=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mdoc.7,v retrieving revision 1.35 retrieving revision 1.292 diff -u -p -r1.35 -r1.292 --- mandoc/mdoc.7 2009/07/04 09:00:41 1.35 +++ mandoc/mdoc.7 2024/06/17 15:37:37 1.292 @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ -.\" $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.35 2009/07/04 09:00:41 kristaps Exp $ +.\" $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.292 2024/06/17 15:37:37 schwarze Exp $ .\" -.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons +.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons +.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013-2020 Ingo Schwarze .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -13,654 +14,3237 @@ .\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. -.\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 4 2009 $ +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: June 17 2024 $ .Dt MDOC 7 .Os -.\" SECTION .Sh NAME .Nm mdoc -.Nd mdoc language reference -.\" SECTION +.Nd semantic markup language for formatting manual pages .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm mdoc -language is used to format -.Bx -.Ux -manuals. In this reference document, we describe the syntax and -structure of the +language supports authoring of manual pages for the +.Xr man 1 +utility by allowing semantic annotations of words, phrases, +page sections and complete manual pages. +Such annotations are used by formatting tools to achieve a uniform +presentation across all manuals written in +.Nm , +and to support hyperlinking if supported by the output medium. +.Pp +This reference document describes the structure of manual pages +and the syntax and usage of the .Nm -language. Our reference implementation is -.Xr mandoc 1 . -The +language. +The reference implementation of a parsing and formatting tool is +.Xr mandoc 1 ; +the .Sx COMPATIBILITY -section describes compatibility with -.Xr groff 1 . -.\" PARAGRAPH +section describes compatibility with other implementations. .Pp -An +In an .Nm -document follows simple rules: lines beginning with the control -character -.Sq \. -are parsed for macros. Other lines are interpreted within the scope of -prior macros: -.Bd -literal -offset XXX +document, lines beginning with the control character +.Sq \&. +are called +.Dq macro lines . +The first word is the macro name. +It consists of two or three letters. +Most macro names begin with a capital letter. +For a list of available macros, see +.Sx MACRO OVERVIEW . +The words following the macro name are arguments to the macro, optionally +including the names of other, callable macros; see +.Sx MACRO SYNTAX +for details. +.Pp +Lines not beginning with the control character are called +.Dq text lines . +They provide free-form text to be printed; the formatting of the text +depends on the respective processing context: +.Bd -literal -offset indent \&.Sh Macro lines change control state. -Other lines are interpreted within the current state. +Text lines are interpreted within the current state. .Ed -.\" SECTION -.Sh INPUT ENCODING +.Pp +Many aspects of the basic syntax of the .Nm -documents may contain only graphable 7-bit ASCII characters, the space -character -.Sq \ , -and, in certain circumstances, the tab character -.Sq \et . -All manuals must have -.Sq \en -line termination. +language are based on the +.Xr roff 7 +language; see the +.Em LANGUAGE SYNTAX +and +.Em MACRO SYNTAX +sections in the +.Xr roff 7 +manual for details, in particular regarding +comments, escape sequences, whitespace, and quoting. +However, using +.Xr roff 7 +requests in +.Nm +documents is discouraged; +.Xr mandoc 1 +supports some of them merely for backward compatibility. +.Sh MANUAL STRUCTURE +A well-formed +.Nm +document consists of a document prologue followed by one or more +sections. .Pp -The only time a blank line is acceptable is within -the context of -.Sq \&.Bd \-literal +The prologue, which consists of the +.Ic \&Dd , +.Ic \&Dt , +and +.Ic \&Os +macros in that order, is required for every document. +.Pp +The first section (sections are denoted by +.Ic \&Sh ) +must be the NAME section, consisting of at least one +.Ic \&Nm +followed by +.Ic \&Nd . +.Pp +Following that, convention dictates specifying at least the +.Em SYNOPSIS +and +.Em DESCRIPTION +sections, although this varies between manual sections. +.Pp +The following is a well-formed skeleton +.Nm +file for a utility +.Qq progname : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Dd $\&Mdocdate$ +\&.Dt PROGNAME section +\&.Os +\&.Sh NAME +\&.Nm progname +\&.Nd one line about what it does +\&.\e\(dq .Sh LIBRARY +\&.\e\(dq For sections 2, 3, and 9 only. +\&.\e\(dq Not used in OpenBSD. +\&.Sh SYNOPSIS +\&.Nm progname +\&.Op Fl options +\&.Ar +\&.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +\&.Nm +utility processes files ... +\&.\e\(dq .Sh CONTEXT +\&.\e\(dq For section 9 functions only. +\&.\e\(dq .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES +\&.\e\(dq Not used in OpenBSD. +\&.\e\(dq .Sh RETURN VALUES +\&.\e\(dq For sections 2, 3, and 9 function return values only. +\&.\e\(dq .Sh ENVIRONMENT +\&.\e\(dq For sections 1, 6, 7, and 8 only. +\&.\e\(dq .Sh FILES +\&.\e\(dq .Sh EXIT STATUS +\&.\e\(dq For sections 1, 6, and 8 only. +\&.\e\(dq .Sh EXAMPLES +\&.\e\(dq .Sh DIAGNOSTICS +\&.\e\(dq For sections 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9 printf/stderr messages only. +\&.\e\(dq .Sh ERRORS +\&.\e\(dq For sections 2, 3, 4, and 9 errno settings only. +\&.\e\(dq .Sh SEE ALSO +\&.\e\(dq .Xr foobar 1 +\&.\e\(dq .Sh STANDARDS +\&.\e\(dq .Sh HISTORY +\&.\e\(dq .Sh AUTHORS +\&.\e\(dq .Sh CAVEATS +\&.\e\(dq .Sh BUGS +\&.\e\(dq .Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS +\&.\e\(dq Not used in OpenBSD. +.Ed +.Pp +The sections in an +.Nm +document are conventionally ordered as they appear above. +Sections should be composed as follows: +.Bl -ohang -offset Ds +.It Em NAME +The name(s) and a one line description of the documented material. +The syntax for this as follows: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Nm name0 , +\&.Nm name1 , +\&.Nm name2 +\&.Nd a one line description +.Ed +.Pp +Multiple +.Sq \&Nm +names should be separated by commas. +.Pp +The +.Ic \&Nm +macro(s) must precede the +.Ic \&Nd +macro. +.Pp +See +.Ic \&Nm +and +.Ic \&Nd . +.It Em LIBRARY +The name of the library containing the documented material, which is +assumed to be a function in a section 2, 3, or 9 manual. +The syntax for this is as follows: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Lb libarm +.Ed +.Pp +See +.Ic \&Lb . +.It Em SYNOPSIS +Documents the utility invocation syntax, function call syntax, or device +configuration. +.Pp +For the first, utilities (sections 1, 6, and 8), this is +generally structured as follows: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Nm bar +\&.Op Fl v +\&.Op Fl o Ar file +\&.Op Ar +\&.Nm foo +\&.Op Fl v +\&.Op Fl o Ar file +\&.Op Ar +.Ed +.Pp +Commands should be ordered alphabetically. +.Pp +For the second, function calls (sections 2, 3, 9): +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.In header.h +\&.Vt extern const char *global; +\&.Ft "char *" +\&.Fn foo "const char *src" +\&.Ft "char *" +\&.Fn bar "const char *src" +.Ed +.Pp +Ordering of +.Ic \&In , +.Ic \&Vt , +.Ic \&Fn , +and +.Ic \&Fo +macros should follow C header-file conventions. +.Pp +And for the third, configurations (section 4): +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Cd \(dqit* at isa? port 0x2e\(dq +\&.Cd \(dqit* at isa? port 0x4e\(dq +.Ed +.Pp +Manuals not in these sections generally don't need a +.Em SYNOPSIS . +.Pp +Some macros are displayed differently in the +.Em SYNOPSIS +section, particularly +.Ic \&Nm , +.Ic \&Cd , +.Ic \&Fd , +.Ic \&Fn , +.Ic \&Fo , +.Ic \&In , +.Ic \&Vt , +and +.Ic \&Ft . +All of these macros are output on their own line. +If two such dissimilar macros are pairwise invoked (except for +.Ic \&Ft +before +.Ic \&Fo or -.Sq \&.Bd \-unfilled . +.Ic \&Fn ) , +they are separated by a vertical space, unless in the case of +.Ic \&Fo , +.Ic \&Fn , +and +.Ic \&Ft , +which are always separated by vertical space. .Pp -Tab characters -.Pq \et -are only acceptable when delimiting -.Sq \&.Bl \-column -and in -.Sq \&.Bd \-literal +When text and macros following an +.Ic \&Nm +macro starting an input line span multiple output lines, +all output lines but the first will be indented to align +with the text immediately following the +.Ic \&Nm +macro, up to the next +.Ic \&Nm , +.Ic \&Sh , or -.Sq \&.Bd \-unfilled -contexts. -.\" SUB-SECTION -.Ss Comments -Anything following a -.Sq \e" -delimiter is considered a comment (unless the -.Sq \e -itself has been escaped) and is ignored to the end of line. -Furthermore, a macro line with only a control character -.Sq \. , -optionally followed by whitespace, is ignored. -.\" SUB-SECTION -.Ss Reserved Characters -Within a macro line, the following characters are reserved: -.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset XXXX -compact -.It \&. -.Pq period -.It \&, -.Pq comma -.It \&: -.Pq colon -.It \&; -.Pq semicolon -.It \&( -.Pq left-parenthesis -.It \&) -.Pq right-parenthesis -.It \&[ -.Pq left-bracket -.It \&] -.Pq right-bracket -.It \&? -.Pq question -.It \&! -.Pq exclamation -.It \&| -.Pq vertical bar -.El -.\" PARAGRAPH +.Ic \&Ss +macro or the end of an enclosing block, whichever comes first. +.It Em DESCRIPTION +This begins with an expansion of the brief, one line description in +.Em NAME : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +The +\&.Nm +utility does this, that, and the other. +.Ed .Pp -Use of reserved characters is described in -.Sx Closure . -For general non-reserved use, characters must either be escaped with a -non-breaking space -.Pq Sq \e& -or, if applicable, an appropriate escape-sequence used. -.\" SUB-SECTION -.Ss Special Characters -Special character sequences begin with the escape character -.Sq \e -followed by either an open-parenthesis -.Sq \&( -for two-character sequences; an open-bracket -.Sq \&[ -for n-character sequences (terminated at a close-bracket -.Sq \&] ) ; -or a single one-character sequence. +It usually follows with a breakdown of the options (if documenting a +command), such as: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +The options are as follows: +\&.Bl \-tag \-width Ds +\&.It Fl v +Print verbose information. +\&.El +.Ed .Pp -Characters may alternatively be escaped by a slash-asterisk, -.Sq \e* , -with the same combinations as described above. +List the options in alphabetical order, +uppercase before lowercase for each letter and +with no regard to whether an option takes an argument. +Put digits in ascending order before all letter options. .Pp -Terms may also be text-decorated using the -.Sq \ef -escape followed by a text-decoration letter: B (bold), I, (italic), or P -and R (Roman, or reset). This form is not recommended. -.\" SUB-SECTION -.Ss Whitespace -Unless in literal mode or specifically escaped, consecutive blocks of -whitespace are pruned from input. These are later re-added, if -applicable, by a front-end utility such as -.Xr mandoc 1 . -.\" SECTION -.Sh STRUCTURE -Each +Manuals not documenting a command won't include the above fragment. +.Pp +Since the +.Em DESCRIPTION +section usually contains most of the text of a manual, longer manuals +often use the +.Ic \&Ss +macro to form subsections. +In very long manuals, the +.Em DESCRIPTION +may be split into multiple sections, each started by an +.Ic \&Sh +macro followed by a non-standard section name, and each having +several subsections, like in the present .Nm -document must begin with the document prologue, containing, in order, -.Sq \&.Dd , -.Sq \&.Dt , +manual. +.It Em CONTEXT +This section lists the contexts in which functions can be called in section 9. +The contexts are autoconf, process, or interrupt. +.It Em IMPLEMENTATION NOTES +Implementation-specific notes should be kept here. +This is useful when implementing standard functions that may have side +effects or notable algorithmic implications. +.It Em RETURN VALUES +This section documents the +return values of functions in sections 2, 3, and 9. +.Pp +See +.Ic \&Rv . +.It Em ENVIRONMENT +Lists the environment variables used by the utility, +and explains the syntax and semantics of their values. +The +.Xr environ 7 +manual provides examples of typical content and formatting. +.Pp +See +.Ic \&Ev . +.It Em FILES +Documents files used. +It's helpful to document both the file name and a short description of how +the file is used (created, modified, etc.). +.Pp +See +.Ic \&Pa . +.It Em EXIT STATUS +This section documents the +command exit status for section 1, 6, and 8 utilities. +Historically, this information was described in +.Em DIAGNOSTICS , +a practise that is now discouraged. +.Pp +See +.Ic \&Ex . +.It Em EXAMPLES +Example usages. +This often contains snippets of well-formed, well-tested invocations. +Make sure that examples work properly! +.It Em DIAGNOSTICS +Documents error messages. +In section 4 and 9 manuals, these are usually messages printed by the +kernel to the console and to the kernel log. +In section 1, 6, 7, and 8, these are usually messages printed by +userland programs to the standard error output. +.Pp +Historically, this section was used in place of +.Em EXIT STATUS +for manuals in sections 1, 6, and 8; however, this practise is +discouraged. +.Pp +See +.Ic \&Bl +.Fl diag . +.It Em ERRORS +Documents +.Xr errno 2 +settings in sections 2, 3, 4, and 9. +.Pp +See +.Ic \&Er . +.It Em SEE ALSO +References other manuals with related topics. +This section should exist for most manuals. +Cross-references should conventionally be ordered first by section, then +alphabetically (ignoring case). +.Pp +References to other documentation concerning the topic of the manual page, +for example authoritative books or journal articles, may also be +provided in this section. +.Pp +See +.Ic \&Rs and -.Sq \&.Os . -Following these, the document body must begin with the NAME section -containing at least one -.Sq \&.Nm -followed by a -.Sq \&.Nd -macro. +.Ic \&Xr . +.It Em STANDARDS +References any standards implemented or used. +If not adhering to any standards, the +.Em HISTORY +section should be used instead. .Pp -At least one free-form or macro line must follow this prologue. -.