=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc.1,v retrieving revision 1.148 retrieving revision 1.159 diff -u -p -r1.148 -r1.159 --- mandoc/mandoc.1 2015/02/06 08:28:35 1.148 +++ mandoc/mandoc.1 2015/04/03 08:46:17 1.159 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.148 2015/02/06 08:28:35 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.159 2015/04/03 08:46:17 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014, 2015 Ingo Schwarze @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: February 6 2015 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: April 3 2015 $ .Dt MANDOC 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -23,15 +23,13 @@ .Nd format and display UNIX manuals .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm mandoc -.Op Fl acfhklV -.Sm off -.Op Fl I Cm os Li = Ar name -.Sm on -.Op Fl K Ns Ar encoding +.Op Fl acfhkl +.Op Fl I Cm os Ns = Ns Ar name +.Op Fl K Ar encoding .Op Fl m Ns Ar format -.Op Fl O Ns Ar option -.Op Fl T Ns Ar output -.Op Fl W Ns Ar level +.Op Fl O Ar option +.Op Fl T Ar output +.Op Fl W Ar level .Op Ar .Sh DESCRIPTION The @@ -49,7 +47,7 @@ or text from stdin, implying .Fl m Ns Cm andoc , and produces -.Fl T Ns Cm locale +.Fl T Cm locale output. .Pp The options are as follows: @@ -77,9 +75,7 @@ This overrides any earlier and .Fl l options. -.Sm off -.It Fl I Cm os Li = Ar name -.Sm on +.It Fl I Cm os Ns = Ns Ar name Override the default operating system .Ar name for the @@ -93,7 +89,7 @@ macro. Display only the SYNOPSIS lines. Implies .Fl c . -.It Fl K Ns Ar encoding +.It Fl K Ar encoding Specify the input encoding. The supported .Ar encoding @@ -141,18 +137,16 @@ See for available formats. Defaults to .Fl m Ns Cm andoc . -.It Fl O Ns Ar option +.It Fl O Ar option Comma-separated output options. -.It Fl T Ns Ar output +.It Fl T Ar output Output format. See .Sx Output Formats for available formats. Defaults to -.Fl T Ns Cm locale . -.It Fl V -Print version and exit. -.It Fl W Ns Ar level +.Fl T Cm locale . +.It Fl W Ar level Specify the minimum message .Ar level to be reported on the standard error output and to affect the exit status. @@ -176,7 +170,7 @@ and for details. .Pp The special option -.Fl W Ns Cm stop +.Fl W Cm stop tells .Nm to exit after parsing a file that causes warnings or errors of at least @@ -187,7 +181,7 @@ If both a and .Cm stop are requested, they can be joined with a comma, for example -.Fl W Ns Cm error , Ns Cm stop . +.Fl W Cm error , Ns Cm stop . .It Ar file Read input from zero or more files. If unspecified, reads from stdin. @@ -256,54 +250,54 @@ The utility accepts the following .Fl T arguments, which correspond to output modes: -.Bl -tag -width "-Tlocale" -.It Fl T Ns Cm ascii +.Bl -tag -width "-T locale" +.It Fl T Cm ascii Produce 7-bit ASCII output. See .Sx ASCII Output . -.It Fl T Ns Cm html +.It Fl T Cm html Produce HTML5, CSS1, and MathML output. See .Sx HTML Output . -.It Fl T Ns Cm lint +.It Fl T Cm lint Parse only: produce no output. Implies -.Fl W Ns Cm warning . -.It Fl T Ns Cm locale +.Fl W Cm warning . +.It Fl T Cm locale Encode output using the current locale. This is the default. See .Sx Locale Output . -.It Fl T Ns Cm man +.It Fl T Cm man Produce .Xr man 7 format output. See .Sx Man Output . -.It Fl T Ns Cm pdf +.It Fl T Cm pdf Produce PDF output. See .Sx PDF Output . -.It Fl T Ns Cm ps +.It Fl T Cm ps Produce PostScript output. See .Sx PostScript Output . -.It Fl T Ns Cm tree +.It Fl T Cm tree Produce an indented parse tree. -.It Fl T Ns Cm utf8 +.It Fl T Cm utf8 Encode output in the UTF\-8 multi-byte format. See .Sx UTF\-8 Output . -.It Fl T Ns Cm xhtml +.It Fl T Cm xhtml This is a synonym for -.Fl T Ns