: .D1 $ mandoc \-Thtml -Ostyle=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html
1.38 kristaps 353: .Pp
1.28 kristaps 354: To check over a large set of manuals:
355: .Pp
1.58 kristaps 356: .Dl $ mandoc \-Tlint \-fign-errors `find /usr/src -name \e*\e.[1-9]`
1.66 kristaps 357: .Pp
358: To produce a series of PostScript manuals for A4 paper:
359: .Pp
360: .D1 $ mandoc \-Tps \-Opaper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps
1.20 kristaps 361: .Sh COMPATIBILITY
1.26 kristaps 362: This section summarises
1.20 kristaps 363: .Nm
1.26 kristaps 364: compatibility with
1.20 kristaps 365: .Xr groff 1 .
1.32 kristaps 366: Each input and output format is separately noted.
1.48 kristaps 367: .Ss ASCII Compatibility
1.37 kristaps 368: .Bl -bullet -compact
1.29 kristaps 369: .It
1.49 kristaps 370: The
1.29 kristaps 371: .Sq \e~
1.49 kristaps 372: special character doesn't produce expected behaviour in
1.58 kristaps 373: .Fl T Ns Cm ascii .
1.32 kristaps 374: .It
1.49 kristaps 375: The
1.33 kristaps 376: .Sq \&Bd \-literal
1.49 kristaps 377: and
1.32 kristaps 378: .Sq \&Bd \-unfilled
379: macros of
380: .Xr mdoc 7
381: in
1.58 kristaps 382: .Fl T Ns Cm ascii
1.32 kristaps 383: are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.
1.26 kristaps 384: .It
1.49 kristaps 385: In
1.27 kristaps 386: .Xr groff 1 ,
387: the
388: .Sq \&Pa
1.32 kristaps 389: .Xr mdoc 7
390: macro does not underline when scoped under an
1.30 kristaps 391: .Sq \&It
1.57 kristaps 392: in the FILES section.
393: This behaves correctly in
1.27 kristaps 394: .Nm .
395: .It
1.58 kristaps 396: A list or display following the
1.27 kristaps 397: .Sq \&Ss
1.32 kristaps 398: .Xr mdoc 7
399: macro in
1.58 kristaps 400: .Fl T Ns Cm ascii
1.20 kristaps 401: does not assert a prior vertical break, just as it doesn't with
1.27 kristaps 402: .Sq \&Sh .
1.20 kristaps 403: .It
1.32 kristaps 404: The
405: .Sq \&na
406: .Xr man 7
1.34 kristaps 407: macro in
1.58 kristaps 408: .Fl T Ns Cm ascii
1.34 kristaps 409: has no effect.
1.20 kristaps 410: .It
411: Words aren't hyphenated.
1.22 kristaps 412: .It
413: In normal mode (not a literal block), blocks of spaces aren't preserved,
1.32 kristaps 414: so double spaces following sentence closure are reduced to a single space;
415: .Xr groff 1
416: retains spaces.
417: .It
418: Sentences are unilaterally monospaced.
1.20 kristaps 419: .El
1.50 kristaps 420: .Ss HTML/XHTML Compatibility
1.42 kristaps 421: .Bl -bullet -compact
422: .It
423: The
1.47 kristaps 424: .Sq \efP
425: escape will revert the font to the previous
426: .Sq \ef
427: escape, not to the last rendered decoration, which is now dictated by
1.57 kristaps 428: CSS instead of hard-coded.
429: It also will not span past the current scope,
430: for the same reason.
431: Note that in
1.47 kristaps 432: .Sx ASCII Output
433: mode, this will work fine.
434: .It
435: The
1.42 kristaps 436: .Xr mdoc 7
437: .Sq \&Bl \-hang
438: and
439: .Sq \&Bl \-tag
440: list types render similarly (no break following overreached left-hand
441: side) due to the expressive constraints of HTML.
442: .It
443: The
444: .Xr man 7
445: .Sq IP
446: and
447: .Sq TP
448: lists render similarly.
449: .El
1.1 kristaps 450: .Sh SEE ALSO
1.57 kristaps 451: .Xr man 7 ,
1.13 kristaps 452: .Xr mandoc_char 7 ,
1.57 kristaps 453: .Xr mdoc 7
1.1 kristaps 454: .Sh AUTHORS
455: The
456: .Nm
1.26 kristaps 457: utility was written by
1.59 kristaps 458: .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@bsd.lv .
1.39 kristaps 459: .Sh CAVEATS
1.48 kristaps 460: The
1.58 kristaps 461: .Fl T Ns Cm html
1.50 kristaps 462: and
1.58 kristaps 463: .Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
1.48 kristaps 464: CSS2 styling used for
1.58 kristaps 465: .Fl m Ns Cm doc
1.51 kristaps 466: input lists does not render properly in older browsers, such as Internet
467: Explorer 6 and earlier.
1.48 kristaps 468: .Pp
1.39 kristaps 469: In
1.58 kristaps 470: .Fl T Ns Cm html
1.50 kristaps 471: and
1.58 kristaps 472: .Fl T Ns Cm xhtml ,
1.39 kristaps 473: the maximum size of an element attribute is determined by
474: .Dv BUFSIZ ,
1.57 kristaps 475: which is usually 1024 bytes.
476: Be aware of this when setting long link
1.58 kristaps 477: formats such as
478: .Fl O Ns Cm style Ns = Ns Ar really/long/link .
1.46 kristaps 479: .Pp
480: The
1.58 kristaps 481: .Fl T Ns Cm html
1.50 kristaps 482: and
1.58 kristaps 483: .Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
1.50 kristaps 484: output modes don't render the
1.46 kristaps 485: .Sq \es
1.47 kristaps 486: font size escape documented in
1.46 kristaps 487: .Xr mdoc 7
488: and
489: .Xr man 7 .
1.51 kristaps 490: .Pp
491: Nesting elements within next-line element scopes of
1.58 kristaps 492: .Fl m Ns Cm an ,
1.51 kristaps 493: such as
494: .Sq br
495: within an empty
496: .Sq B ,
497: will confuse
1.58 kristaps 498: .Fl T Ns Cm html
1.51 kristaps 499: and
1.58 kristaps 500: .Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
1.52 kristaps 501: and cause them to forget the formatting of the prior next-line scope.
1.53 kristaps 502: .Pp
503: The
504: .Sq i
505: macro in
1.58 kristaps 506: .Fl m Ns Cm an
1.53 kristaps 507: should italicise all subsequent text if a line argument is not provided.
508: This behaviour is not implemented.
1.54 kristaps 509: The
510: .Sq \(aq
1.55 kristaps 511: control character is an alias for the standard macro control character
512: and does not emit a line-break as stipulated in GNU troff.
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