\" -.Ss Classification -Macros are classified by their scope rules. Some macros are allowed to -deviate from their classifications to preserve backward-compatibility -with old macro combinations still found in the manual corpus. These are -specifically noted on a per-macro basis. -.\" SUB-SECTION -.Ss Scope -.Bl -inset -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It Em Block -macros enclose other block macros, in-line macros or text, and -may span multiple lines. -.Bl -inset -offset XXXX -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It Em Full-block -macros always span multiple lines. They consist of zero or -more -.Qq heads , -subsequent macros or text on the same line following invocation; an -optional -.Qq body , -which spans subsequent lines of text or macros; and an optional -.Qq tail , -macros or text on the same line following closure. -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It Em Partial-block -macros may span multiple lines. They consists of a optional -.Qq head , -text immediately following invocation; always a -.Qq body , -text or macros following the head on the same and subsequent lines; and -optionally a -.Qq tail , -text immediately following closure. -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It Em In-line -macros may only enclose text and span at most a single line. +See +.Ic \&St . +.It Em HISTORY +A brief history of the subject, including where it was first implemented, +and when it was ported to or reimplemented for the operating system at hand. +.It Em AUTHORS +Credits to the person or persons who wrote the code and/or documentation. +Authors should generally be noted by both name and email address. +.Pp +See +.Ic \&An . +.It Em CAVEATS +Common misuses and misunderstandings should be explained +in this section. +.It Em BUGS +Known bugs, limitations, and work-arounds should be described +in this section. +.It Em SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS +Documents any security precautions that operators should consider. .El +.Sh MACRO OVERVIEW +This overview is sorted such that macros of similar purpose are listed +together, to help find the best macro for any given purpose. +Deprecated macros are not included in the overview, but can be found below +in the alphabetical +.Sx MACRO REFERENCE . +.Ss Document preamble and NAME section macros +.Bl -column "Brq, Bro, Brc" description +.It Ic \&Dd Ta document date: Cm $\&Mdocdate$ | Ar month day , year +.It Ic \&Dt Ta document title: Ar TITLE section Op Ar arch +.It Ic \&Os Ta operating system footer: Op Ar footer text +.It Ic \&Nm Ta document name (one argument) +.It Ic \&Nd Ta document description (one line) .El -.\" SUB-SECTION -.Ss Closure -Closure of a macro's scope depends first on its classification, then -on whether it's parsable. In this table, -.Sq BFE -refers to block full-explicit and so on. -.\" PARAGRAPH +.Ss Sections and cross references +.Bl -column "Brq, Bro, Brc" description +.It Ic \&Sh Ta section header (one line) +.It Ic \&Ss Ta subsection header (one line) +.It Ic \&Sx Ta internal cross reference to a section or subsection +.It Ic \&Xr Ta cross reference to another manual page: Ar name section +.It Ic \&Tg Ta tag the definition of a Ar term Pq <= 1 arguments +.It Ic \&Pp Ta start a text paragraph (no arguments) +.El +.Ss Displays and lists +.Bl -column "Brq, Bro, Brc" description +.It Ic \&Bd , \&Ed Ta display block: +.Fl Ar type +.Op Fl offset Ar width +.Op Fl compact +.It Ic \&D1 Ta indented display (one line) +.It Ic \&Dl Ta indented literal display (one line) +.It Ic \&Ql Ta in-line literal display: Ql text +.It Ic \&Bl , \&El Ta list block: +.Fl Ar type +.Op Fl width Ar val +.Op Fl offset Ar val +.Op Fl compact +.It Ic \&It Ta list item (syntax depends on Fl Ar type ) +.It Ic \&Ta Ta table cell separator in Ic \&Bl Fl column No lists +.It Ic \&Rs , \&%* , \&Re Ta bibliographic block (references) +.El +.Ss Spacing control +.Bl -column "Brq, Bro, Brc" description +.It Ic \&Pf Ta prefix, no following horizontal space (one argument) +.It Ic \&Ns Ta roman font, no preceding horizontal space (no arguments) +.It Ic \&Ap Ta apostrophe without surrounding whitespace (no arguments) +.It Ic \&Sm Ta switch horizontal spacing mode: Op Cm on | off +.It Ic \&Bk , \&Ek Ta keep block: Fl words +.El +.Ss Semantic markup for command line utilities +.Bl -column "Brq, Bro, Brc" description +.It Ic \&Nm Ta start a SYNOPSIS block with the name of a utility +.It Ic \&Fl Ta command line options (flags) (>=0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Cm Ta command modifier (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Ar Ta command arguments (>=0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Op , \&Oo , \&Oc Ta optional syntax elements (enclosure) +.It Ic \&Ic Ta internal or interactive command (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Ev Ta environmental variable (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Pa Ta file system path (>=0 arguments) +.El +.Ss Semantic markup for function libraries +.Bl -column "Brq, Bro, Brc" description +.It Ic \&Lb Ta function library (one argument) +.It Ic \&In Ta include file (one argument) +.It Ic \&Fd Ta other preprocessor directive (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Ft Ta function type (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Fo , \&Fc Ta function block: Ar funcname +.It Ic \&Fn Ta function name: Ar funcname Op Ar argument ... +.It Ic \&Fa Ta function argument (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Vt Ta variable type (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Va Ta variable name (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Dv Ta defined variable or preprocessor constant (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Er Ta error constant (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Ev Ta environmental variable (>0 arguments) +.El +.Ss Various semantic markup +.Bl -column "Brq, Bro, Brc" description +.It Ic \&An Ta author name (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Lk Ta hyperlink: Ar uri Op Ar display_name +.It Ic \&Mt Ta Do mailto Dc hyperlink: Ar localpart Ns @ Ns Ar domain +.It Ic \&Cd Ta kernel configuration declaration (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Ad Ta memory address (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Ms Ta mathematical symbol (>0 arguments) +.El +.Ss Physical markup +.Bl -column "Brq, Bro, Brc" description +.It Ic \&Em Ta italic font or underline (emphasis) (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Sy Ta boldface font (symbolic) (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&No Ta return to roman font (normal) (>0 arguments) +.It Ic \&Bf , \&Ef Ta font block: Fl Ar type | Cm \&Em | \&Li | \&Sy +.El +.Ss Physical enclosures +.Bl -column "Brq, Bro, Brc" description +.It Ic \&Dq , \&Do , \&Dc Ta enclose in typographic double quotes: Dq text +.It Ic \&Qq , \&Qo , \&Qc Ta enclose in typewriter double quotes: Qq text +.It Ic \&Sq , \&So , \&Sc Ta enclose in single quotes: Sq text +.It Ic \&Pq , \&Po , \&Pc Ta enclose in parentheses: Pq text +.It Ic \&Bq , \&Bo , \&Bc Ta enclose in square brackets: Bq text +.It Ic \&Brq , \&Bro , \&Brc Ta enclose in curly braces: Brq text +.It Ic \&Aq , \&Ao , \&Ac Ta enclose in angle brackets: Aq text +.It Ic \&Eo , \&Ec Ta generic enclosure +.El +.Ss Text production +.Bl -column "Brq, Bro, Brc" description +.It Ic \&Ex Fl std Ta standard command exit values: Op Ar utility ... +.It Ic \&Rv Fl std Ta standard function return values: Op Ar function ... +.It Ic \&St Ta reference to a standards document (one argument) +.It Ic \&At Ta At +.It Ic \&Bx Ta Bx +.It Ic \&Bsx Ta Bsx +.It Ic \&Nx Ta Nx +.It Ic \&Fx Ta Fx +.It Ic \&Ox Ta Ox +.It Ic \&Dx Ta Dx +.El +.Sh MACRO REFERENCE +This section is a canonical reference of all macros, arranged +alphabetically. +For the scoping of individual macros, see +.Sx MACRO SYNTAX . +.Bl -tag -width 3n +.It Ic \&%A Ar first_name ... last_name +Author name of an +.Ic \&Rs +block. +Multiple authors should each be accorded their own +.Ic \%%A +line. +Author names should be ordered with full or abbreviated forename(s) +first, then full surname. +.It Ic \&%B Ar title +Book title of an +.Ic \&Rs +block. +This macro may also be used in a non-bibliographic context when +referring to book titles. +.It Ic \&%C Ar location +Publication city or location of an +.Ic \&Rs +block. +.It Ic \&%D Oo Ar month day , Oc Ar year +Publication date of an +.Ic \&Rs +block. +Provide the full English name of the +.Ar month +and all four digits of the +.Ar year . +.It Ic \&%I Ar name +Publisher or issuer name of an +.Ic \&Rs +block. +.It Ic \&%J Ar name +Journal name of an +.Ic \&Rs +block. +.It Ic \&%N Ar number +Issue number (usually for journals) of an +.Ic \&Rs +block. +.It Ic \&%O Ar line +Optional information of an +.Ic \&Rs +block. +.It Ic \&%P Ar number +Book or journal page number of an +.Ic \&Rs +block. +Conventionally, the argument starts with +.Ql p.\& +for a single page or +.Ql pp.\& +for a range of pages, for example: .Pp -.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset XXXX -compact -.It BPE , BFE -corresponding explicit closure macro -.It BFI -end-of-file or a corresponding implicit closure macro -.It BPI -end-of-line (body may be closed by >0 space-separated -.Sx Reserved Characters , -although block scope will still be open) -.It INL -end-of-line +.Dl .%P pp. 42\e(en47 +.It Ic \&%Q Ar name +Institutional author (school, government, etc.) of an +.Ic \&Rs +block. +Multiple institutional authors should each be accorded their own +.Ic \&%Q +line. +.It Ic \&%R Ar name +Technical report name of an +.Ic \&Rs +block. +.It Ic \&%T Ar title +Article title of an +.Ic \&Rs +block. +This macro may also be used in a non-bibliographical context when +referring to article titles. +.It Ic \&%U Ar protocol Ns :// Ns Ar path +URI of reference document. +.It Ic \&%V Ar number +Volume number of an +.Ic \&Rs +block. +.It Ic \&Ac +Close an +.Ic \&Ao +block. +Does not have any tail arguments. +.Tg Ad +.It Ic \&Ad Ar address +Memory address. +Do not use this for postal addresses. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Ad [0,$] +.Dl \&.Ad 0x00000000 +.Tg An +.It Ic \&An Fl split | nosplit | Ar first_name ... last_name +Author name. +Can be used both for the authors of the program, function, or driver +documented in the manual, or for the authors of the manual itself. +Requires either the name of an author or one of the following arguments: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width "-nosplitX" -offset indent -compact +.It Fl split +Start a new output line before each subsequent invocation of +.Ic \&An . +.It Fl nosplit +The opposite of +.Fl split . .El -.\" PARAGRAPH .Pp -If a macro (block or in-line) is parsable, it may also be closed out by -one of the following scenarios (unless specifically noted otherwise): -.\" PARAGRAPH +The default is +.Fl nosplit . +The effect of selecting either of the +.Fl split +modes ends at the beginning of the +.Em AUTHORS +section. +In the +.Em AUTHORS +section, the default is +.Fl nosplit +for the first author listing and +.Fl split +for all other author listings. .Pp -.Bl -dash -offset XXXX -compact -.It -a sequence of >0 space-separated -.Sx Reserved Characters , +Examples: +.Dl \&.An -nosplit +.Dl \&.An Kristaps Dzonsons \&Aq \&Mt kristaps@bsd.lv +.It Ic \&Ao Ar block +Begin a block enclosed by angle brackets. +Does not have any head arguments. +This macro is almost never useful. +See +.Ic \&Aq +for more details. +.Tg Ap +.It Ic \&Ap +Inserts an apostrophe without any surrounding whitespace. +This is generally used as a grammatical device when referring to the verb +form of a function. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Fn execve \&Ap d +.Tg Aq +.It Ic \&Aq Ar line +Enclose the rest of the input line in angle brackets. +The only important use case is for email addresses. +See +.Ic \&Mt +for an example. +.Pp +Occasionally, it is used for names of characters and keys, for example: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +Press the +\&.Aq escape +key to ... +.Ed +.Pp +For URIs, use +.Ic \&Lk +instead, and +.Ic \&In +for +.Dq #include +directives. +Never wrap +.Ic \&Ar +in +.Ic \&Aq . +.Pp +Since +.Ic \&Aq +usually renders with non-ASCII characters in non-ASCII output modes, +do not use it where the ASCII characters +.Sq < +and +.Sq > +are required as syntax elements. +Instead, use these characters directly in such cases, combining them +with the macros +.Ic \&Pf , +.Ic \&Ns , +or +.Ic \&Eo +as needed. +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Ao . +.Tg Ar +.It Ic \&Ar Op Ar placeholder ... +Command arguments. +If an argument is not provided, the string +.Dq file ...\& +is used as a default. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl ".Fl o Ar file" +.Dl ".Ar" +.Dl ".Ar arg1 , arg2 ." +.Pp +The arguments to the +.Ic \&Ar +macro are names and placeholders for command arguments; +for fixed strings to be passed verbatim as arguments, use +.Ic \&Fl +or +.Ic \&Cm . +.Tg At +.It Ic \&At Op Ar version +Formats an +.At +version. +Accepts one optional argument: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width "v[1-7] | 32vX" -offset indent -compact +.It Cm v[1-7] | 32v +A version of +.At . +.It Cm III +.At III . +.It Cm V | V.[1-4] +A version of +.At V . +.El +.Pp +Note that these arguments do not begin with a hyphen. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.At +.Dl \&.At III +.Dl \&.At V.1 +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Bsx , +.Ic \&Bx , +.Ic \&Dx , +.Ic \&Fx , +.Ic \&Nx , +and +.Ic \&Ox . +.It Ic \&Bc +Close a +.Ic \&Bo +block. +Does not have any tail arguments. +.Tg Bd +.It Ic \&Bd Fl Ns Ar type Oo Fl offset Ar width Oc Op Fl compact +Begin a display block. +Display blocks are used to select a different indentation and +justification than the one used by the surrounding text. +They may contain both macro lines and text lines. +By default, a display block is preceded by a vertical space. +.Pp +The +.Ar type +must be one of the following: +.Bl -tag -width 13n -offset indent +.It Fl centered +Produce one output line from each input line, and center-justify each line. +Using this display type is not recommended; many +.Nm +implementations render it poorly. +.It Fl filled +Change the positions of line breaks to fill each line, and left- and +right-justify the resulting block. +.It Fl literal +Produce one output line from each input line, +and do not justify the block at all. +Preserve white space as it appears in the input. +Always use a constant-width font. +Use this for displaying source code. +.It Fl ragged +Change the positions of line breaks to fill each line, and left-justify +the resulting block. +.It Fl unfilled +The same as +.Fl literal , +but using the same font as for normal text, which is a variable width font +if supported by the output device. +.El +.Pp +The +.Ar type +must be provided first. +Additional arguments may follow: +.Bl -tag -width 13n -offset indent +.It Fl offset Ar width +Indent the display by the +.Ar width , +which may be one of the following: +.Bl -item .It -another macro, +One of the pre-defined strings +.Cm indent , +the width of a standard indentation (six constant width characters); +.Cm indent-two , +twice +.Cm indent ; +.Cm left , +which has no effect; +.Cm right , +which justifies to the right margin; or +.Cm center , +which aligns around an imagined center axis. .It -end-of-line, or +A macro invocation, which selects a predefined width +associated with that macro. +The most popular is the imaginary macro +.Ar \&Ds , +which resolves to +.Sy 6n . .It -completion of a set number of arguments. +A scaling width as described in +.Xr roff 7 . +.It +An arbitrary string, which indents by the length of this string. .El -.\" PARAGRAPH .Pp -If >0 space-separated -.Sx Reserved Characters -are followed by non-reserved characters, the behaviour differs per -macro. In general, scope of the macro is closed and re-opened: -subsequent tokens are interpreted as if the scope had just been opened. -In other circumstances, scope is simply closed out. -.\" SECTION -.Sh SYNTAX -Macros are two or three characters in length. The syntax of macro -invocation depends on its classification. -.Qq \-arg -refers to the macro arguments (which may contain zero or more values). -In these illustrations, -.Sq \&.Yo -opens the scope of a macro, and if specified, -.Sq \&.Yc -closes it out (closure may be implicit at end-of-line or end-of-file). -.\" PARAGRAPH +When the argument is missing, +.Fl offset +is ignored. +.It Fl compact +Do not assert vertical space before the display. +.El .Pp -Block full-explicit (may contain head, body, tail). -.Bd -literal -offset XXXX -\&.Yo \(lB\-arg \(lBval...\(rB\(rB \(lBhead...\(rB -\(lBbody...\(rB -\&.Yc \(lBtail...\(rB +Examples: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Bd \-literal \-offset indent \-compact + Hello world. +\&.Ed .Ed -.\" PARAGRAPH .Pp -Block full-implicit (may contain zero or more heads, body, no tail). -.Bd -literal -offset XXXX -\&.Yo \(lB\-arg \(lBval...\(rB\(rB \(lBhead... \(lBTa head...\(rB\(rB -\(lBbody...\(rB -\&.Yc +See also +.Ic \&D1 +and +.Ic \&Dl . +.Tg Bf +.It Ic \&Bf Fl emphasis | literal | symbolic | Cm \&Em | \&Li | \&Sy +Change the font mode for a scoped block of text. +The +.Fl emphasis +and +.Cm \&Em +argument are equivalent, as are +.Fl symbolic +and +.Cm \&Sy , +and +.Fl literal +and +.Cm \&Li . +Without an argument, this macro does nothing. +The font mode continues until broken by a new font mode in a nested +scope or +.Ic \&Ef +is encountered. +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Li , +.Ic \&Ef , +.Ic \&Em , +and +.Ic \&Sy . +.Tg Bk +.It Ic \&Bk Fl words +For each macro, keep its output together on the same output line, +until the end of the macro or the end of the input line is reached, +whichever comes first. +Line breaks in text lines are unaffected. +.Pp +The +.Fl words +argument is required; additional arguments are ignored. +.Pp +The following example will not break within each +.Ic \&Op +macro line: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Bk \-words +\&.Op Fl f Ar flags +\&.Op Fl o Ar output +\&.Ek .Ed -.\" PARAGRAPH .Pp -Block partial-explicit (may contain head, multi-line body, tail). -.Bd -literal -offset XXXX -\&.Yo \(lB\-arg \(lBval...\(rB\(rB \(lBhead...\(rB -\(lBbody...\(rB -\&.Yc \(lBtail...\(rB - -\&.Yo \(lB\-arg \(lBval...\(rB\(rB \(lBhead...\(rB \ -\(lBbody...\(rB \&Yc \(lBtail...\(rB +Be careful in using over-long lines within a keep block! +Doing so will clobber the right margin. +.Tg Bl +.It Xo +.Ic \&Bl +.Fl Ns Ar type +.Op Fl width Ar val +.Op Fl offset Ar val +.Op Fl compact +.Op Ar col ... +.Xc +Begin a list. +Lists consist of items specified using the +.Ic \&It +macro, containing a head or a body or both. +.Pp +The list +.Ar type +is mandatory and must be specified first. +The +.Fl width +and +.Fl offset +arguments accept macro names as described for +.Ic \&Bd +.Fl offset , +scaling widths as described in +.Xr roff 7 , +or use the length of the given string. +The +.Fl offset +is a global indentation for the whole list, affecting both item heads +and bodies. +For those list types supporting it, the +.Fl width +argument requests an additional indentation of item bodies, +to be added to the +.Fl offset . +Unless the +.Fl compact +argument is specified, list entries are separated by vertical space. +.Pp +A list must specify one of the following list types: +.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset indent +.It Fl bullet +No item heads can be specified, but a bullet will be printed at the head +of each item. +Item bodies start on the same output line as the bullet +and are indented according to the +.Fl width +argument. +.It Fl column +A columnated list. +The +.Fl width +argument has no effect; instead, the string length of each argument +specifies the width of one column. +If the first line of the body of a +.Fl column +list is not an +.Ic \&It +macro line, +.Ic \&It +contexts spanning one input line each are implied until an +.Ic \&It +macro line is encountered, at which point items start being interpreted as +described in the +.Ic \&It +documentation. +.It Fl dash +Like +.Fl bullet , +except that dashes are used in place of bullets. +.It Fl diag +Like +.Fl inset , +except that item heads are not parsed for macro invocations. +Most often used in the +.Em DIAGNOSTICS +section with error constants in the item heads. +.It Fl enum +A numbered list. +No item heads can be specified. +Formatted like +.Fl bullet , +except that ordinal numbers are used in place of bullets, +starting at 1. +.It Fl hang +Like +.Fl tag , +except that the first lines of item bodies are not indented, but follow +the item heads like in +.Fl inset +lists. +.It Fl hyphen +Synonym for +.Fl dash . +.It Fl inset +Item bodies follow items heads on the same line, using normal inter-word +spacing. +Bodies are not indented, and the +.Fl width +argument is ignored. +.It Fl item +No item heads can be specified, and none are printed. +Bodies are not indented, and the +.Fl width +argument is ignored. +.It Fl ohang +Item bodies start on the line following item heads and are not indented. +The +.Fl width +argument is ignored. +.It Fl tag +Item bodies are indented according to the +.Fl width +argument. +When an item head fits inside the indentation, the item body follows +this head on the same output line. +Otherwise, the body starts on the output line following the head. +.El +.Pp +Lists may be nested within lists and displays. +Nesting of +.Fl column +and +.Fl enum +lists may not be portable. +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&El +and +.Ic \&It . +.It Ic \&Bo Ar block +Begin a block enclosed by square brackets. +Does not have any head arguments. +.Pp +Examples: +.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact +\&.Bo 1 , +\&.Dv BUFSIZ \&Bc .Ed -.\" PARAGRAPH .Pp -Block partial-implicit (no head, body, no tail). Note that the body -section may be followed by zero or more -.Sx Reserved Words . -These are in the block scope, but not in the body scope. -.Bd -literal -offset XXXX -\&.Yo \(lB\-arg \(lBval...\(rB\(rB \(lBbody...\(rB \(lBreserved...\(rB +See also +.Ic \&Bq . +.Tg Bq +.It Ic \&Bq Ar line +Encloses its arguments in square brackets. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Bq 1 , \&Dv BUFSIZ +.Pp +.Em Remarks : +this macro is sometimes abused to emulate optional arguments for +commands; the correct macros to use for this purpose are +.Ic \&Op , +.Ic \&Oo , +and +.Ic \&Oc . +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Bo . +.It Ic \&Brc +Close a +.Ic \&Bro +block. +Does not have any tail arguments. +.It Ic \&Bro Ar block +Begin a block enclosed by curly braces. +Does not have any head arguments. +.Pp +Examples: +.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact +\&.Bro 1 , ... , +\&.Va n \&Brc .Ed -.\" PARAGRAPH .Pp -In-lines have \(>=0 scoped arguments. -.Bd -literal -offset XXX -\&.Yy \(lB\-arg \(lBval...\(rB\(rB \(lBargs...\(rB - -\&.Yy \(lB\-arg \(lBval...\(rB\(rB arg0 arg1 argN +See also +.Ic \&Brq . +.Tg Brq +.It Ic \&Brq Ar line +Encloses its arguments in curly braces. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Brq 1 , ... , \&Va n +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Bro . +.Tg Bsx +.It Ic \&Bsx Op Ar version +Format the +.Bsx +version provided as an argument, or a default value if +no argument is provided. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Bsx 1.0 +.Dl \&.Bsx +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&At , +.Ic \&Bx , +.Ic \&Dx , +.Ic \&Fx , +.Ic \&Nx , +and +.Ic \&Ox . +.It Ic \&Bt +Supported only for compatibility, do not use this in new manuals. +Prints +.Dq is currently in beta test. +.Tg Bx +.It Ic \&Bx Op Ar version Op Ar variant +Format the +.Bx +version provided as an argument, or a default value if no +argument is provided. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Bx 4.3 Tahoe +.Dl \&.Bx 4.4 +.Dl \&.Bx +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&At , +.Ic \&Bsx , +.Ic \&Dx , +.Ic \&Fx , +.Ic \&Nx , +and +.Ic \&Ox . +.Tg Cd +.It Ic \&Cd Ar line +Kernel configuration declaration. +This denotes strings accepted by +.Xr config 8 . +It is most often used in section 4 manual pages. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Cd device le0 at scode? +.Pp +.Em Remarks : +this macro is commonly abused by using quoted literals to retain +whitespace and align consecutive +.Ic \&Cd +declarations. +This practise is discouraged. +.Tg Cm +.It Ic \&Cm Ar keyword ... +Command modifiers. +Typically used for fixed strings passed as arguments to interactive +commands, to commands in interpreted scripts, or to configuration +file directives, unless +.Ic \&Fl +is more appropriate. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl ".Nm mt Fl f Ar device Cm rewind" +.Dl ".Nm ps Fl o Cm pid , Ns Cm command" +.Dl ".Nm dd Cm if= Ns Ar file1 Cm of= Ns Ar file2" +.Dl ".Ic set Fl o Cm vi" +.Dl ".Ic lookup Cm file bind" +.Dl ".Ic permit Ar identity Op Cm as Ar target" +.Tg D1 +.It Ic \&D1 Ar line +One-line indented display. +This is formatted by the default rules and is useful for simple indented +statements. +It is followed by a newline. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.D1 \&Fl abcdefgh +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Bd +and +.Ic \&Dl . +.It Ic \&Db +This macro is obsolete. +No replacement is needed. +It is ignored by +.Xr mandoc 1 +and groff including its arguments. +It was formerly used to toggle a debugging mode. +.It Ic \&Dc +Close a +.Ic \&Do +block. +Does not have any tail arguments. +.Tg Dd +.It Ic \&Dd Cm $\&Mdocdate$ | Ar month day , year +Document date for display in the page footer, +by convention the date of the last change. +This is the mandatory first macro of any +.Nm +manual. +.Pp +The +.Ar month +is the full English month name, the +.Ar day +is an integer number, and the +.Ar year +is the full four-digit year. +.Pp +Other arguments are not portable; the +.Xr mandoc 1 +utility handles them as follows: +.Bl -dash -offset 3n -compact +.It +To have the date automatically filled in by the +.Ox +version of +.Xr cvs 1 , +the special string +.Dq $\&Mdocdate$ +can be given as an argument. +.It +The traditional, purely numeric +.Xr man 7 +format +.Ar year Ns \(en Ns Ar month Ns \(en Ns Ar day +is accepted, too. +.It +If a date string cannot be parsed, it is used verbatim. +.It +If no date string is given, the current date is used. +.El +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Dd $\&Mdocdate$ +.Dl \&.Dd $\&Mdocdate: July 2 2018$ +.Dl \&.Dd July 2, 2018 +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Dt +and +.Ic \&Os . +.Tg Dl +.It Ic \&Dl Ar line +One-line indented display. +This is formatted as literal text and is useful for commands and +invocations. +It is followed by a newline. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Dl % mandoc mdoc.7 \e(ba less +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Ql , +.Ic \&Bd Fl literal , +and +.Ic \&D1 . +.It Ic \&Do Ar block +Begin a block enclosed by double quotes. +Does not have any head arguments. +.Pp +Examples: +.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact +\&.Do +April is the cruellest month +\&.Dc +\e(em T.S. Eliot .Ed -.\" SECTION -.Sh MACROS -This section contains a complete list of all +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Dq . +.Tg Dq +.It Ic \&Dq Ar line +Encloses its arguments in +.Dq typographic +double-quotes. +.Pp +Examples: +.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact +\&.Dq April is the cruellest month +\e(em T.S. Eliot +.Ed +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Qq , +.Ic \&Sq , +and +.Ic \&Do . +.Tg Dt +.It Ic \&Dt Ar TITLE section Op Ar arch +Document title for display in the page header. +This is the mandatory second macro of any .Nm -macros, arranged by classification. A -.Qq callable -macro is invoked subsequent to the initial macro-line macro. A -.Qq parsable -macro may be followed by further (ostensibly callable) macros. -.\" SUB-SECTION -.Ss Block full-implicit -The head of these macros follows invocation; the body is the content of -subsequent lines prior to closure. None of these macros have tails; -some -.Po -.Sq \&.It \-bullet , -.Sq \-hyphen , -.Sq \-dash , -.Sq \-enum , -.Sq \-item -.Pc -don't have heads. +file. .Pp -.Bl -column -compact -offset XXXX "MacroX" "CallableX" "ParsableX" "Closing" -.It Em Macro Ta Em Callable Ta Em Parsable Ta Em Closing -.It \&.Sh Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta \&.Sh -.It \&.Ss Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta \&.Sh, \&.Ss -.It \&.It Ta \&No Ta Yes Ta \&.It, \&.El +Its arguments are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width section -offset 2n +.It Ar TITLE +The document's title (name), defaulting to +.Dq UNTITLED +if unspecified. +To achieve a uniform appearance of page header lines, +it should by convention be all caps. +.It Ar section +The manual section. +This may be one of +.Cm 1 +.Pq General Commands , +.Cm 2 +.Pq System Calls , +.Cm 3 +.Pq Library Functions , +.Cm 3p +.Pq Perl Library , +.Cm 4 +.Pq Device Drivers , +.Cm 5 +.Pq File Formats , +.Cm 6 +.Pq Games , +.Cm 7 +.Pq Miscellaneous Information , +.Cm 8 +.Pq System Manager's Manual , +or +.Cm 9 +.Pq Kernel Developer's Manual . +It should correspond to the manual's filename suffix and defaults to +the empty string if unspecified. +.It Ar arch +This specifies the machine architecture a manual page applies to, +where relevant, for example +.Cm alpha , +.Cm amd64 , +.Cm i386 , +or +.Cm sparc64 . +The list of valid architectures varies by operating system. .El -.\" SUB-SECTION -.Ss Block full-explicit -None of these macros are callable or parsed. The last column indicates -the explicit scope rules. All contains bodies, some may contain heads -.Pq So \&Bf Sc . .Pp -.Bl -column -compact -offset XXXX "MacroX" "CallableX" "ParsableX" "closed by XXX" -.It Em Macro Ta Em Callable Ta Em Parsable Ta Em Scope -.It \&.Bd Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta closed by \&.Ed -.It \&.Ed Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta opened by \&.Bd -.It \&.Bl Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta closed by \&.El -.It \&.El Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta opened by \&.Bl -.It \&.Bf Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta closed by \&.Ef -.It \&.Ef Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta opened by \&.Bf -.It \&.Bk Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta closed by \&.Ek -.It \&.Ek Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta opened by \&.Bk +Examples: +.Dl \&.Dt FOO 1 +.Dl \&.Dt FOO 9 i386 +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Dd +and +.Ic \&Os . +.Tg Dv +.It Ic \&Dv Ar identifier ... +Defined variables such as preprocessor constants, constant symbols, +enumeration values, and so on. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Dv NULL +.Dl \&.Dv BUFSIZ +.Dl \&.Dv STDOUT_FILENO +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Er +and +.Ic \&Ev +for special-purpose constants, +.Ic \&Va +for variable symbols, and +.Ic \&Fd +for listing preprocessor variable definitions in the +.Em SYNOPSIS . +.Tg Dx +.It Ic \&Dx Op Ar version +Format the +.Dx +version provided as an argument, or a default +value if no argument is provided. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Dx 2.4.1 +.Dl \&.Dx +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&At , +.Ic \&Bsx , +.Ic \&Bx , +.Ic \&Fx , +.Ic \&Nx , +and +.Ic \&Ox . +.It Ic \&Ec Op Ar closing_delimiter +Close a scope started by +.Ic \&Eo . +.Pp +The +.Ar closing_delimiter +argument is used as the enclosure tail, for example, specifying \e(rq +will emulate +.Ic \&Dc . +.It Ic \&Ed +End a display context started by +.Ic \&Bd . +.It Ic \&Ef +End a font mode context started by +.Ic \&Bf . +.It Ic \&Ek +End a keep context started by +.Ic \&Bk . +.It Ic \&El +End a list context started by +.Ic \&Bl . +See also +.Ic \&It . +.Tg Em +.It Ic \&Em Ar word ... +Request an italic font. +If the output device does not provide that, underline. +.Pp +This is most often used for stress emphasis (not to be confused with +importance, see +.Ic \&Sy ) . +In the rare cases where none of the semantic markup macros fit, +it can also be used for technical terms and placeholders, except +that for syntax elements, +.Ic \&Sy +and +.Ic \&Ar +are preferred, respectively. +.Pp +Examples: +.Bd -literal -compact -offset indent +Selected lines are those +\&.Em not +matching any of the specified patterns. +Some of the functions use a +\&.Em hold space +to save the pattern space for subsequent retrieval. +.Ed +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&No , +.Ic \&Ql , +and +.Ic \&Sy . +.It Ic \&En Ar word ... +This macro is obsolete. +Use +.Ic \&Eo +or any of the other enclosure macros. +.Pp +It encloses its argument in the delimiters specified by the last +.Ic \&Es +macro. +.Tg Eo +.It Ic \&Eo Op Ar opening_delimiter +An arbitrary enclosure. +The +.Ar opening_delimiter +argument is used as the enclosure head, for example, specifying \e(lq +will emulate +.Ic \&Do . +.Tg Er +.It Ic \&Er Ar identifier ... +Error constants for definitions of the +.Va errno +libc global variable. +This is most often used in section 2 and 3 manual pages. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Er EPERM +.Dl \&.Er ENOENT +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Dv +for general constants. +.It Ic \&Es Ar opening_delimiter closing_delimiter +This macro is obsolete. +Use +.Ic \&Eo +or any of the other enclosure macros. +.Pp +It takes two arguments, defining the delimiters to be used by subsequent +.Ic \&En +macros. +.Tg Ev +.It Ic \&Ev Ar identifier ... +Environmental variables such as those specified in +.Xr environ 7 . +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Ev DISPLAY +.Dl \&.Ev PATH +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Dv +for general constants. +.Tg Ex +.It Ic \&Ex Fl std Op Ar utility ... +Insert a standard sentence regarding command exit values of 0 on success +and >0 on failure. +This is most often used in section 1, 6, and 8 manual pages. +.Pp +If +.Ar utility +is not specified, the document's name set by +.Ic \&Nm +is used. +Multiple +.Ar utility +arguments are treated as separate utilities. +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Rv . +.Tg Fa +.It Ic \&Fa Ar argument ... +Function argument or parameter. +Each argument may be a name and a type (recommended for the +.Em SYNOPSIS +section), a name alone (for function invocations), +or a type alone (for function prototypes). +If both a type and a name are given or if the type consists of multiple +words, all words belonging to the same function argument have to be +given in a single argument to the +.Ic \&Fa +macro. +.Pp +This macro is also used to specify the field name of a structure. +.Pp +Most often, the +.Ic \&Fa +macro is used in the +.Em SYNOPSIS +within +.Ic \&Fo +blocks when documenting multi-line function prototypes. +If invoked with multiple arguments, the arguments are separated by a +comma. +Furthermore, if the following macro is another +.Ic \&Fa , +the last argument will also have a trailing comma. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Fa \(dqconst char *p\(dq +.Dl \&.Fa \(dqint a\(dq \(dqint b\(dq \(dqint c\(dq +.Dl \&.Fa \(dqchar *\(dq size_t +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Fo . +.It Ic \&Fc +End a function context started by +.Ic \&Fo . +.Tg Fd +.It Ic \&Fd Pf # Ar directive Op Ar argument ... +Preprocessor directive, in particular for listing it in the +.Em SYNOPSIS . +Historically, it was also used to document include files. +The latter usage has been deprecated in favour of +.Ic \&In . +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Fd #define sa_handler __sigaction_u.__sa_handler +.Dl \&.Fd #define SIO_MAXNFDS +.Dl \&.Fd #ifdef FS_DEBUG +.Dl \&.Ft void +.Dl \&.Fn dbg_open \(dqconst char *\(dq +.Dl \&.Fd #endif +.Pp +See also +.Sx MANUAL STRUCTURE , +.Ic \&In , +and +.Ic \&Dv . +.Tg Fl +.It Ic \&Fl Op Ar word ... +Command-line flag or option. +Used when listing arguments to command-line utilities. +For each argument, prints an ASCII hyphen-minus character +.Sq \- , +immediately followed by the argument. +If no arguments are provided, a hyphen-minus is printed followed by a space. +If the argument is a macro, a hyphen-minus is prefixed +to the subsequent macro output. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl ".Nm du Op Fl H | L | P" +.Dl ".Nm ls Op Fl 1AaCcdFfgHhikLlmnopqRrSsTtux" +.Dl ".Nm route Cm add Fl inet Ar destination gateway" +.Dl ".Nm locate.updatedb Op Fl \e-fcodes Ns = Ns Ar dbfile" +.Dl ".Nm aucat Fl o Fl" +.Dl ".Nm kill Fl Ar signal_number" +.Pp +For GNU-style long options, escaping the additional hyphen-minus is not +strictly required, but may be safer with future versions of GNU troff; see +.Xr mandoc_char 7 +for details. +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Cm . +.Tg Fn +.It Ic \&Fn Ar funcname Op Ar argument ... +A function name. +.Pp +Function arguments are surrounded in parenthesis and +are delimited by commas. +If no arguments are specified, blank parenthesis are output. +In the +.Em SYNOPSIS +section, this macro starts a new output line, +and a blank line is automatically inserted between function definitions. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Fn \(dqint funcname\(dq \(dqint arg0\(dq \(dqint arg1\(dq +.Dl \&.Fn funcname \(dqint arg0\(dq +.Dl \&.Fn funcname arg0 +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Ft functype +\&.Fn funcname +.Ed +.Pp +When referring to a function documented in another manual page, use +.Ic \&Xr +instead. +See also +.Sx MANUAL STRUCTURE , +.Ic \&Fo , +and +.Ic \&Ft . +.Tg Fo +.It Ic \&Fo Ar funcname +Begin a function block. +This is a multi-line version of +.Ic \&Fn . +.Pp +Invocations usually occur in the following context: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Pf \. Ic \&Ft Ar functype +.br +.Pf \. Ic \&Fo Ar funcname +.br +.Pf \. Ic \&Fa Qq Ar argtype Ar argname +.br +\&.\.