Cm html . +.Fl T Cm html . .El .Pp If multiple input files are specified, these will be processed by the corresponding filter in-order. .Ss ASCII Output Output produced by -.Fl T Ns Cm ascii +.Fl T Cm ascii is rendered in standard 7-bit ASCII documented in .Xr ascii 7 . .Pp @@ -345,7 +339,7 @@ which will normalise to \(>=58. .El .Ss HTML Output Output produced by -.Fl T Ns Cm html +.Fl T Cm html conforms to HTML5 using optional self-closing tags. Default styles use only CSS1. Equations rendered from @@ -356,8 +350,8 @@ The .Pa example.style.css file documents style-sheet classes available for customising output. If a style-sheet is not specified with -.Fl O Ns Ar style , -.Fl T Ns Cm html +.Fl O Cm style , +.Fl T Cm html defaults to simple output (via an embedded style-sheet) readable in any graphical or text-based web browser. @@ -413,13 +407,13 @@ relative URI. .El .Ss Locale Output Locale-depending output encoding is triggered with -.Fl T Ns Cm locale . +.Fl T Cm locale . This is the default. .Pp This option is not available on all systems: systems without locale support, or those whose internal representation is not natively UCS-4, will fall back to -.Fl T Ns Cm ascii . +.Fl T Cm ascii . See .Sx ASCII Output for font style specification and available command-line arguments. @@ -449,7 +443,7 @@ level controls which are displayed before copying the input to the output. .Ss PDF Output PDF-1.1 output may be generated by -.Fl T Ns Cm pdf . +.Fl T Cm pdf . See .Sx PostScript Output for @@ -459,7 +453,7 @@ arguments and defaults. PostScript .Qq Adobe-3.0 Level-2 pages may be generated by -.Fl T Ns Cm ps . +.Fl T Cm ps . Output pages default to letter sized and are rendered in the Times font family, 11-point. Margins are calculated as 1/9 the page length and width. @@ -491,7 +485,7 @@ is used. .El .Ss UTF\-8 Output Use -.Fl T Ns Cm utf8 +.Fl T Cm utf8 to force a UTF\-8 locale. See .Sx Locale Output @@ -508,7 +502,8 @@ Specifies the pagination program to use when .Ev MANPAGER is not defined. If neither PAGER nor MANPAGER is defined, -.Pa /usr/bin/more Fl s +.Xr more 1 +.Fl s will be used. .El .Sh EXIT STATUS @@ -527,21 +522,21 @@ they were lower than the requested .Ar level . .It 2 At least one warning occurred, but no error, and -.Fl W Ns Cm warning +.Fl W Cm warning was specified. .It 3 At least one parsing error occurred, but no unsupported feature was encountered, and -.Fl W Ns Cm error +.Fl W Cm error or -.Fl W Ns Cm warning +.Fl W Cm warning was specified. .It 4 At least one unsupported feature was encountered, and -.Fl W Ns Cm unsupp , -.Fl W Ns Cm error +.Fl W Cm unsupp , +.Fl W Cm error or -.Fl W Ns Cm warning +.Fl W Cm warning was specified. .It 5 Invalid command line arguments were specified. @@ -555,28 +550,28 @@ to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or .El .Pp Note that selecting -.Fl T Ns Cm lint +.Fl T Cm lint output mode implies -.Fl W Ns Cm warning . +.Fl W Cm warning . .Sh EXAMPLES To page manuals to the terminal: .Pp -.Dl $ mandoc \-Wall,stop mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less +.Dl $ mandoc \-W all,stop mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less .Dl $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less .Pp To produce HTML manuals with .Ar style.css as the style-sheet: .Pp -.Dl $ mandoc \-Thtml -Ostyle=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html +.Dl $ mandoc \-T html -O style=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html .Pp To check over a large set of manuals: .Pp -.Dl $ mandoc \-Tlint `find /usr/src -name \e*\e.[1-9]` +.Dl $ mandoc \-T lint \(gafind /usr/src -name \e*\e.[1-9]\(ga .Pp To produce a series of PostScript manuals for A4 paper: .Pp -.Dl $ mandoc \-Tps \-Opaper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps +.Dl $ mandoc \-T ps \-O paper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps .Pp Convert a modern .Xr mdoc 7 @@ -586,7 +581,7 @@ format, for use on systems lacking an .Xr mdoc 7 parser: .Pp -.Dl $ mandoc \-Tman foo.mdoc \*(Gt foo.man +.Dl $ mandoc \-T man foo.mdoc \*(Gt foo.man .Sh DIAGNOSTICS Messages displayed by .Nm @@ -653,7 +648,7 @@ levels except those about non-existent or unreadable i are hidden unless their level, or a lower level, is requested using a .Fl W option or -.Fl T Ns Cm lint +.Fl T Cm lint output mode. .Ss Warnings related to the document prologue .Bl -ohang @@ -729,9 +724,9 @@ macro occurs after some non-prologue macro, but still .Pq mdoc The .Ic \&Dt -macro can only occur before the first non-prologue macro -because traditional formatters write the page header -before parsing the document body. +macro appears after the first non-prologue macro. +Traditional formatters cannot handle this because +they write the page header before parsing the document body. Even though this technical restriction does not apply to .Nm , traditional semantics is preserved. @@ -773,17 +768,27 @@ This may confuse .Xr makewhatis 8 and .Xr apropos 1 . -.It Sy "bad NAME section contents" +.It Sy "NAME section without name" .Pq mdoc -The last node in the NAME section is not an +The NAME section does not contain any +.Ic \&Nm +child macro. +.It Sy "NAME section without description" +.Pq mdoc +The NAME section lacks the mandatory .Ic \&Nd -macro, or any preceding macro is not -.Ic \&Nm , -or the NAME section is completely empty. -This may confuse -.Xr makewhatis 8 +child macro. +.It Sy "description not at the end of NAME" +.Pq mdoc +The NAME section does contain an +.Ic \&Nd +child macro, but other content follows it. +.It Sy "bad NAME section content" +.Pq mdoc +The NAME section contains plain text or macros other than +.Ic \&Nm and -.Xr apropos 1 . +.Ic \&Nd . .It Sy "missing description line, using \(dq\(dq" .Pq mdoc The @@ -809,7 +814,7 @@ In the SEE ALSO section, an macro with a lower section number follows one with a higher number, or two .Ic \&Xr -macros refering to the same section are out of alphabetical order. +macros referring to the same section are out of alphabetical order. .It Sy "unusual Xr punctuation" .Pq mdoc In the SEE ALSO section, punctuation between two @@ -836,7 +841,7 @@ manual for replacements. .Pq mdoc The name of a macro that is not callable appears on a macro line. It is printed verbatim. -If the intention is to call it, move it to its own line; +If the intention is to call it, move it to its own input line; otherwise, escape it by prepending .Sq \e& . .It Sy "skipping paragraph macro" @@ -1080,21 +1085,18 @@ list, an .Ic \&It block is empty. An empty list item is shown. -.It Sy "missing font type" +.It Sy "missing font type, using \efR" .Pq mdoc A .Ic \&Bf macro has no argument. -It switches to the default font, -.Cm \efR . -.It Sy "unknown font type" +It switches to the default font. +.It Sy "unknown font type, using \efR" .Pq mdoc The .Ic \&Bf argument is invalid. -The default font -.Cm \efR -is used instead. +The default font is used instead. .It Sy "nothing follows prefix" .Pq mdoc A @@ -1125,6 +1127,18 @@ The utility assumes .Fl std even when it is not specified, but other implementations may not. +.It Sy "missing option string, using \(dq\(dq" +.Pq man +The +.Ic \&OP +macro is invoked without any argument. +An empty pair of square brackets is shown. +.It Sy "missing resource identifier, using \(dq\(dq" +.Pq man +The +.Ic \&UR +macro is invoked without any argument. +An empty pair of angle brackets is shown. .It Sy "missing eqn box, using \(dq\(dq" .Pq eqn A diacritic mark or a binary operator is found, @@ -1189,6 +1203,15 @@ list has a .Fl width argument. That has no effect. +.It Sy "wrong number of cells" +In a line of a +.Ic \&Bl Fl column +list, the number of tabs or +.Ic \&Ta +macros is less than the number expected from the list header line +or exceeds the expected number by more than one. +Missing cells remain empty, and all cells exceeding the number of +columns are joined into one single cell. .It Sy "unknown AT&T UNIX version" .Pq mdoc An @@ -1240,6 +1263,12 @@ request or a layout modifier has an unknown .Ar font argument. +.It Sy "odd number of characters in request" +.Pq roff +A +.Ic \&tr +request contains an odd number of characters. +The last character is mapped to the blank character. .El .Ss "Warnings related to plain text" .Bl -ohang @@ -1476,7 +1505,7 @@ macros as well as tables require explicit closing by d A block that doesn't support bad nesting ends before all of its children are properly closed. The open child nodes are closed implicitly. -.It Sy "scope open on exit" +.It Sy "appending missing end of block" .Pq mdoc , man , eqn , tbl , roff At the end of the document, an explicit .Xr mdoc 7 @@ -1526,12 +1555,6 @@ When parsing for a request or a user-defined macro nam only the escape sequence is discarded. The characters preceding it are used as the request or macro name, the characters following it are used as the arguments to the request or macro. -.It Sy "argument count wrong" -.Pq mdoc , man , roff -The indicated request or macro has too few or too many arguments. -The syntax tree will contain the wrong number of arguments as given. -Formatting behaviour depends on the specific request or macro in question. -Note that the same message may also occur as a WARNING, see above. .It Sy "NOT IMPLEMENTED: Bd -file" .Pq mdoc For security reasons, the @@ -1645,26 +1668,44 @@ block closing request is invoked with at least one arg All arguments are ignored. .It Sy "skipping excess arguments" .Pq mdoc , man , roff -The +A macro or request is invoked with too many arguments: +.Bl -dash -offset 2n -width 2n -compact +.It +.Ic \&Fo , +.Ic \&PD , +.Ic \&RS , +.Ic \&UR , +.Ic \&ft , +or +.Ic \&sp +with more than one argument +.It .Ic \&An -macro is invoked with another argument after +with another argument after .Fl split or -.Fl nosplit , -.Ic \&Fo -is invoked with more than one argument, +.Fl nosplit +.It +.Ic \&RE +with more than one argument or with a non-integer argument +.It +.Ic \&OP +or a request of the +.Ic \&de +family with more than two arguments +.It +.Ic \&Dt +with more than three arguments +.It +.Ic \&TH +with more than five arguments +.It .Ic \&Bd , .Ic \&Bk , or .Ic \&Bl -are invoked with invalid arguments, the -.Ic \&RE -macro is invoked with more than one argument -or with a non-integer argument, the -.Ic \&sp -request is invoked with more than one argument, or a request of the -.Ic \&de -family is invoked with more than two arguments. +with invalid arguments +.El The excess arguments are ignored. .El .Ss Unsupported features @@ -1723,6 +1764,7 @@ as if they were a text line. .Xr roff 7 , .Xr tbl 7 .Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit The .Nm utility was written by @@ -1731,10 +1773,10 @@ and is maintained by .An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org . .Sh BUGS In -.Fl T Ns Cm html , +.Fl T Cm html , the maximum size of an element attribute is determined by .Dv BUFSIZ , which is usually 1024 bytes. Be aware of this when setting long link formats such as -.Fl O Ns Cm style Ns = Ns Ar really/long/link . +.Fl O Cm style Ns = Ns Ar really/long/link .