=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc.1,v retrieving revision 1.64 retrieving revision 1.76 diff -u -p -r1.64 -r1.76 --- mandoc/mandoc.1 2010/06/25 19:02:48 1.64 +++ mandoc/mandoc.1 2010/08/18 08:41:40 1.76 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.64 2010/06/25 19:02:48 kristaps Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.76 2010/08/18 08:41:40 kristaps Exp $ .\" -.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons +.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: June 25 2010 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 18 2010 $ .Dt MANDOC 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -51,9 +51,6 @@ Defaults to .Fl m Ns Cm andoc . .It Fl O Ns Ar option Comma-separated output options. -See -.Sx Output Options -for details. .It Fl T Ns Ar output Output format. See @@ -139,13 +136,45 @@ specified and or .Fl m Ns Cm an is specified, then this format is used exclusively. +.Ss Compiler Options +Default +.Xr mdoc 7 +and +.Xr man 7 +compilation behaviour may be overridden with the +.Fl f +flag. +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl f Ns Cm ign-errors +When parsing multiple files, don't halt when one errors out. +Useful with +.Fl T Ns Cm lint +over a large set of manuals passed on the command line. +.It Fl f Ns Cm ign-escape +Ignore invalid escape sequences. +This is the default, but the option can be used to override an earlier +.Fl f Ns Cm strict . +.It Fl f Ns Cm ign-scope +When rewinding the scope of a block macro, forces the compiler to ignore +scope violations. +This can seriously mangle the resulting tree. +.Pq mdoc only +.It Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-escape +Do not ignore invalid escape sequences. +.It Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-macro +Do not ignore unknown macros at the start of input lines. +.It Fl f Ns Cm strict +Implies +.Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-escape +and +.Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-macro . +.El .Ss Output Formats The .Nm utility accepts the following .Fl T -arguments (see -.Sx OUTPUT ) : +arguments, which correspond to output modes: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl T Ns Cm ascii Produce 7-bit ASCII output, backspace-encoded for bold and underline @@ -163,6 +192,10 @@ Implies .Fl W Ns Cm all and .Fl f Ns Cm strict . +.It Fl T Ns Cm pdf +Produce PDF output. +See +.Sx PDF Output . .It Fl T Ns Cm ps Produce PostScript output. See @@ -177,43 +210,60 @@ See .Pp If multiple input files are specified, these will be processed by the corresponding filter in-order. -.Ss Compiler Options -Default compiler behaviour may be overridden with the -.Fl f -flag. +.Ss ASCII Output +Output produced by +.Fl T Ns Cm ascii , +which is the default, is rendered in standard 7-bit ASCII documented in +.Xr ascii 7 . +.Pp +Font styles are applied by using back-spaced encoding such that an +underlined character +.Sq c +is rendered as +.Sq _ Ns \e[bs] Ns c , +where +.Sq \e[bs] +is the back-space character number 8. +Emboldened characters are rendered as +.Sq c Ns \e[bs] Ns c . +.Pp +The special characters documented in +.Xr mandoc_char 7 +are rendered best-effort in an ASCII equivalent. +.Pp +Output width is limited to 78 visible columns unless literal input lines +exceed this limit. +.Pp +The following +.Fl O +arguments are accepted: .Bl -tag -width Ds -.It Fl f Ns Cm ign-errors -When parsing multiple files, don't halt when one errors out. -Useful with -.Fl T Ns Cm lint -over a large set of manuals passed on the command line. -.It Fl f Ns Cm ign-escape -Ignore invalid escape sequences. -This is the default, but the option can be used to override an earlier -.Fl f Ns Cm strict . -.It Fl f Ns Cm ign-scope -When rewinding the scope of a block macro, forces the compiler to ignore -scope violations. -This can seriously mangle the resulting tree. -.Pq mdoc only -.It Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-escape -Do not ignore invalid escape sequences. -.It Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-macro -Do not ignore unknown macros at the start of input lines. -.It Fl f Ns Cm strict -Implies -.Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-escape -and -.Fl f Ns Cm no-ign-macro . +.It Cm width Ns = Ns Ar width +The output width is set to +.Ar width , +which will normalise to \(>=60. .El -.Ss Output Options +.Ss HTML Output +Output produced by +.Fl T Ns Cm html +conforms to HTML-4.01 strict. +.Pp +Font styles and page structure are applied using CSS2. +By default, no font style is applied to any text, +although CSS2 is hard-coded to format +the basic structure of output. +.Pp The -.Fl T Ns Ar html -and -.Fl T Ns Ar xhtml -modes accept the following +.Pa example.style.css +file documents the range of styles applied to output and, if used, will +cause rendered documents to appear as they do in +.Fl T Ns Cm ascii . +.Pp +Special characters are rendered in decimal-encoded UTF-8. +.Pp +The following .Fl O -arguments: +arguments are