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version 1.228, 2018/08/25 16:53:38

version 1.232, 2018/12/15 19:30:26

Line 290 One useful application is for checking that

output formats in the same way as the

.Xr mdoc 7

source it was generated from.

.It Cm tag Ns Op = Ns Ar term

If the formatted manual page is opened in a pager,

go to the definition of the

.Ar term

rather than showing the manual page from the beginning.

If no

.Ar term

is specified, reuse the first command line argument that is not a

.Ar section

number.

This is useful when it is the name of a manual page,

in particular the name of a library function.

.It Cm width Ns = Ns Ar width

The output width is set to

.Ar width

Line 345 Instances of

Line 357 Instances of

are replaced with the include filename.

The default is not to present a

hyperlink.

.It Cm man Ns = Ns Ar fmt

.It Cm man Ns = Ns Ar fmt Ns Op ; Ns Ar fmt

The string

.Ar fmt ,

for example,

Line 361 are replaced with the linked manual's name and section

Line 373 are replaced with the linked manual's name and section

If no section is included, section 1 is assumed.

The default is not to

present a hyperlink.

If two formats are given and a file

.Ar %N.%S

exists in the current directory, the first format is used;

otherwise, the second format is used.

.It Cm style Ns = Ns Ar style.css

The file

.Ar style.css

is used for an external style-sheet.

This must be a valid absolute or

relative URI.

.It Cm toc

If an input file contains at least two non-standard sections,

print a table of contents near the beginning of the output.

.El

.Ss Locale Output

By default,

Line 1657 Start it on a new input line to help formatters produc

Line 1676 Start it on a new input line to help formatters produc

.It Sy "invalid escape sequence"

.Pq roff

An escape sequence has an invalid opening argument delimiter, lacks the

closing argument delimiter, or the argument has too few characters.

closing argument delimiter, the argument is of an invalid form, or it is

a character escape sequence with an invalid name.

If the argument is incomplete,

.Ic \e*

and

Line 1670 and

Line 1690 and

.Ic \ew

to the length of the incomplete argument.

All other invalid escape sequences are ignored.

.It Sy "undefined escape, printing literally"

.Pq roff

In an escape sequence, the first character

right after the leading backslash is invalid.

That character is printed literally,

which is equivalent to ignoring the backslash.

.It Sy "undefined string, using \(dq\(dq"

.Pq roff

If a string is used without being defined before,

Line 2135 implementations but not by

Line 2161 implementations but not by

.Nm

was found in an input file.

It is replaced by a question mark.

.It Sy "unsupported escape sequence"

.Pq roff

An input file contains an escape sequence supported by GNU troff

or Heirloom troff but not by

.Nm ,

and it is likely that this will cause information loss

or considerable misformatting.

.It Sy "unsupported roff request"

.Pq roff

An input file contains a

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