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version 1.77, 2010/08/20 01:02:07

version 1.83, 2010/12/20 13:57:49

Line 159 utility accepts the following

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

Produce 7-bit ASCII output.

styles.

This is the default.

See

.Sx ASCII Output .

.It Fl T Ns Cm html

Produce strict HTML-4.01 output, with a sane default style.

Produce strict CSS1/HTML-4.01 output.

See

.Sx HTML Output .

.It Fl T Ns Cm lint

Line 183 See

Line 182 See

.It Fl T Ns Cm tree

Produce an indented parse tree.

.It Fl T Ns Cm xhtml

Produce strict XHTML-1.0 output, with a sane default style.

Produce strict CSS1/XHTML-1.0 output.

See

.Sx XHTML Output .

.El

Line 228 Output produced by

Line 227 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

file documents style-sheet classes available for customising output.

cause rendered documents to appear as they do in

If a style-sheet is not specified with

.Fl T Ns Cm ascii .

.Fl O Ns Ar style ,

.Fl T Ns Cm html

defaults to simple output readable in any graphical or text-based web

browser.

.Pp

Special characters are rendered in decimal-encoded UTF-8.

.Pp

Line 376 output mode implies

Line 373 output mode implies

.Sh EXAMPLES

To page manuals to the terminal:

.Pp

.D1 $ mandoc \-Wall,stop mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less

.Dl $ mandoc \-Wall,stop mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less

.D1 $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less

.Dl $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less

.Pp

To produce HTML manuals with

.Ar style.css

as the style-sheet:

.Pp

.D1 $ mandoc \-Thtml -Ostyle=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html

.Dl $ mandoc \-Thtml -Ostyle=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html

.Pp

To check over a large set of manuals:

.Pp

Line 391 To check over a large set of manuals:

Line 388 To check over a large set of manuals:

.Pp

To produce a series of PostScript manuals for A4 paper:

.Pp

.D1 $ mandoc \-Tps \-Opaper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps

.Dl $ mandoc \-Tps \-Opaper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps

.Sh DIAGNOSTICS

Standard error messages reporting parsing errors are prefixed by

.Pp

Line 453 The

Line 450 The

.Nm

utility may also print messages related to invalid command line arguments

or operating system errors, for example when memory is exhausted or

input files cannot be read. Such messages do not carry the prefix

input files cannot be read.

described above.

Such messages do not carry the prefix described above.

.Sh COMPATIBILITY

This section summarises

.Nm

Line 541 The

Line 538 The

utility was written by

.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@bsd.lv .

.Sh CAVEATS

The

.Fl T Ns Cm html

and

.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml

CSS2 styling used for

.Fl m Ns Cm doc

input lists does not render properly in older browsers, such as Internet

Explorer 6 and earlier.

.Pp

.Fl T Ns Cm html

and

Line 573 and

Line 561 and

.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml

and cause them to forget the formatting of the prior next-line scope.

.Pp

The

.Sq i

macro in

.Fl m Ns Cm an

should italicise all subsequent text if a line argument is not provided.

This behaviour is not implemented.

The

.Sq \(aq

control character is an alias for the standard macro control character

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