accepted: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Cm includes Ns = Ns Ar fmt The string @@ -251,111 +301,48 @@ is used for an external style-sheet. This must be a valid absolute or relative URI. .El +.Ss PostScript Output +PostScript +.Qq Adobe-3.0 +Level-2 pages may be generated by +.Fl T Ns 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. +Line-height is 1.4m. .Pp -The -.Fl T Ns Ar ascii -mode accepts the following +Special characters are rendered as in +.Sx ASCII Output . +.Pp +The following .Fl O -argument: +arguments are accepted: .Bl -tag -width Ds -.It Cm width Ns = Ns Ar width -The output width is set to -.Ar width , -which will normalise to \(>=60. +.It Cm paper Ns = Ns Ar name +The paper size +.Ar name +may be one of +.Ar a3 , +.Ar a4 , +.Ar a5 , +.Ar legal , +or +.Ar letter . +You may also manually specify dimensions as +.Ar NNxNN , +width by height in millimetres. +If an unknown value is encountered, +.Ar letter +is used. .El -.Sh OUTPUT -This section documents output details of -.Nm . -In general, output conforms to the traditional manual style of a header, -a body composed of sections and sub-sections, and a footer. -.Pp -The text style of output characters (non-macro characters, punctuation, -and white-space) is dictated by context. -.Pp -White-space is generally stripped from input. -This can be changed with -character escapes (specified in -.Xr mandoc_char 7 ) -or literal modes (specified in -.Xr mdoc 7 -and -.Xr man 7 ) . -.Pp -If non-macro punctuation is set apart from words, such as in the phrase -.Dq to be \&, or not to be , -it's processed by -.Nm , -regardless of output format, according to the following rules: opening -punctuation -.Po -.Sq \&( , -.Sq \&[ , -and -.Sq \&{ -.Pc -is not followed by a space; closing punctuation -.Po -.Sq \&. , -.Sq \&, , -.Sq \&; , -.Sq \&: , -.Sq \&? , -.Sq \&! , -.Sq \&) , -.Sq \&] -and -.Sq \&} -.Pc -is not preceded by white-space. -.Pp -If the input is -.Xr mdoc 7 , -however, these rules are also applied to macro arguments when appropriate. -.Ss ASCII Output -Output produced by -.Fl T Ns Cm ascii , -which is the default, is rendered in standard 7-bit ASCII documented in -.Xr ascii 7 . -.Pp -Font styles are applied by using back-spaced encoding such that an -underlined character -.Sq c -is rendered as -.Sq _ Ns \e[bs] Ns c , -where -.Sq \e[bs] -is the back-space character number 8. -Emboldened characters are rendered as -.Sq c Ns \e[bs] Ns c . -.Pp -The special characters documented in -.Xr mandoc_char 7 -are rendered best-effort in an ASCII equivalent. -.Pp -Output width is limited to 78 visible columns unless literal input lines -exceed this limit. -.Ss HTML Output -Output produced by -.Fl T Ns Cm html -conforms to HTML-4.01 strict. -.Pp -Font styles and page structure are applied using CSS2. -By default, no font style is applied to any text, -although CSS2 is hard-coded to format -the basic structure of output. -.Pp -The -.Pa example.style.css -file documents the range of styles applied to output and, if used, will -cause rendered documents to appear as they do in -.Fl T Ns Cm ascii . -.Pp -Special characters are rendered in decimal-encoded UTF-8. -.Ss PostScript Output -PostScript Level 2 pages may be generated by -.Fl T Ns Cm ps . -Output pages are US-letter sized (215.9 x 279.4 mm) and rendered in -fixed, 10-point Courier font. +.Ss PDF Output +PDF-1.1 output may be generated by +.Fl T Ns Cm pdf . +See +.Sx PostScript Output +for +.Fl O +arguments and defaults. .Ss XHTML Output Output produced by .Fl T Ns Cm xhtml @@ -380,21 +367,19 @@ as the style-sheet: To check over a large set of manuals: .Pp .Dl $ mandoc \-Tlint \-fign-errors `find /usr/src -name \e*\e.[1-9]` +.Pp +To produce a series of PostScript manuals for A4 paper: +.Pp +.D1 $ mandoc \-Tps \-Opaper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps .Sh COMPATIBILITY This section summarises .Nm -compatibility with -.Xr groff 1 . +compatibility with GNU troff. Each input and output format is separately noted. .Ss ASCII Compatibility .Bl -bullet -compact .It The -.Sq \e~ -special character doesn't produce expected behaviour in -.Fl T Ns Cm ascii . -.It -The .Sq \&Bd \-literal and .Sq \&Bd \-unfilled @@ -404,9 +389,7 @@ in .Fl T Ns Cm ascii are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged. .It -In -.Xr groff 1 , -the +In GNU troff, the .Sq \&Pa .Xr mdoc 7 macro does not underline when scoped under an @@ -432,11 +415,6 @@ has no effect. .It Words aren't hyphenated. .It -In normal mode (not a literal block), blocks of spaces aren't preserved, -so double spaces following sentence closure are reduced to a single space; -.Xr groff 1 -retains spaces. -.It Sentences are unilaterally monospaced. .El .Ss HTML/XHTML Compatibility @@ -498,17 +476,6 @@ 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 . -.Pp -The -.Fl T Ns Cm html -and -.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml -output modes don't render the -.Sq \es -font size escape documented in -.Xr mdoc 7 -and -.Xr man 7 . .Pp Nesting elements within next-line element scopes of .Fl m Ns Cm an ,