\. +.br +.Pf \. Ic \&Fc +.Ed +.Pp +A +.Ic \&Fo +scope is closed by +.Ic \&Fc . +.Pp +See also +.Sx MANUAL STRUCTURE , +.Ic \&Fa , +.Ic \&Fc , +and +.Ic \&Ft . +.It Ic \&Fr Ar number +This macro is obsolete. +No replacement markup is needed. +.Pp +It was used to show numerical function return values in an italic font. +.Tg Ft +.It Ic \&Ft Ar functype +A function type. +.Pp +In the +.Em SYNOPSIS +section, a new output line is started after this macro. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Ft int +.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact +\&.Ft functype +\&.Fn funcname +.Ed +.Pp +See also +.Sx MANUAL STRUCTURE , +.Ic \&Fn , +and +.Ic \&Fo . +.Tg Fx +.It Ic \&Fx Op Ar version +Format the +.Fx +version provided as an argument, or a default value +if no argument is provided. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Fx 7.1 +.Dl \&.Fx +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&At , +.Ic \&Bsx , +.Ic \&Bx , +.Ic \&Dx , +.Ic \&Nx , +and +.Ic \&Ox . +.It Ic \&Hf Ar filename +This macro is not implemented in +.Xr mandoc 1 . +It was used to include the contents of a (header) file literally. +.Tg Ic +.It Ic \&Ic Ar keyword ... +Internal or interactive command, or configuration instruction +in a configuration file. +See also +.Ic \&Cm . +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Ic :wq +.Dl \&.Ic hash +.Dl \&.Ic alias +.Pp +Note that using +.Ic \&Ql , +.Ic \&Dl , +or +.Ic \&Bd Fl literal +is preferred for displaying code samples; the +.Ic \&Ic +macro is used when referring to an individual command name. +.Tg In +.It Ic \&In Ar filename +The name of an include file. +This macro is most often used in section 2, 3, and 9 manual pages. +.Pp +When invoked as the first macro on an input line in the +.Em SYNOPSIS +section, the argument is displayed in angle brackets +and preceded by +.Qq #include , +and a blank line is inserted in front if there is a preceding +function declaration. +In other sections, it only encloses its argument in angle brackets +and causes no line break. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.In sys/types.h +.Pp +See also +.Sx MANUAL STRUCTURE . +.Tg It +.It Ic \&It Op Ar head +A list item. +The syntax of this macro depends on the list type. +.Pp +Lists +of type +.Fl hang , +.Fl ohang , +.Fl inset , +and +.Fl diag +have the following syntax: +.Pp +.D1 Pf \. Ic \&It Ar args +.Pp +Lists of type +.Fl bullet , +.Fl dash , +.Fl enum , +.Fl hyphen +and +.Fl item +have the following syntax: +.Pp +.D1 Pf \. Ic \&It +.Pp +with subsequent lines interpreted within the scope of the +.Ic \&It +until either a closing +.Ic \&El +or another +.Ic \&It . +.Pp +The +.Fl tag +list has the following syntax: +.Pp +.D1 Pf \. Ic \&It Op Cm args +.Pp +Subsequent lines are interpreted as with +.Fl bullet +and family. +The line arguments correspond to the list's left-hand side; body +arguments correspond to the list's contents. +.Pp +The +.Fl column +list is the most complicated. +Its syntax is as follows: +.Pp +.D1 Pf \. Ic \&It Ar cell Op Ic \&Ta Ar cell ... +.D1 Pf \. Ic \&It Ar cell Op Ar cell ... +.Pp +The arguments consist of one or more lines of text and macros +representing a complete table line. +Cells within the line are delimited by the special +.Ic \&Ta +block macro or by literal tab characters. +.Pp +Using literal tabs is strongly discouraged because they are very +hard to use correctly and +.Nm +code using them is very hard to read. +In particular, a blank character is syntactically significant +before and after the literal tab character. +If a word precedes or follows the tab without an intervening blank, +that word is never interpreted as a macro call, but always output +literally. +.Pp +The tab cell delimiter may only be used within the +.Ic \&It +line itself; on following lines, only the +.Ic \&Ta +macro can be used to delimit cells, and portability requires that +.Ic \&Ta +is called by other macros: some parsers do not recognize it when +it appears as the first macro on a line. +.Pp +Note that quoted strings may span tab-delimited cells on an +.Ic \&It +line. +For example, +.Pp +.Dl .It \(dqcol1 ,\& col2 ,\(dq \&; +.Pp +will preserve the whitespace before both commas, +but not the whitespace before the semicolon. +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Bl . +.Tg Lb +.It Ic \&Lb Cm lib Ns Ar name +Specify a library. +.Pp +The +.Ar name +parameter may be a system library, such as +.Cm z +or +.Cm pam , +in which case a small library description is printed next to the linker +invocation; or a custom library, in which case the library name is +printed in quotes. +This is most commonly used in the +.Em SYNOPSIS +section as described in +.Sx MANUAL STRUCTURE . +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Lb libz +.Dl \&.Lb libmandoc +.Tg Li +.It Ic \&Li Ar word ... +Request a typewriter (literal) font. +Deprecated because on terminal output devices, this is usually +indistinguishable from normal text. +For literal displays, use +.Ic \&Ql Pq in-line , +.Ic \&Dl Pq single line , +or +.Ic \&Bd Fl literal Pq multi-line +instead. +.Tg Lk +.It Ic \&Lk Ar uri Op Ar display_name +Format a hyperlink. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Lk https://bsd.lv \(dqThe BSD.lv Project\(dq +.Dl \&.Lk https://bsd.lv +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Mt . +.It Ic \&Lp +Deprecated synonym for +.Ic \&Pp . +.Tg Ms +.It Ic \&Ms Ar name +Display a mathematical symbol. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Ms sigma +.Dl \&.Ms aleph +.Tg Mt +.It Ic \&Mt Ar localpart Ns @ Ns Ar domain +Format a +.Dq mailto: +hyperlink. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Mt discuss@manpages.bsd.lv +.Dl \&.An Kristaps Dzonsons \&Aq \&Mt kristaps@bsd.lv +.Tg Nd +.It Ic \&Nd Ar line +A one line description of the manual's content. +This is the mandatory last macro of the +.Em NAME +section and not appropriate for other sections. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl Pf . Ic \&Nd mdoc language reference +.Dl Pf . Ic \&Nd format and display UNIX manuals +.Pp +The +.Ic \&Nd +macro technically accepts child macros and terminates with a subsequent +.Ic \&Sh +invocation. +Do not assume this behaviour: some +.Xr whatis 1 +database generators are not smart enough to parse more than the line +arguments and will display macros verbatim. +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Nm . +.Tg Nm +.It Ic \&Nm Op Ar name +The name of the manual page, or \(em in particular in section 1, 6, +and 8 pages \(em of an additional command or feature documented in +the manual page. +When first invoked, the +.Ic \&Nm +macro expects a single argument, the name of the manual page. +Usually, the first invocation happens in the +.Em NAME +section of the page. +The specified name will be remembered and used whenever the macro is +called again without arguments later in the page. +The +.Ic \&Nm +macro uses +.Sx Block full-implicit +semantics when invoked as the first macro on an input line in the +.Em SYNOPSIS +section; otherwise, it uses ordinary +.Sx In-line +semantics. +.Pp +Examples: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Sh SYNOPSIS +\&.Nm cat +\&.Op Fl benstuv +\&.Op Ar +.Ed +.Pp +In the +.Em SYNOPSIS +of section 2, 3 and 9 manual pages, use the +.Ic \&Fn +macro rather than +.Ic \&Nm +to mark up the name of the manual page. +.Tg No +.It Ic \&No Ar word ... +Normal text. +Closes the scope of any preceding in-line macro. +When used after physical formatting macros like +.Ic \&Em +or +.Ic \&Sy , +switches back to the standard font face and weight. +Can also be used to embed plain text strings in macro lines +using semantic annotation macros. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl ".Em italic , Sy bold , No and roman" +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Sm off +\&.Cm :C No / Ar pattern No / Ar replacement No / +\&.Sm on +.Ed +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Em , +.Ic \&Ql , +and +.Ic \&Sy . +.Tg Ns +.It Ic \&Ns +Suppress a space between the output of the preceding macro +and the following text or macro. +Following invocation, input is interpreted as normal text +just like after an +.Ic \&No +macro. +.Pp +This has no effect when invoked at the start of a macro line. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl ".Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value" +.Dl ".Cm :M Ns Ar pattern" +.Dl ".Fl o Ns Ar output" +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&No +and +.Ic \&Sm . +.Tg Nx +.It Ic \&Nx Op Ar version +Format the +.Nx +version provided as an argument, or a default value if +no argument is provided. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Nx 5.01 +.Dl \&.Nx +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&At , +.Ic \&Bsx , +.Ic \&Bx , +.Ic \&Dx , +.Ic \&Fx , +and +.Ic \&Ox . +.It Ic \&Oc +Close multi-line +.Ic \&Oo +context. +.It Ic \&Oo Ar block +Multi-line version of +.Ic \&Op . +.Pp +Examples: +.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact +\&.Oo +\&.Op Fl flag Ns Ar value +\&.Oc +.Ed +.Tg Op +.It Ic \&Op Ar line +Optional part of a command line. +Prints the argument(s) in brackets. +This is most often used in the +.Em SYNOPSIS +section of section 1 and 8 manual pages. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Op \&Fl a \&Ar b +.Dl \&.Op \&Ar a | b +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Oo . +.Tg Os +.It Ic \&Os Op Ar footer text +The mandatory third macro of every +.Nm +file. +Usually, do not specify any arguments, +in particular not the operating system name and/or version. +.Pp +If no argument is given, +.Xr mandoc 1 +prints its +.Fl Ios +argument in the page footer, or +.Fa sysname +and +.Fa release +as returned by +.Xr uname 3 +by default. +.Pp +Manual pages that are part of a portable software project can override +the default by giving the project name and version number as arguments, +but leaving it blank is never a bad choice. +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Dd +and +.Ic \&Dt . +.It Ic \&Ot Ar functype +This macro is obsolete. +Use +.Ic \&Ft +instead; with +.Xr mandoc 1 , +both have the same effect. +.Pp +Historical +.Nm +packages described it as +.Dq "old function type (FORTRAN)" . +.Tg Ox +.It Ic \&Ox Op Ar version +Format the +.Ox +version provided as an argument, or a default value +if no argument is provided. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Ox 4.5 +.Dl \&.Ox +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&At , +.Ic \&Bsx , +.Ic \&Bx , +.Ic \&Dx , +.Ic \&Fx , +and +.Ic \&Nx . +.Tg Pa +.It Ic \&Pa Ar name ... +An absolute or relative file system path, or a file or directory name. +If an argument is not provided, the character +.Sq \(ti +is used as a default. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Pa /usr/bin/mandoc +.Dl \&.Pa /usr/share/man/man7/mdoc.7 +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Lk . +.It Ic \&Pc +Close parenthesised context opened by +.Ic \&Po . +.Tg Pf +.It Ic \&Pf Ar prefix macro Op Ar argument ... +Removes the space between its argument and the following macro. +It is equivalent to: +.Pp +.D1 Ic \&No Pf \e& Ar prefix Ic \&Ns Ar macro Op Ar argument ... +.Pp +The +.Ar prefix +argument is not parsed for macro names or delimiters, +but used verbatim as if it were escaped. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl ".Pf $ Ar variable_name" +.Dl ".Pf . Ar macro_name" +.Dl ".Pf 0x Ar hex_digits" +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Ns +and +.Ic \&Sm . +.It Ic \&Po Ar block +Multi-line version of +.Ic \&Pq . +.Tg Pp +.It Ic \&Pp +Break a paragraph. +This will assert vertical space between prior and subsequent macros +and/or text. +.Pp +Paragraph breaks are not needed before or after +.Ic \&Sh +or +.Ic \&Ss +macros or before displays +.Pq Ic \&Bd Ar line +or lists +.Pq Ic \&Bl +unless the +.Fl compact +flag is given. +.Tg Pq +.It Ic \&Pq Ar line +Parenthesised enclosure. +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Po . +.It Ic \&Qc +Close quoted context opened by +.Ic \&Qo . +.Tg Ql +.It Ic \&Ql Ar line +In-line literal display. +This can be used for complete command invocations and for multi-word +code examples when an indented display is not desired. +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Dl +and +.Ic \&Bd +.Fl literal . +.It Ic \&Qo Ar block +Multi-line version of +.Ic \&Qq . +.Tg Qq +.It Ic \&Qq Ar line +Encloses its arguments in +.Qq typewriter +double-quotes. +Consider using +.Ic \&Dq . +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Dq , +.Ic \&Sq , +and +.Ic \&Qo . +.It Ic \&Re +Close an +.Ic \&Rs +block. +Does not have any tail arguments. +.Tg Rs +.It Ic \&Rs +Begin a bibliographic +.Pq Dq reference +block. +Does not have any head arguments. +The block macro may only contain +.Ic \&%A , +.Ic \&%B , +.Ic \&%C , +.Ic \&%D , +.Ic \&%I , +.Ic \&%J , +.Ic \&%N , +.Ic \&%O , +.Ic \&%P , +.Ic \&%Q , +.Ic \&%R , +.Ic \&%T , +.Ic \&%U , +and +.Ic \&%V +child macros (at least one must be specified). +.Pp +Examples: +.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact +\&.Rs +\&.%A J. E. Hopcroft +\&.%A J. D. Ullman +\&.%B Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation +\&.%I Addison-Wesley +\&.%C Reading, Massachusetts +\&.