=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc.1,v retrieving revision 1.160 retrieving revision 1.172 diff -u -p -r1.160 -r1.172 --- mandoc/mandoc.1 2015/09/14 15:36:14 1.160 +++ mandoc/mandoc.1 2017/01/28 23:30:08 1.172 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.160 2015/09/14 15:36:14 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.172 2017/01/28 23:30:08 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons -.\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014, 2015 Ingo Schwarze +.\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2017 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 @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 14 2015 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 28 2017 $ .Dt MANDOC 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ This overrides any earlier and .Fl l options. +.It Fl h +Display only the SYNOPSIS lines. +Implies +.Fl c . .It Fl I Cm os Ns = Ns Ar name Override the default operating system .Ar name @@ -85,10 +89,6 @@ and for the .Xr man 7 .Sq \&TH macro. -.It Fl h -Display only the SYNOPSIS lines. -Implies -.Fl c . .It Fl K Ar encoding Specify the input encoding. The supported @@ -284,6 +284,8 @@ See .Sx PostScript Output . .It Fl T Cm tree Produce an indented parse tree. +See +.Sx Syntax tree output . .It Fl T Cm utf8 Encode output in the UTF\-8 multi-byte format. See @@ -347,7 +349,7 @@ Equations rendered from blocks use MathML. .Pp The -.Pa example.style.css +.Pa mandoc.css file documents style-sheet classes available for customising output. If a style-sheet is not specified with .Fl O Cm style , @@ -490,6 +492,59 @@ to force a UTF\-8 locale. See .Sx Locale Output for details and options. +.Ss Syntax tree output +Use +.Fl T Cm tree +to show a human readable representation of the syntax tree. +It is useful for debugging the source code of manual pages. +The exact format is subject to change, so don't write parsers for it. +.Pp +The first paragraph shows meta data found in the +.Xr mdoc 7 +prologue, on the +.Xr man 7 +.Ic \&TH +line, or the fallbacks used. +.Pp +In the tree dump, each output line shows one syntax tree node. +Child nodes are indented with respect to their parent node. +The columns are: +.Pp +.Bl -enum -compact +.It +For macro nodes, the macro name; for text and +.Xr tbl 7 +nodes, the content. +There is a special format for +.Xr eqn 7 +nodes. +.It +Node type (text, elem, block, head, body, body-end, tail, tbl, eqn). +.It +Flags: +.Bl -dash -compact +.It +An opening parenthesis if the node is an opening delimiter. +.It +An asterisk if the node starts a new input line. +.It +The input line number (starting at one). +.It +A colon. +.It +The input column number (starting at one). +.It +A closing parenthesis if the node is a closing delimiter. +.It +A full stop if the node ends a sentence. +.It +NOSRC if the node is not in the input file, +but automatically generated from macros. +.It +NOPRT if the node is not supposed to generate output +for any output format. +.El +.El .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width MANPAGER .It Ev MANPAGER @@ -560,10 +615,10 @@ To page manuals to the terminal: .Dl $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less .Pp To produce HTML manuals with -.Ar style.css +.Pa mandoc.css as the style-sheet: .Pp -.Dl $ mandoc \-T html -O style=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html +.Dl $ mandoc \-T html -O style=mandoc.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html .Pp To check over a large set of manuals: .Pp @@ -768,11 +823,13 @@ This may confuse .Xr makewhatis 8 and .Xr apropos 1 . -.It Sy "NAME section without name" +.It Sy "NAME section without Nm before Nd" .Pq mdoc The NAME section does not contain any .Ic \&Nm -child macro. +child macro before the first +.Ic \&Nd +macro. .It Sy "NAME section without description" .Pq mdoc The NAME section lacks the mandatory @@ -789,6 +846,11 @@ The NAME section contains plain text or macros other t .Ic \&Nm and .Ic \&Nd . +.It Sy "missing comma before name" +.Pq mdoc +The NAME section contains an +.Ic \&Nm +macro that is neither the first one nor preceded by a comma. .It Sy "missing description line, using \(dq\(dq" .Pq mdoc The @@ -1106,6 +1168,13 @@ macro is immediately followed by an .Ic \&Re macro on the next input line. Such an empty block does not produce any output. +.It Sy "missing section argument" +.Pq mdoc +An +.Ic \&Xr +macro lacks its second, section number argument. +The first argument, i.e. the name, is printed, but without subsequent +parentheses. .It Sy "missing -std argument, adding it" .Pq mdoc An @@ -1288,6 +1357,10 @@ it is hard to predict which tab stop position the tab Whitespace at the end of input lines is almost never semantically significant \(em but in the odd case where it might be, it is extremely confusing when reviewing and maintaining documents. +.It Sy "new sentence, new line" +.Pq mdoc +A new sentence starts in the middle of a text line. +Start it on a new input line to help formatters produce correct spacing. .It Sy "bad comment style" .Pq roff Comment lines start with a dot, a backslash, and a double-quote character. @@ -1559,6 +1632,13 @@ By requesting the inclusion of a sensitive file, a mal might otherwise trick a privileged user into inadvertently displaying the file on the screen, revealing the file content to bystanders. The argument is ignored including the file name following it. +.It Sy "skipping display without arguments" +.Pq mdoc +A +.Ic \&Bd +block macro does not have any arguments. +The block is discarded, and the block content is displayed in +whatever mode was active before the block. .It Sy "missing list type, using -item" .Pq mdoc A @@ -1567,8 +1647,8 @@ macro fails to specify the list type. .It Sy "missing manual name, using \(dq\(dq" .Pq mdoc The first call to -.Ic \&Nm -lacks the required argument. +.Ic \&Nm , +or any call in the NAME section, lacks the required argument. .It Sy "uname(3) system call failed, using UNKNOWN" .Pq mdoc The @@ -1764,12 +1844,3 @@ utility was written by .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv and is maintained by .An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org . -.Sh BUGS -In -.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 Cm style Ns = Ns Ar really/long/link .