%D 1979 +\&.Re +.Ed +.Pp +If an +.Ic \&Rs +block is used within a SEE ALSO section, a vertical space is asserted +before the rendered output, else the block continues on the current +line. +.Tg Rv +.It Ic \&Rv Fl std Op Ar function ... +Insert a standard sentence regarding a function call's return value of 0 +on success and \-1 on error, with the +.Va errno +libc global variable set on error. +.Pp +If +.Ar function +is not specified, the document's name set by +.Ic \&Nm +is used. +Multiple +.Ar function +arguments are treated as separate functions. +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Ex . +.It Ic \&Sc +Close single-quoted context opened by +.Ic \&So . +.Tg Sh +.It Ic \&Sh Ar TITLE LINE +Begin a new section. +For a list of conventional manual sections, see +.Sx MANUAL STRUCTURE . +These sections should be used unless it's absolutely necessary that +custom sections be used. +.Pp +Section names should be unique so that they may be keyed by +.Ic \&Sx . +Although this macro is parsed, it should not consist of child node or it +may not be linked with +.Ic \&Sx . +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Pp , +.Ic \&Ss , +and +.Ic \&Sx . +.Tg Sm +.It Ic \&Sm Op Cm on | off +Switches the spacing mode for output generated from macros. +.Pp +By default, spacing is +.Cm on . +When switched +.Cm off , +no white space is inserted between macro arguments and between the +output generated from adjacent macros, but text lines +still get normal spacing between words and sentences. +.Pp +When called without an argument, the +.Ic \&Sm +macro toggles the spacing mode. +Using this is not recommended because it makes the code harder to read. +.It Ic \&So Ar block +Multi-line version of +.Ic \&Sq . +.Tg Sq +.It Ic \&Sq Ar line +Encloses its arguments in +.Sq typewriter +single-quotes. +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Dq , +.Ic \&Qq , +and +.Ic \&So . +.Tg Ss +.It Ic \&Ss Ar Title line +Begin a new subsection. +Unlike with +.Ic \&Sh , +there is no convention for the naming of subsections. +Except +.Em DESCRIPTION , +the conventional sections described in +.Sx MANUAL STRUCTURE +rarely have subsections. +.Pp +Sub-section names should be unique so that they may be keyed by +.Ic \&Sx . +Although this macro is parsed, it should not consist of child node or it +may not be linked with +.Ic \&Sx . +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Pp , +.Ic \&Sh , +and +.Ic \&Sx . +.Tg St +.It Ic \&St Fl Ns Ar abbreviation +Replace an abbreviation for a standard with the full form. +The following standards are recognised. +Where multiple lines are given without a blank line in between, +they all refer to the same standard, and using the first form +is recommended. +.Bl -tag -width 1n +.It C language standards +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width "-p1003.1g-2000" -compact +.It \-ansiC +.St -ansiC +.It \-ansiC-89 +.St -ansiC-89 +.It \-isoC +.St -isoC +.It \-isoC-90 +.St -isoC-90 +.br +The original C standard. +.Pp +.It \-isoC-amd1 +.St -isoC-amd1 +.Pp +.It \-isoC-tcor1 +.St -isoC-tcor1 +.Pp +.It \-isoC-tcor2 +.St -isoC-tcor2 +.Pp +.It \-isoC-99 +.St -isoC-99 +.br +The second major version of the C language standard. +.Pp +.It \-isoC-2011 +.St -isoC-2011 +.br +The third major version of the C language standard. .El -.\" SUB-SECTION -.Ss Block partial-implicit -All of these are callable and parsed for further macros. Their scopes -close at the invocation's end-of-line. +.It POSIX.1 before the Single UNIX Specification .Pp -.Bl -column "MacroX" "CallableX" "ParsableX" -compact -offset XXXX -.It Em Macro Ta Em Callable Ta Em Parsable -.It \&.Aq Ta Yes Ta Yes -.It \&.Op Ta Yes Ta Yes -.It \&.Bq Ta Yes Ta Yes -.It \&.Dq Ta Yes Ta Yes -.It \&.Pq Ta Yes Ta Yes -.It \&.Qq Ta Yes Ta Yes -.It \&.Sq Ta Yes Ta Yes -.It \&.Brq Ta Yes Ta Yes -.It \&.D1 Ta \&No Ta \&Yes -.It \&.Dl Ta \&No Ta Yes -.It \&.Ql Ta Yes Ta Yes +.Bl -tag -width "-p1003.1g-2000" -compact +.It \-p1003.1-88 +.St -p1003.1-88 +.It \-p1003.1 +.St -p1003.1 +.br +The original POSIX standard, based on ANSI C. +.Pp +.It \-p1003.1-90 +.St -p1003.1-90 +.It \-iso9945-1-90 +.St -iso9945-1-90 +.br +The first update of POSIX.1. +.Pp +.It \-p1003.1b-93 +.St -p1003.1b-93 +.It \-p1003.1b +.St -p1003.1b +.br +Real-time extensions. +.Pp +.It \-p1003.1c-95 +.St -p1003.1c-95 +.br +POSIX thread interfaces. +.Pp +.It \-p1003.1i-95 +.St -p1003.1i-95 +.br +Technical Corrigendum. +.Pp +.It \-p1003.1-96 +.St -p1003.1-96 +.It \-iso9945-1-96 +.St -iso9945-1-96 +.br +Includes POSIX.1-1990, 1b, 1c, and 1i. .El -.\" PARAGRAPH +.It X/Open Portability Guide version 4 and related standards .Pp +.Bl -tag -width "-p1003.1g-2000" -compact +.It \-xpg3 +.St -xpg3 +.br +An XPG4 precursor, published in 1989. +.Pp +.It \-p1003.2 +.St -p1003.2 +.It \-p1003.2-92 +.St -p1003.2-92 +.It \-iso9945-2-93 +.St -iso9945-2-93 +.br +An XCU4 precursor. +.Pp +.It \-p1003.2a-92 +.St -p1003.2a-92 +.br +Updates to POSIX.2. +.Pp +.It \-xpg4 +.St -xpg4 +.br +Based on POSIX.1 and POSIX.2, published in 1992. +.El +.It Single UNIX Specification version 1 and related standards +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width "-p1003.1g-2000" -compact +.It \-susv1 +.St -susv1 +.It \-xpg4.2 +.St -xpg4.2 +.br +This standard was published in 1994. +It was used as the basis for UNIX 95 certification. +The following two refer to parts of it. +.Pp +.It \-xcurses4.2 +.St -xcurses4.2 +.Pp +.It \-p1003.1g-2000 +.St -p1003.1g-2000 +.br +Networking APIs, including sockets. +.Pp +.It \-svid4 +.St -svid4 , +.br +Published in 1995. +.El +.It Single UNIX Specification version 2 and related standards +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width "-p1003.1g-2000" -compact +.It \-susv2 +.St -susv2 +This Standard was published in 1997 +and is also called X/Open Portability Guide version 5. +It was used as the basis for UNIX 98 certification. +The following refer to parts of it. +.Pp +.It \-xbd5 +.St -xbd5 +.Pp +.It \-xsh5 +.St -xsh5 +.Pp +.It \-xcu5 +.St -xcu5 +.Pp +.It \-xns5 +.St -xns5 +.It \-xns5.2 +.St -xns5.2 +.El +.It Single UNIX Specification version 3 +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width "-p1003.1-2001" -compact +.It \-p1003.1-2001 +.St -p1003.1-2001 +.It \-susv3 +.St -susv3 +.br +This standard is based on C99, SUSv2, POSIX.1-1996, 1d, and 1j. +It is also called X/Open Portability Guide version 6. +It is used as the basis for UNIX 03 certification. +.Pp +.It \-p1003.1-2004 +.St -p1003.1-2004 +.br +The second and last Technical Corrigendum. +.El +.It POSIX issues 7 and 8 +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width "-p1003.1g-2000" -compact +.It \-p1003.1-2008 +.St -p1003.1-2008 +.It \-susv4 +.St -susv4 +.br +This standard is based on C99. +It is also called the +Open Group Standard Base Specifications, Issue 7. +.El +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width "-p1003.1g-2000" -compact +.It \-p1003.1-2024 +.St -p1003.1-2024 +.br +This standard is based on C17. +It is also called the +Open Group Standard Base Specifications, Issue 8. +.El +.It Other standards +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width "-p1003.1g-2000" -compact +.It \-ieee754 +.St -ieee754 +.br +Floating-point arithmetic. +.Pp +.It \-iso8601 +.St -iso8601 +.br +Representation of dates and times, published in 1988. +.Pp +.It \-iso8802-3 +.St -iso8802-3 +.br +Ethernet local area networks. +.Pp +.It \-ieee1275-94 +.St -ieee1275-94 +.El +.El +.Tg Sx +.It Ic \&Sx Ar Title line +Reference a section or subsection in the same manual page. +The referenced section or subsection name must be identical to the +enclosed argument, including whitespace. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Sx MANUAL STRUCTURE +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Sh +and +.Ic \&Ss . +.Tg Sy +.It Ic \&Sy Ar word ... +Request a boldface font. +.Pp +This is most often used to indicate importance or seriousness (not to be +confused with stress emphasis, see +.Ic \&Em ) . +When none of the semantic macros fit, it is also adequate for syntax +elements that have to be given or that appear verbatim. +.Pp +Examples: +.Bd -literal -compact -offset indent +\&.Sy Warning : +If +\&.Sy s +appears in the owner permissions, set-user-ID mode is set. +This utility replaces the former +\&.Sy dumpdir +program. +.Ed +.Pp +See also +.Ic \&Em , +.Ic \&No , +and +.Ic \&Ql . +.Tg Ta +.It Ic \&Ta +Table cell separator in +.Ic \&Bl Fl column +lists; can only be used below +.Ic \&It . +.Tg Tg +.It Ic \&Tg Op Ar term +Announce that the next input line starts a definition of the +.Ar term . +This macro must appear alone on its own input line. +The argument defaults to the first argument of the first macro +on the next line. +The argument may not contain whitespace characters, not even when it is quoted. +This macro is a +.Xr mandoc 1 +extension and is typically ignored by other formatters. +.Pp +When viewing terminal output with +.Xr less 1 , +the interactive +.Ic :t +command can be used to go to the definition of the +.Ar term +as described for the +.Ev MANPAGER +variable in +.Xr man 1 ; +when producing HTML output, a fragment identifier +.Pq Ic id No attribute +is generated, to be used for deep linking to this place of the document. +.Pp +In most cases, adding a +.Ic \&Tg +macro would be redundant because +.Xr mandoc 1 +is able to automatically tag most definitions. +This macro is intended for cases where automatic tagging of a +.Ar term +is unsatisfactory, for example if a definition is not tagged +automatically (false negative) or if places are tagged that do +not define the +.Ar term +(false positives). +When there is at least one +.Ic \&Tg +macro for a +.Ar term , +no other places are automatically marked as definitions of that +.Ar term . +.It Ic \&Tn Ar word ... +Supported only for compatibility, do not use this in new manuals. +Even though the macro name +.Pq Dq tradename +suggests a semantic function, historic usage is inconsistent, mostly +using it as a presentation-level macro to request a small caps font. +.It Ic \&Ud +Supported only for compatibility, do not use this in new manuals. +Prints out +.Dq currently under development. +.It Ic \&Ux +Supported only for compatibility, do not use this in new manuals. +Prints out +.Dq Ux . +.Tg Va +.It Ic \&Va Oo Ar type Oc Ar identifier ... +A variable name. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Va foo +.Dl \&.Va const char *bar ; +.Pp +For function arguments and parameters, use +.Ic \&Fa +instead. +For declarations of global variables in the +.Em SYNOPSIS +section, use +.Ic \&Vt . +.Tg Vt +.It Ic \&Vt Ar type Op Ar identifier +A variable type. +.Pp +This is also used for indicating global variables in the +.Em SYNOPSIS +section, in which case a variable name is also specified. +Note that it accepts +.Sx Block partial-implicit +syntax when invoked as the first macro on an input line in the +.Em SYNOPSIS +section, else it accepts ordinary +.Sx In-line +syntax. +In the former case, this macro starts a new output line, +and a blank line is inserted in front if there is a preceding +function definition or include directive. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Vt unsigned char +.Dl \&.Vt extern const char * const sys_signame[] \&; +.Pp +For parameters in function prototypes, use +.Ic \&Fa +instead, for function return types +.Ic \&Ft , +and for variable names outside the +.Em SYNOPSIS +section +.Ic \&Va , +even when including a type with the name. +See also +.Sx MANUAL STRUCTURE . +.It Ic \&Xc +Close a scope opened by +.Ic \&Xo . +.It Ic \&Xo Ar block +Extend the header of an +.Ic \&It +macro or the body of a partial-implicit block macro +beyond the end of the input line. +This macro originally existed to work around the 9-argument limit +of historic +.Xr roff 7 . +.Tg Xr +.It Ic \&Xr Ar name section +Link to another manual +.Pq Qq cross-reference . +.Pp +Cross reference the +.Ar name +and +.Ar section +number of another man page. +.Pp +Examples: +.Dl \&.Xr mandoc 1 +.Dl \&.Xr mandoc 1 \&; +.Dl \&.Xr mandoc 1 \&Ns s behaviour +.El +.Sh MACRO SYNTAX +The syntax of a macro depends on its classification. +In this section, +.Sq \-arg +refers to macro arguments, which may be followed by zero or more +.Sq parm +parameters; +.Sq \&Yo +opens the scope of a macro; and if specified, +.Sq \&Yc +closes it out. +.Pp The -.Sq \&.Op -may be broken by -.Sq \&.Oc -as in the following example: -.Bd -literal -offset XXXX -\&.Oo -\&.Op Fl a Oc +.Em Callable +column indicates that the macro may also be called by passing its name +as an argument to another macro. +For example, +.Sq \&.Op \&Fl O \&Ar file +produces +.Sq Op Fl O Ar file . +To prevent a macro call and render the macro name literally, +escape it by prepending a zero-width space, +.Sq \e& . +For example, +.Sq \&Op \e&Fl O +produces +.Sq Op \&Fl O . +If a macro is not callable but its name appears as an argument +to another macro, it is interpreted as opaque text. +For example, +.Sq \&.Fl \&Sh +produces +.Sq Fl \&Sh . +.Pp +The +.Em Parsed +column indicates whether the macro may call other macros by receiving +their names as arguments. +If a macro is not parsed but the name of another macro appears +as an argument, it is interpreted as opaque text. +.Pp +The +.Em Scope +column, if applicable, describes closure rules. +.Ss Block full-explicit +Multi-line scope closed by an explicit closing macro. +All macros contains bodies; only +.Ic \&Bf +and +.Pq optionally +.Ic \&Bl +contain a head. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Yo \(lB\-arg \(lBparm...\(rB\(rB \(lBhead...\(rB +\(lBbody...\(rB +\&.Yc .Ed +.Bl -column "MacroX" "CallableX" "ParsedX" "closed by XXX" -offset indent +.It Em Macro Ta Em Callable Ta Em Parsed Ta Em Scope +.It Ic \&Bd Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta closed by Ic \&Ed +.It Ic \&Bf Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta closed by Ic \&Ef +.It Ic \&Bk Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta closed by Ic \&Ek +.It Ic \&Bl Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta closed by Ic \&El +.It Ic \&Ed Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta opened by Ic \&Bd +.It Ic \&Ef Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta opened by Ic \&Bf +.It Ic \&Ek Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta opened by Ic \&Bk +.It Ic \&El Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta opened by Ic \&Bl +.El +.Ss Block full-implicit +Multi-line scope closed by end-of-file or implicitly by another macro. +All macros have bodies; some +.Po +.Ic \&It Fl bullet , +.Fl hyphen , +.Fl dash , +.Fl enum , +.Fl item +.Pc +don't have heads; only one +.Po +.Ic \&It +in +.Ic \&Bl Fl column +.Pc +has multiple heads. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Yo \(lB\-arg \(lBparm...\(rB\(rB \(lBhead... \(lBTa head...\(rB\(rB +\(lBbody...\(rB +.Ed +.Bl -column "MacroX" "CallableX" "ParsedX" "closed by XXXXXXXXXXX" -offset indent +.It Em Macro Ta Em Callable Ta Em Parsed Ta Em Scope +.It Ic \&It Ta \&No Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&It , Ic \&El +.It Ic \&Nd Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta closed by Ic \&Sh +.It Ic \&Nm Ta \&No Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&Nm , Ic \&Sh , Ic \&Ss +.It Ic \&Sh Ta \&No Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&Sh +.It Ic \&Ss Ta \&No Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&Sh , Ic \&Ss +.El .Pp -In the above example, the scope of -.Sq \&.Op -is technically broken by -.Sq \&.Oc , -however, due to the overwhelming existence of this sequence, it's -allowed. -.\" SUB-SECTION +Note that the +.Ic \&Nm +macro is a +.Sx Block full-implicit +macro only when invoked as the first macro +in a +.Em SYNOPSIS +section line, else it is +.Sx In-line . .Ss Block partial-explicit -Each of these contains at least a body and, in limited circumstances, a -head -.Pq So \&.Fo Sc , So \&.Eo Sc -and/or tail -.Pq So \&.Ec Sc . +Like block full-explicit, but also with single-line scope. +Each has at least a body and, in limited circumstances, a head +.Po +.Ic \&Fo , +.Ic \&Eo +.Pc +and/or tail +.Pq Ic \&Ec . +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Yo \(lB\-arg \(lBparm...\(rB\(rB \(lBhead...\(rB +\(lBbody...\(rB +\&.Yc \(lBtail...\(rB + +\&.Yo \(lB\-arg \(lBparm...\(rB\(rB \(lBhead...\(rB \ +\(lBbody...\(rB \&Yc \(lBtail...\(rB +.Ed +.Bl -column "MacroX" "CallableX" "ParsedX" "closed by XXXX" -offset indent +.It Em Macro Ta Em Callable Ta Em Parsed Ta Em Scope +.It Ic \&Ac Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by Ic \&Ao +.It Ic \&Ao Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&Ac +.It Ic \&Bc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&Bo +.It Ic \&Bo Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by Ic \&Bc +.It Ic \&Brc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by Ic \&Bro +.It Ic \&Bro Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&Brc +.It Ic \&Dc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by Ic \&Do +.It Ic \&Do Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&Dc +.It Ic \&Ec Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by Ic \&Eo +.It Ic \&Eo Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&Ec +.It Ic \&Fc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by Ic \&Fo +.It Ic \&Fo Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta closed by Ic \&Fc +.It Ic \&Oc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&Oo +.It Ic \&Oo Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by Ic \&Oc +.It Ic \&Pc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&Po +.It Ic \&Po Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by Ic \&Pc +.It Ic \&Qc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by Ic \&Oo +.It Ic \&Qo Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&Oc +.It Ic \&Re Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta opened by Ic \&Rs +.It Ic \&Rs Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta closed by Ic \&Re +.It Ic \&Sc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by Ic \&So +.It Ic \&So Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&Sc +.It Ic \&Xc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by Ic \&Xo +.It Ic \&Xo Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&Xc +.El +.Ss Block partial-implicit +Like block full-implicit, but with single-line scope closed by the +end of the line. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Yo \(lB\-arg \(lBval...\(rB\(rB \(lBbody...\(rB \(lBres...\(rB +.Ed +.Bl -column "MacroX" "CallableX" "ParsedX" -offset indent +.It Em Macro Ta Em Callable Ta Em Parsed +.It Ic \&Aq Ta Yes Ta Yes +.It Ic \&Bq Ta Yes Ta Yes +.It Ic \&Brq Ta Yes Ta Yes +.It Ic \&D1 Ta \&No Ta \&Yes +.It Ic \&Dl Ta \&No Ta Yes +.It Ic \&Dq Ta Yes Ta Yes +.It Ic \&En Ta Yes Ta Yes +.It Ic \&Op Ta Yes Ta Yes +.It Ic \&Pq Ta Yes Ta Yes +.It Ic \&Ql Ta Yes Ta Yes +.It Ic \&Qq Ta Yes Ta Yes +.It Ic \&Sq Ta Yes Ta Yes +.It Ic \&Vt Ta Yes Ta Yes +.El .Pp -.Bl -column "MacroX" "CallableX" "ParsableX" "closed by XXXX" -compact -offset XXXX -.It Em Macro Ta Em Callable Ta Em Parsable Ta Em Scope -.It \&.Ao Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by \&.Ac -.It \&.Ac Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by \&.Ao -.It \&.Bc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by \&.Bo -.It \&.Bo Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by \&.Bc -.It \&.Pc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by \&.Po -.It \&.Po Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by \&.Pc -.It \&.Do Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by \&.Dc -.It \&.Dc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by \&.Do -.It \&.Xo Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by \&.Xc -.It \&.Xc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by \&.Xo -.It \&.Bro Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by \&.Brc -.It \&.Brc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by \&.Bro -.It \&.Oc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by \&.Oo -.It \&.Oo Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by \&.Oc -.It \&.So Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by \&.Sc -.It \&.Sc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by \&.So -.It \&.Fc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by \&.Fo -.It \&.Fo Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta closed by \&.Fc -.It \&.Ec Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by \&.Eo -.It \&.Eo Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by \&.Ec -.It \&.Qc Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta opened by \&.Oo -.It \&.Qo Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by \&.Oc -.It \&.Re Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta opened by \&.Rs -.It \&.Rs Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta closed by \&.Re +Note that the +.Ic \&Vt +macro is a +.Sx Block partial-implicit +only when invoked as the first macro +in a +.Em SYNOPSIS +section line, else it is +.Sx In-line . +.Ss Special block macro +The +.Ic \&Ta +macro can only be used below +.Ic \&It +in +.Ic \&Bl Fl column +lists. +It delimits blocks representing table cells; +these blocks have bodies, but no heads. +.Bl -column "MacroX" "CallableX" "ParsedX" "closed by XXXX" -offset indent +.It Em Macro Ta Em Callable Ta Em Parsed Ta Em Scope +.It Ic \&Ta Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta closed by Ic \&Ta , Ic \&It .El -.\" SUB-SECTION -.Ss In-line -In-line macros have only text children. If a number (or inequality) of -arguments is -.Pq n , +.Ss In-line +Closed by the end of the line, fixed argument lengths, +and/or subsequent macros. +In-line macros have only text children. +If a number (or inequality) of arguments is +.Pq n , then the macro accepts an arbitrary number of arguments. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.Yo \(lB\-arg \(lBval...\(rB\(rB \(lBargs...\(rB \(lBres...\(rB + +\&.Yo \(lB\-arg \(lBval...\(rB\(rB \(lBargs...\(rB Yc... + +\&.Yo \(lB\-arg \(lBval...\(rB\(rB arg0 arg1 argN +.Ed +.Bl -column "MacroX" "CallableX" "ParsedX" "Arguments" -offset indent +.It Em Macro Ta Em Callable Ta Em Parsed Ta Em Arguments +.It Ic \&%A Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&%B Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&%C Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&%D Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&%I Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&%J Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&%N Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&%O Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&%P Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&%Q Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&%R Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&%T Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&%U Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&%V Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Ad Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&An Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Ap Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta 0 +.It Ic \&Ar Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n +.It Ic \&At Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta 1 +.It Ic \&Bsx Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n +.It Ic \&Bt Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0 +.It Ic \&Bx Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n +.It Ic \&Cd Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Cm Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Db Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 1 +.It Ic \&Dd Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n +.It Ic \&Dt Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n +.It Ic \&Dv Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Dx Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n +.It Ic \&Em Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Er Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Es Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta 2 +.It Ic \&Ev Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Ex Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n +.It Ic \&Fa Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Fd Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Fl Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n +.It Ic \&Fn Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Fr Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Ft Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Fx Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n +.It Ic \&Hf Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n +.It Ic \&Ic Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&In Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 1 +.It Ic \&Lb Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 1 +.It Ic \&Li Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Lk Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Lp Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0 +.It Ic \&Ms Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Mt Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Nm Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n +.It Ic \&No Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Ns Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta 0 +.It Ic \&Nx Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n +.It Ic \&Os Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n +.It Ic \&Ot Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Ox Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n +.It Ic \&Pa Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n +.It Ic \&Pf Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta 1 +.It Ic \&Pp Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0 +.It Ic \&Rv Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n +.It Ic \&Sm Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta <2 +.It Ic \&St Ta \&No Ta Yes Ta 1 +.It Ic \&Sx Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Sy Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Tg Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta <2 +.It Ic \&Tn Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Ud Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0 +.It Ic \&Ux Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n +.It Ic \&Va Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n +.It Ic \&Vt Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 +.It Ic \&Xr Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta 2 +.El +.Ss Delimiters +When a macro argument consists of one single input character +considered as a delimiter, the argument gets special handling. +This does not apply when delimiters appear in arguments containing +more than one character. +Consequently, to prevent special handling and just handle it +like any other argument, a delimiter can be escaped by prepending +a zero-width space +.Pq Sq \e& . +In text lines, delimiters never need escaping, but may be used +as normal punctuation. .Pp -.Bl -column "MacroX" "CallableX" "ParsableX" "Arguments" -compact -offset XXXX -.It Em Macro Ta Em Callable Ta Em Parsable Ta Em Arguments -.It \&.Dd Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.Dt Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n -.It \&.Os Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n -.It \&.Pp Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0 -.It \&.Ad Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.An Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Ar Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Cd Ta Yes Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.Cm Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Dv Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Er Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 -.It \&.Ev Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Ex Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0 -.It \&.Fa Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Fd Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.Fl Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Fn Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 -.It \&.Ft Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Ic Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 -.It \&.In Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n -.It \&.Li Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Nd Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n -.It \&.Nm Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Ot Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n -.It \&.Pa Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Rv Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0 -.It \&.St Ta \&No Ta Yes Ta 1 -.It \&.Va Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Vt Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 -.It \&.Xr Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0, <3 -.It \&.%A Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.%B Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.%C Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.%D Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.%I Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.%J Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.%N Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.%O Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.%P Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.%R Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.%T Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.%V Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta >0 -.It \&.At Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta 1 -.It \&.Bsx Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Bx Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Db Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 1 -.It \&.Em Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 -.It \&.Fx Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Ms Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 -.It \&.No Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta 0 -.It \&.Ns Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta 0 -.It \&.Nx Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Ox Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Pf Ta \&No Ta Yes Ta 1 -.It \&.Sm Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 1 -.It \&.Sx Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 -.It \&.Sy Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 -.It \&.Tn Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 -.It \&.Ux Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Dx Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Bt Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0 -.It \&.Hf Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n -.It \&.Fr Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta n -.It \&.Ud Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0 -.It \&.Lb Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 1 -.It \&.Ap Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta 0 -.It \&.Lp Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0 -.It \&.Lk Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta n -.It \&.Mt Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta >0 -.It \&.Es Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0 -.It \&.En Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta 0 +For many macros, when the leading arguments are opening delimiters, +these delimiters are put before the macro scope, +and when the trailing arguments are closing delimiters, +these delimiters are put after the macro scope. +Spacing is suppressed after opening delimiters +and before closing delimiters. +For example, +.Pp +.D1 Pf \. \&Aq "( [ word ] ) ." +.Pp +renders as: +.Pp +.D1 Aq ( [ word ] ) . +.Pp +Opening delimiters are: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It \&( +left parenthesis +.It \&[ +left bracket .El .Pp -The -.Sq \&.Ot , -.Sq \&.Fr , -.Sq \&.Es -and -.Sq \&.En , -macros are obsolete. -.\" SECTION +Closing delimiters are: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It \&. +period +.It \&, +comma +.It \&: +colon +.It \&; +semicolon +.It \&) +right parenthesis +.It \&] +right bracket +.It \&? +question mark +.It \&! +exclamation mark +.El +.Pp +Note that even a period preceded by a backslash +.Pq Sq \e.\& +gets this special handling; use +.Sq \e&.\& +to prevent that. +.Pp +Many in-line macros interrupt their scope when they encounter +delimiters, and resume their scope when more arguments follow that +are not delimiters. +For example, +.Pp +.D1 Pf \. \&Fl "a ( b | c \e*(Ba d ) e" +.Pp +renders as: +.Pp +.D1 Fl a ( b | c \*(Ba d ) e +.Pp +This applies to both opening and closing delimiters, +and also to the middle delimiter, which does not suppress spacing: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It \&| +vertical bar +.El +.Pp +As a special case, the predefined string \e*(Ba is handled and rendered +in the same way as a plain +.Sq \&| +character. +Using this predefined string is not recommended in new manuals. +.Pp +Appending a zero-width space +.Pq Sq \e& +to the end of an input line is also useful to prevent the interpretation +of a trailing period, exclamation or question mark as the end of a +sentence, for example when an abbreviation happens to occur +at the end of a text or macro input line. +.Ss Font handling +In +.Nm +documents, usage of semantic markup is recommended in order to have +proper fonts automatically selected; only when no fitting semantic markup +is available, consider falling back to +.Sx Physical markup +macros. +Whenever any +.Nm +macro switches the +.Xr roff 7 +font mode, it will automatically restore the previous font when exiting +its scope. +Manually switching the font using the +.Xr roff 7 +.Ql \ef +font escape sequences is never required. .Sh COMPATIBILITY -This section documents compatibility with other roff implementations, at -this time limited to -.Xr groff 1 . -The term -.Qq historic groff -refers to those versions before the -.Pa doc.tmac -file re-write -.Pq somewhere between 1.15 and 1.19 . +This section provides an incomplete list of compatibility issues +between mandoc and GNU troff +.Pq Qq groff . .Pp +The following problematic behaviour is found in groff: +.Pp .Bl -dash -compact -.\" LIST-ITEM .It -Some character sequences in groff are not handled depending on escape -style, e.g., -.Sq \e(ba -and -.Sq \e*(Ba -may not be interchanged. This is no longer the case: all character -sequences resolve to the same symbol, regardless the escape style. -.\" LIST-ITEM +.Ic \&Pa +does not format its arguments when used in the FILES section under +certain list types. .It -Blocks of whitespace are stripped from both macro and free-form text -lines (except when in literal mode), while groff would retain whitespace -in free-form text lines. -.\" LIST-ITEM +.Ic \&Ta +can only be called by other macros, but not at the beginning of a line. .It -Historic groff has many un-callable macros. Most of these (excluding -some block-level macros) are now callable, conforming to the -non-historic groff version. -.\" LIST-ITEM +.Sq \ef +.Pq font face +and +.Sq \eF +.Pq font family face +.Sx Text Decoration +escapes behave irregularly when specified within line-macro scopes. .It -The vertical bar -.Sq \(ba -made historic groff -.Qq go orbital -but is a proper delimiter in this implementation. -.\" LIST-ITEM +Negative scaling units return to prior lines. +Instead, mandoc truncates them to zero. +.El +.Pp +The following features are unimplemented in mandoc: +.Pp +.Bl -dash -compact .It -.Sq \&.It \-nested -is assumed for all lists (it wasn't in historic groff): any list may be -nested and -.Sq \-enum -lists will restart the sequence only for the sub-list. -.\" LIST-ITEM +.Ic \&Bd Fl file Ar file +is unsupported for security reasons. .It -.Sq \&.It \-column -syntax where column widths may be preceded by other arguments (instead -of proceeded) is not supported. -.\" LIST-ITEM +.Ic \&Bd +.Fl filled +does not adjust the right margin, but is an alias for +.Ic \&Bd +.Fl ragged . .It -The -.Sq \&.At -macro only accepts a single parameter. -.\" LIST-ITEM +.Ic \&Bd +.Fl literal +does not use a literal font, but is an alias for +.Ic \&Bd +.Fl unfilled . .It -Some manuals use -.Sq \&.Li -incorrectly by following it with a reserved character and expecting the -delimiter to render. This is not supported. -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It -If an special-character control character is escaped -.Sq \e\e , -it will obviously not render the subsequent sequence. Even newer -versions of groff seem to dither on this. +.Ic \&Bd +.Fl offset Cm center +and +.Fl offset Cm right +don't work. +Groff does not implement centered and flush-right rendering either, +but produces large indentations. .El -.\" SECTION .Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr man 1 , .Xr mandoc 1 , -.Xr mandoc_char 7 -.\" SECTION -.Sh AUTHORS +.Xr eqn 7 , +.Xr man 7 , +.Xr mandoc_char 7 , +.Xr roff 7 , +.Xr tbl 7 +.Pp +The web page +.Lk https://mandoc.bsd.lv/mdoc/ "extended documentation for the mdoc language" +provides a few tutorial-style pages for beginners, an extensive style +guide for advanced authors, and an alphabetic index helping to choose +the best macros for various kinds of content. +.Pp +The manual page +.Lk https://man.voidlinux.org/groff_mdoc "groff_mdoc(7)" +contained in the +.Dq groff +package documents exactly the same language in a somewhat different style. +.Sh HISTORY The .Nm -utility was written by -.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@kth.se . -.\" SECTION -.Sh CAVEATS -There are many ambiguous parts of mdoc. -.Pp -.Bl -dash -compact -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It -.Sq \&.Fa -should be -.Sq \&.Va -as function arguments are variables. -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It -.Sq \&.Ft -should be -.Sq \&.Vt -as function return types are still types. Furthermore, the -.Sq \&.Ft -should be removed and -.Sq \&.Fo , -which ostensibly follows it, should follow the same convention as -.Sq \&.Va . -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It -.Sq \&.Va -should formalise that only one or two arguments are acceptable: a -variable name and optional, preceding type. -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It -.Sq \&.Fd -is ambiguous. It's commonly used to indicate an include file in the -synopsis section. -.Sq \&.In -should be used, instead. -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It -Only the -.Sq \-literal -argument to -.Sq \&.Bd -makes sense. The remaining ones should be removed. -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It -The -.Sq \&.Xo -and -.Sq \&.Xc -macros should be deprecated. -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It +language first appeared as a troff macro package in +.Bx 4.4 . +It was later significantly updated by Werner Lemberg and Ruslan Ermilov +in groff-1.17. +The standalone implementation that is part of the +.Xr mandoc 1 +utility written by Kristaps Dzonsons appeared in +.Ox 4.6 . +.Sh AUTHORS The -.Sq \&.Dt -macro lacks clarity. It should be absolutely clear which title will -render when formatting the manual page. -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It -A -.Sq \&.Lx -should be provided for Linux (\(`a la -.Sq \&.Ox , -.Sq \&.Nx -etc.). -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It -There's no way to refer to references in -.Sq \&.Rs/.Re -blocks. -.\" LIST-ITEM -.It -The \-split and \-nosplit arguments to -.Sq \&.An -are inane. -.El +.Nm +reference was written by +.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .