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1.143     schwarze   18: .Dd $Mdocdate: February 4 2015 $
1.14      kristaps   19: .Dt MANDOC 1
1.1       kristaps   20: .Os
                     21: .Sh NAME
                     22: .Nm mandoc
1.8       kristaps   23: .Nd format and display UNIX manuals
1.1       kristaps   24: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     25: .Nm mandoc
1.110     schwarze   26: .Op Fl acfhklV
1.101     schwarze   27: .Sm off
                     28: .Op Fl I Cm os Li = Ar name
                     29: .Sm on
1.121     schwarze   30: .Op Fl K Ns Ar encoding
1.8       kristaps   31: .Op Fl m Ns Ar format
1.58      kristaps   32: .Op Fl O Ns Ar option
1.37      kristaps   33: .Op Fl T Ns Ar output
1.77      schwarze   34: .Op Fl W Ns Ar level
1.89      kristaps   35: .Op Ar
1.1       kristaps   36: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     37: The
                     38: .Nm
1.26      kristaps   39: utility formats
1.8       kristaps   40: .Ux
1.57      kristaps   41: manual pages for display.
1.100     kristaps   42: .Pp
                     43: By default,
                     44: .Nm
                     45: reads
                     46: .Xr mdoc 7
                     47: or
                     48: .Xr man 7
                     49: text from stdin, implying
                     50: .Fl m Ns Cm andoc ,
                     51: and produces
1.128     schwarze   52: .Fl T Ns Cm locale
1.100     kristaps   53: output.
                     54: .Pp
1.109     schwarze   55: The options are as follows:
1.19      kristaps   56: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.107     schwarze   57: .It Fl a
                     58: If the standard output is a terminal device and
                     59: .Fl c
                     60: is not specified, use
                     61: .Xr more 1
                     62: to paginate the output, just like
                     63: .Xr man 1
                     64: would.
                     65: .It Fl c
                     66: Copy the formatted manual pages to the standard output without using
                     67: .Xr more 1
                     68: to paginate them.
                     69: This is the default.
                     70: It can be specified to override
                     71: .Fl a .
1.109     schwarze   72: .It Fl f
                     73: A synonym for
                     74: .Xr whatis 1 .
                     75: This overrides any earlier
                     76: .Fl k
                     77: and
                     78: .Fl l
                     79: options.
1.101     schwarze   80: .Sm off
                     81: .It Fl I Cm os Li = Ar name
                     82: .Sm on
                     83: Override the default operating system
                     84: .Ar name
                     85: for the
                     86: .Xr mdoc 7
                     87: .Sq \&Os
1.130     schwarze   88: and for the
                     89: .Xr man 7
                     90: .Sq \&TH
1.101     schwarze   91: macro.
1.110     schwarze   92: .It Fl h
                     93: Display only the SYNOPSIS lines.
                     94: Implies
1.122     schwarze   95: .Fl c .
1.119     schwarze   96: .It Fl K Ns Ar encoding
                     97: Specify the input encoding.
                     98: The supported
                     99: .Ar encoding
                    100: arguments are
                    101: .Cm us-ascii ,
                    102: .Cm iso-8859-1 ,
                    103: and
                    104: .Cm utf-8 .
                    105: If not specified, autodetection uses the first match:
                    106: .Bl -tag -width iso-8859-1
                    107: .It Cm utf-8
                    108: if the first three bytes of the input file
                    109: are the UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM, 0xefbbbf)
                    110: .It Ar encoding
                    111: if the first or second line of the input file matches the
                    112: .Sy emacs
                    113: mode line format
                    114: .Pp
                    115: .D1 .\e" -*- Oo ...; Oc coding: Ar encoding ; No -*-
                    116: .It Cm utf-8
                    117: if the first non-ASCII byte in the file introduces a valid UTF-8 sequence
                    118: .It Cm iso-8859-1
                    119: otherwise
                    120: .El
1.109     schwarze  121: .It Fl k
                    122: A synonym for
                    123: .Xr apropos 1 .
                    124: This overrides any earlier
                    125: .Fl f
                    126: and
                    127: .Fl l
                    128: options.
                    129: .It Fl l
                    130: A synonym for
                    131: .Fl a .
                    132: Also reverts any earlier
                    133: .Fl f
                    134: and
                    135: .Fl k
                    136: options.
1.19      kristaps  137: .It Fl m Ns Ar format
1.57      kristaps  138: Input format.
                    139: See
1.8       kristaps  140: .Sx Input Formats
1.57      kristaps  141: for available formats.
                    142: Defaults to
1.58      kristaps  143: .Fl m Ns Cm andoc .
                    144: .It Fl O Ns Ar option
1.57      kristaps  145: Comma-separated output options.
1.19      kristaps  146: .It Fl T Ns Ar output
1.57      kristaps  147: Output format.
                    148: See
1.1       kristaps  149: .Sx Output Formats
1.57      kristaps  150: for available formats.
                    151: Defaults to
1.128     schwarze  152: .Fl T Ns Cm locale .
1.1       kristaps  153: .It Fl V
                    154: Print version and exit.
1.77      schwarze  155: .It Fl W Ns Ar level
                    156: Specify the minimum message
                    157: .Ar level
                    158: to be reported on the standard error output and to affect the exit status.
                    159: The
                    160: .Ar level
                    161: can be
1.133     schwarze  162: .Cm warning ,
                    163: .Cm error ,
1.77      schwarze  164: or
1.133     schwarze  165: .Cm unsupp ;
1.132     schwarze  166: .Cm all
1.77      schwarze  167: is an alias for
1.132     schwarze  168: .Cm warning .
                    169: By default,
                    170: .Nm
                    171: is silent.
1.77      schwarze  172: See
                    173: .Sx EXIT STATUS
                    174: and
                    175: .Sx DIAGNOSTICS
                    176: for details.
                    177: .Pp
                    178: The special option
                    179: .Fl W Ns Cm stop
                    180: tells
                    181: .Nm
                    182: to exit after parsing a file that causes warnings or errors of at least
                    183: the requested level.
                    184: No formatted output will be produced from that file.
                    185: If both a
                    186: .Ar level
                    187: and
                    188: .Cm stop
                    189: are requested, they can be joined with a comma, for example
                    190: .Fl W Ns Cm error , Ns Cm stop .
1.58      kristaps  191: .It Ar file
                    192: Read input from zero or more files.
1.57      kristaps  193: If unspecified, reads from stdin.
                    194: If multiple files are specified,
1.2       kristaps  195: .Nm
                    196: will halt with the first failed parse.
1.1       kristaps  197: .El
1.109     schwarze  198: .Pp
                    199: In
                    200: .Fl f
                    201: and
                    202: .Fl k
                    203: mode,
                    204: .Nm
                    205: also supports the options
                    206: .Fl CMmOSsw
                    207: described in the
                    208: .Xr apropos 1
                    209: manual.
1.8       kristaps  210: .Ss Input Formats
                    211: The
                    212: .Nm
                    213: utility accepts
                    214: .Xr mdoc 7
                    215: and
                    216: .Xr man 7
                    217: input with
1.58      kristaps  218: .Fl m Ns Cm doc
1.8       kristaps  219: and
1.58      kristaps  220: .Fl m Ns Cm an ,
1.57      kristaps  221: respectively.
                    222: The
1.8       kristaps  223: .Xr mdoc 7
                    224: format is
                    225: .Em strongly
1.26      kristaps  226: recommended;
1.8       kristaps  227: .Xr man 7
                    228: should only be used for legacy manuals.
1.11      kristaps  229: .Pp
1.12      kristaps  230: A third option,
1.58      kristaps  231: .Fl m Ns Cm andoc ,
1.13      kristaps  232: which is also the default, determines encoding on-the-fly: if the first
1.26      kristaps  233: non-comment macro is
1.27      kristaps  234: .Sq \&Dd
1.13      kristaps  235: or
1.27      kristaps  236: .Sq \&Dt ,
1.26      kristaps  237: the
1.13      kristaps  238: .Xr mdoc 7
                    239: parser is used; otherwise, the
                    240: .Xr man 7
                    241: parser is used.
                    242: .Pp
                    243: If multiple
1.26      kristaps  244: files are specified with
1.58      kristaps  245: .Fl m Ns Cm andoc ,
1.57      kristaps  246: each has its file-type determined this way.
                    247: If multiple files are
1.13      kristaps  248: specified and
1.58      kristaps  249: .Fl m Ns Cm doc
1.12      kristaps  250: or
1.58      kristaps  251: .Fl m Ns Cm an
1.12      kristaps  252: is specified, then this format is used exclusively.
1.1       kristaps  253: .Ss Output Formats
                    254: The
                    255: .Nm
                    256: utility accepts the following
                    257: .Fl T
1.66      kristaps  258: arguments, which correspond to output modes:
1.93      schwarze  259: .Bl -tag -width "-Tlocale"
1.58      kristaps  260: .It Fl T Ns Cm ascii
1.81      kristaps  261: Produce 7-bit ASCII output.
1.57      kristaps  262: See
1.48      kristaps  263: .Sx ASCII Output .
1.58      kristaps  264: .It Fl T Ns Cm html
1.116     kristaps  265: Produce HTML5, CSS1, and MathML output.
1.57      kristaps  266: See
1.48      kristaps  267: .Sx HTML Output .
1.58      kristaps  268: .It Fl T Ns Cm lint
                    269: Parse only: produce no output.
                    270: Implies
1.77      schwarze  271: .Fl W Ns Cm warning .
1.93      schwarze  272: .It Fl T Ns Cm locale
                    273: Encode output using the current locale.
1.128     schwarze  274: This is the default.
1.93      schwarze  275: See
                    276: .Sx Locale Output .
1.91      schwarze  277: .It Fl T Ns Cm man
1.95      kristaps  278: Produce
1.91      schwarze  279: .Xr man 7
1.95      kristaps  280: format output.
                    281: See
                    282: .Sx Man Output .
1.73      kristaps  283: .It Fl T Ns Cm pdf
                    284: Produce PDF output.
                    285: See
                    286: .Sx PDF Output .
1.62      kristaps  287: .It Fl T Ns Cm ps
                    288: Produce PostScript output.
                    289: See
                    290: .Sx PostScript Output .
1.58      kristaps  291: .It Fl T Ns Cm tree
                    292: Produce an indented parse tree.
1.93      schwarze  293: .It Fl T Ns Cm utf8
                    294: Encode output in the UTF\-8 multi-byte format.
                    295: See
                    296: .Sx UTF\-8 Output .
1.58      kristaps  297: .It Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
1.114     kristaps  298: This is a synonym for
                    299: .Fl T Ns Cm html .
1.1       kristaps  300: .El
1.13      kristaps  301: .Pp
                    302: If multiple input files are specified, these will be processed by the
                    303: corresponding filter in-order.
1.66      kristaps  304: .Ss ASCII Output
                    305: Output produced by
1.128     schwarze  306: .Fl T Ns Cm ascii
                    307: is rendered in standard 7-bit ASCII documented in
1.66      kristaps  308: .Xr ascii 7 .
                    309: .Pp
                    310: Font styles are applied by using back-spaced encoding such that an
                    311: underlined character
                    312: .Sq c
                    313: is rendered as
                    314: .Sq _ Ns \e[bs] Ns c ,
                    315: where
                    316: .Sq \e[bs]
                    317: is the back-space character number 8.
                    318: Emboldened characters are rendered as
                    319: .Sq c Ns \e[bs] Ns c .
                    320: .Pp
                    321: The special characters documented in
                    322: .Xr mandoc_char 7
                    323: are rendered best-effort in an ASCII equivalent.
                    324: .Pp
                    325: Output width is limited to 78 visible columns unless literal input lines
                    326: exceed this limit.
                    327: .Pp
                    328: The following
                    329: .Fl O
                    330: arguments are accepted:
1.19      kristaps  331: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.98      schwarze  332: .It Cm indent Ns = Ns Ar indent
                    333: The left margin for normal text is set to
                    334: .Ar indent
                    335: blank characters instead of the default of five for
                    336: .Xr mdoc 7
                    337: and seven for
                    338: .Xr man 7 .
                    339: Increasing this is not recommended; it may result in degraded formatting,
1.99      schwarze  340: for example overfull lines or ugly line breaks.
1.66      kristaps  341: .It Cm width Ns = Ns Ar width
                    342: The output width is set to
                    343: .Ar width ,
1.141     schwarze  344: which will normalise to \(>=58.
1.1       kristaps  345: .El
1.66      kristaps  346: .Ss HTML Output
                    347: Output produced by
                    348: .Fl T Ns Cm html
1.114     kristaps  349: conforms to HTML5 using optional self-closing tags.
1.116     kristaps  350: Default styles use only CSS1.
                    351: Equations rendered from
                    352: .Xr eqn 7
                    353: blocks use MathML.
1.66      kristaps  354: .Pp
1.61      kristaps  355: The
1.66      kristaps  356: .Pa example.style.css
1.83      kristaps  357: file documents style-sheet classes available for customising output.
                    358: If a style-sheet is not specified with
                    359: .Fl O Ns Ar style ,
                    360: .Fl T Ns Cm html
1.114     kristaps  361: defaults to simple output (via an embedded style-sheet)
                    362: readable in any graphical or text-based web
1.83      kristaps  363: browser.
1.66      kristaps  364: .Pp
1.89      kristaps  365: Special characters are rendered in decimal-encoded UTF\-8.
1.66      kristaps  366: .Pp
                    367: The following
1.64      kristaps  368: .Fl O
1.66      kristaps  369: arguments are accepted:
1.37      kristaps  370: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.94      kristaps  371: .It Cm fragment
1.123     schwarze  372: Omit the <!DOCTYPE> declaration and the <html>, <head>, and <body>
                    373: elements and only emit the subtree below the <body> element.
1.94      kristaps  374: The
                    375: .Cm style
1.97      schwarze  376: argument will be ignored.
1.94      kristaps  377: This is useful when embedding manual content within existing documents.
1.64      kristaps  378: .It Cm includes Ns = Ns Ar fmt
1.40      kristaps  379: The string
                    380: .Ar fmt ,
1.49      kristaps  381: for example,
1.40      kristaps  382: .Ar ../src/%I.html ,
                    383: is used as a template for linked header files (usually via the
                    384: .Sq \&In
1.57      kristaps  385: macro).
                    386: Instances of
1.43      kristaps  387: .Sq \&%I
1.57      kristaps  388: are replaced with the include filename.
                    389: The default is not to present a
1.40      kristaps  390: hyperlink.
1.64      kristaps  391: .It Cm man Ns = Ns Ar fmt
1.39      kristaps  392: The string
                    393: .Ar fmt ,
1.49      kristaps  394: for example,
1.39      kristaps  395: .Ar ../html%S/%N.%S.html ,
                    396: is used as a template for linked manuals (usually via the
1.37      kristaps  397: .Sq \&Xr
1.57      kristaps  398: macro).
                    399: Instances of
1.43      kristaps  400: .Sq \&%N
1.40      kristaps  401: and
                    402: .Sq %S
                    403: are replaced with the linked manual's name and section, respectively.
1.57      kristaps  404: If no section is included, section 1 is assumed.
                    405: The default is not to
1.40      kristaps  406: present a hyperlink.
1.64      kristaps  407: .It Cm style Ns = Ns Ar style.css
1.58      kristaps  408: The file
                    409: .Ar style.css
                    410: is used for an external style-sheet.
                    411: This must be a valid absolute or
                    412: relative URI.
1.61      kristaps  413: .El
1.93      schwarze  414: .Ss Locale Output
                    415: Locale-depending output encoding is triggered with
                    416: .Fl T Ns Cm locale .
1.128     schwarze  417: This is the default.
                    418: .Pp
1.93      schwarze  419: This option is not available on all systems: systems without locale
                    420: support, or those whose internal representation is not natively UCS-4,
                    421: will fall back to
                    422: .Fl T Ns Cm ascii .
                    423: See
                    424: .Sx ASCII Output
                    425: for font style specification and available command-line arguments.
1.95      kristaps  426: .Ss Man Output
                    427: Translate input format into
                    428: .Xr man 7
                    429: output format.
1.102     schwarze  430: This is useful for distributing manual sources to legacy systems
1.96      kristaps  431: lacking
1.95      kristaps  432: .Xr mdoc 7
                    433: formatters.
                    434: .Pp
                    435: If
                    436: .Xr mdoc 7
                    437: is passed as input, it is translated into
1.97      schwarze  438: .Xr man 7 .
                    439: If the input format is
1.95      kristaps  440: .Xr man 7 ,
1.97      schwarze  441: the input is copied to the output, expanding any
1.95      kristaps  442: .Xr roff 7
                    443: .Sq so
1.97      schwarze  444: requests.
                    445: The parser is also run, and as usual, the
                    446: .Fl W
                    447: level controls which
                    448: .Sx DIAGNOSTICS
                    449: are displayed before copying the input to the output.
1.93      schwarze  450: .Ss PDF Output
                    451: PDF-1.1 output may be generated by
                    452: .Fl T Ns Cm pdf .
                    453: See
                    454: .Sx PostScript Output
                    455: for
                    456: .Fl O
                    457: arguments and defaults.
1.62      kristaps  458: .Ss PostScript Output
1.65      kristaps  459: PostScript
                    460: .Qq Adobe-3.0
                    461: Level-2 pages may be generated by
1.62      kristaps  462: .Fl T Ns Cm ps .
1.67      kristaps  463: Output pages default to letter sized and are rendered in the Times font
1.70      kristaps  464: family, 11-point.
                    465: Margins are calculated as 1/9 the page length and width.
1.71      kristaps  466: Line-height is 1.4m.
1.66      kristaps  467: .Pp
                    468: Special characters are rendered as in
                    469: .Sx ASCII Output .
                    470: .Pp
                    471: The following
                    472: .Fl O
                    473: arguments are accepted:
                    474: .Bl -tag -width Ds
                    475: .It Cm paper Ns = Ns Ar name
                    476: The paper size
                    477: .Ar name
                    478: may be one of
1.68      kristaps  479: .Ar a3 ,
                    480: .Ar a4 ,
                    481: .Ar a5 ,
                    482: .Ar legal ,
1.66      kristaps  483: or
                    484: .Ar letter .
1.68      kristaps  485: You may also manually specify dimensions as
                    486: .Ar NNxNN ,
                    487: width by height in millimetres.
                    488: If an unknown value is encountered,
                    489: .Ar letter
                    490: is used.
1.66      kristaps  491: .El
1.93      schwarze  492: .Ss UTF\-8 Output
                    493: Use
                    494: .Fl T Ns Cm utf8
                    495: to force a UTF\-8 locale.
1.73      kristaps  496: See
1.93      schwarze  497: .Sx Locale Output
                    498: for details and options.
1.108     schwarze  499: .Sh ENVIRONMENT
                    500: .Bl -tag -width MANPAGER
                    501: .It Ev MANPAGER
                    502: Any non-empty value of the environment variable
                    503: .Ev MANPAGER
                    504: will be used instead of the standard pagination program,
                    505: .Xr more 1 .
                    506: .It Ev PAGER
                    507: Specifies the pagination program to use when
                    508: .Ev MANPAGER
                    509: is not defined.
                    510: If neither PAGER nor MANPAGER is defined,
                    511: .Pa /usr/bin/more Fl s
                    512: will be used.
                    513: .El
1.77      schwarze  514: .Sh EXIT STATUS
                    515: The
                    516: .Nm
                    517: utility exits with one of the following values, controlled by the message
                    518: .Ar level
                    519: associated with the
                    520: .Fl W
                    521: option:
                    522: .Pp
                    523: .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
                    524: .It 0
                    525: No warnings or errors occurred, or those that did were ignored because
                    526: they were lower than the requested
                    527: .Ar level .
                    528: .It 2
                    529: At least one warning occurred, but no error, and
                    530: .Fl W Ns Cm warning
                    531: was specified.
                    532: .It 3
1.133     schwarze  533: At least one parsing error occurred,
                    534: but no unsupported feature was encountered, and
                    535: .Fl W Ns Cm error
                    536: or
                    537: .Fl W Ns Cm warning
                    538: was specified.
                    539: .It 4
1.134     schwarze  540: At least one unsupported feature was encountered, and
1.133     schwarze  541: .Fl W Ns Cm unsupp ,
1.77      schwarze  542: .Fl W Ns Cm error
                    543: or
                    544: .Fl W Ns Cm warning
                    545: was specified.
                    546: .It 5
                    547: Invalid command line arguments were specified.
                    548: No input files have been read.
                    549: .It 6
1.131     schwarze  550: An operating system error occurred, for example exhaustion
                    551: of memory, file descriptors, or process table entries.
1.77      schwarze  552: Such errors cause
                    553: .Nm
                    554: to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or formatting a file.
                    555: .El
                    556: .Pp
                    557: Note that selecting
                    558: .Fl T Ns Cm lint
                    559: output mode implies
                    560: .Fl W Ns Cm warning .
1.1       kristaps  561: .Sh EXAMPLES
1.13      kristaps  562: To page manuals to the terminal:
1.1       kristaps  563: .Pp
1.82      kristaps  564: .Dl $ mandoc \-Wall,stop mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less
                    565: .Dl $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less
1.28      kristaps  566: .Pp
1.41      kristaps  567: To produce HTML manuals with
                    568: .Ar style.css
                    569: as the style-sheet:
1.38      kristaps  570: .Pp
1.82      kristaps  571: .Dl $ mandoc \-Thtml -Ostyle=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html
1.38      kristaps  572: .Pp
1.28      kristaps  573: To check over a large set of manuals:
                    574: .Pp
1.77      schwarze  575: .Dl $ mandoc \-Tlint `find /usr/src -name \e*\e.[1-9]`
1.66      kristaps  576: .Pp
                    577: To produce a series of PostScript manuals for A4 paper:
                    578: .Pp
1.82      kristaps  579: .Dl $ mandoc \-Tps \-Opaper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps
1.91      schwarze  580: .Pp
                    581: Convert a modern
                    582: .Xr mdoc 7
                    583: manual to the older
                    584: .Xr man 7
                    585: format, for use on systems lacking an
                    586: .Xr mdoc 7
                    587: parser:
                    588: .Pp
                    589: .Dl $ mandoc \-Tman foo.mdoc \*(Gt foo.man
1.77      schwarze  590: .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
1.106     schwarze  591: Messages displayed by
                    592: .Nm
                    593: follow this format:
1.77      schwarze  594: .Pp
1.106     schwarze  595: .D1 Nm Ns : Ar file : Ns Ar line : Ns Ar column : level : message : macro args
1.77      schwarze  596: .Pp
1.106     schwarze  597: Line and column numbers start at 1.
                    598: Both are omitted for messages referring to an input file as a whole.
                    599: Macro names and arguments are omitted where meaningless.
                    600: Fatal messages about invalid command line arguments
                    601: or operating system errors, for example when memory is exhausted,
                    602: may also omit the
                    603: .Ar file
1.104     schwarze  604: and
1.106     schwarze  605: .Ar level
                    606: fields.
1.104     schwarze  607: .Pp
1.77      schwarze  608: Message levels have the following meanings:
                    609: .Bl -tag -width "warning"
1.133     schwarze  610: .It Cm unsupp
                    611: An input file uses unsupported low-level
                    612: .Xr roff 7
                    613: features.
                    614: The output may be incomplete and/or misformatted,
                    615: so using GNU troff instead of
                    616: .Nm
                    617: to process the file may be preferable.
1.77      schwarze  618: .It Cm error
1.133     schwarze  619: An input file contains invalid syntax that cannot be safely interpreted.
1.77      schwarze  620: By discarding part of the input or inserting missing tokens,
                    621: the parser is able to continue, and the error does not prevent
                    622: generation of formatted output, but typically, preparing that
                    623: output involves information loss, broken document structure
1.133     schwarze  624: or unintended formatting, no matter whether
                    625: .Nm
                    626: or GNU troff is used.
                    627: In many cases, the output of
                    628: .Nm
                    629: and GNU troff is identical, but in some,
                    630: .Nm
                    631: is more resilient than GNU troff with respect to malformed input.
1.131     schwarze  632: .Pp
                    633: Non-existent or unreadable input files are also reported on the
                    634: .Cm error
                    635: level.
                    636: In that case, the parser cannot even be started and no output
                    637: is produced from those input files.
1.77      schwarze  638: .It Cm warning
                    639: An input file uses obsolete, discouraged or non-portable syntax.
                    640: All the same, the meaning of the input is unambiguous and a correct
                    641: rendering can be produced.
                    642: Documents causing warnings may render poorly when using other
                    643: formatting tools instead of
                    644: .Nm .
                    645: .El
                    646: .Pp
                    647: Messages of the
1.133     schwarze  648: .Cm warning ,
                    649: .Cm error ,
1.77      schwarze  650: and
1.133     schwarze  651: .Cm unsupp
1.131     schwarze  652: levels except those about non-existent or unreadable input files
                    653: are hidden unless their level, or a lower level, is requested using a
1.77      schwarze  654: .Fl W
                    655: option or
                    656: .Fl T Ns Cm lint
                    657: output mode.
1.106     schwarze  658: .Ss Warnings related to the document prologue
                    659: .Bl -ohang
                    660: .It Sy "missing manual title, using UNTITLED"
                    661: .Pq mdoc
                    662: A
                    663: .Ic \&Dt
                    664: macro has no arguments, or there is no
                    665: .Ic \&Dt
                    666: macro before the first non-prologue macro.
                    667: .It Sy "missing manual title, using \(dq\(dq"
                    668: .Pq man
                    669: There is no
                    670: .Ic \&TH
                    671: macro, or it has no arguments.
                    672: .It Sy "lower case character in document title"
                    673: .Pq mdoc , man
                    674: The title is still used as given in the
                    675: .Ic \&Dt
                    676: or
                    677: .Ic \&TH
                    678: macro.
                    679: .It Sy "missing manual section, using \(dq\(dq"
                    680: .Pq mdoc , man
                    681: A
                    682: .Ic \&Dt
                    683: or
                    684: .Ic \&TH
                    685: macro lacks the mandatory section argument.
                    686: .It Sy "unknown manual section"
                    687: .Pq mdoc
                    688: The section number in a
                    689: .Ic \&Dt
                    690: line is invalid, but still used.
                    691: .It Sy "missing date, using today's date"
                    692: .Pq mdoc, man
                    693: The document was parsed as
                    694: .Xr mdoc 7
                    695: and it has no
                    696: .Ic \&Dd
                    697: macro, or the
                    698: .Ic \&Dd
                    699: macro has no arguments or only empty arguments;
                    700: or the document was parsed as
                    701: .Xr man 7
                    702: and it has no
                    703: .Ic \&TH
                    704: macro, or the
                    705: .Ic \&TH
                    706: macro has less than three arguments or its third argument is empty.
                    707: .It Sy "cannot parse date, using it verbatim"
                    708: .Pq mdoc , man
                    709: The date given in a
                    710: .Ic \&Dd
                    711: or
                    712: .Ic \&TH
                    713: macro does not follow the conventional format.
                    714: .It Sy "missing Os macro, using \(dq\(dq"
                    715: .Pq mdoc
                    716: The default or current system is not shown in this case.
                    717: .It Sy "duplicate prologue macro"
                    718: .Pq mdoc
                    719: One of the prologue macros occurs more than once.
                    720: The last instance overrides all previous ones.
                    721: .It Sy "late prologue macro"
                    722: .Pq mdoc
                    723: A
                    724: .Ic \&Dd
                    725: or
                    726: .Ic \&Os
                    727: macro occurs after some non-prologue macro, but still takes effect.
                    728: .It Sy "skipping late title macro"
                    729: .Pq mdoc
                    730: The
                    731: .Ic \&Dt
                    732: macro can only occur before the first non-prologue macro
                    733: because traditional formatters write the page header
                    734: before parsing the document body.
                    735: Even though this technical restriction does not apply to
                    736: .Nm ,
                    737: traditional semantics is preserved.
                    738: The late macro is discarded including its arguments.
                    739: .It Sy "prologue macros out of order"
                    740: .Pq mdoc
                    741: The prologue macros are not given in the conventional order
                    742: .Ic \&Dd ,
                    743: .Ic \&Dt ,
                    744: .Ic \&Os .
                    745: All three macros are used even when given in another order.
                    746: .El
                    747: .Ss Warnings regarding document structure
                    748: .Bl -ohang
                    749: .It Sy ".so is fragile, better use ln(1)"
                    750: .Pq roff
                    751: Including files only works when the parser program runs with the correct
                    752: current working directory.
                    753: .It Sy "no document body"
                    754: .Pq mdoc , man
                    755: The document body contains neither text nor macros.
                    756: An empty document is shown, consisting only of a header and a footer line.
                    757: .It Sy "content before first section header"
                    758: .Pq mdoc , man
                    759: Some macros or text precede the first
                    760: .Ic \&Sh
                    761: or
                    762: .Ic \&SH
                    763: section header.
                    764: The offending macros and text are parsed and added to the top level
                    765: of the syntax tree, outside any section block.
                    766: .It Sy "first section is not NAME"
                    767: .Pq mdoc
                    768: The argument of the first
                    769: .Ic \&Sh
                    770: macro is not
                    771: .Sq NAME .
                    772: This may confuse
                    773: .Xr makewhatis 8
                    774: and
                    775: .Xr apropos 1 .
                    776: .It Sy "bad NAME section contents"
                    777: .Pq mdoc
                    778: The last node in the NAME section is not an
                    779: .Ic \&Nd
                    780: macro, or any preceding macro is not
                    781: .Ic \&Nm ,
                    782: or the NAME section is completely empty.
                    783: This may confuse
                    784: .Xr makewhatis 8
                    785: and
                    786: .Xr apropos 1 .
1.142     schwarze  787: .It Sy "missing description line, using \(dq\(dq"
                    788: .Pq mdoc
                    789: The
                    790: .Ic \&Nd
                    791: macro lacks the required argument.
                    792: The title line of the manual will end after the dash.
1.106     schwarze  793: .It Sy "sections out of conventional order"
                    794: .Pq mdoc
                    795: A standard section occurs after another section it usually precedes.
                    796: All section titles are used as given,
                    797: and the order of sections is not changed.
                    798: .It Sy "duplicate section title"
                    799: .Pq mdoc
                    800: The same standard section title occurs more than once.
                    801: .It Sy "unexpected section"
                    802: .Pq mdoc
                    803: A standard section header occurs in a section of the manual
                    804: where it normally isn't useful.
1.112     schwarze  805: .It Sy "unusual Xr order"
                    806: .Pq mdoc
                    807: In the SEE ALSO section, an
                    808: .Ic \&Xr
                    809: macro with a lower section number follows one with a higher number,
                    810: or two
                    811: .Ic \&Xr
                    812: macros refering to the same section are out of alphabetical order.
                    813: .It Sy "unusual Xr punctuation"
                    814: .Pq mdoc
                    815: In the SEE ALSO section, punctuation between two
                    816: .Ic \&Xr
                    817: macros differs from a single comma, or there is trailing punctuation
                    818: after the last
                    819: .Ic \&Xr
                    820: macro.
1.111     schwarze  821: .It Sy "AUTHORS section without An macro"
                    822: .Pq mdoc
                    823: An AUTHORS sections contains no
                    824: .Ic \&An
                    825: macros, or only empty ones.
                    826: Probably, there are author names lacking markup.
1.106     schwarze  827: .El
                    828: .Ss "Warnings related to macros and nesting"
                    829: .Bl -ohang
                    830: .It Sy "obsolete macro"
                    831: .Pq mdoc
                    832: See the
                    833: .Xr mdoc 7
                    834: manual for replacements.
1.126     schwarze  835: .It Sy "macro neither callable nor escaped"
                    836: .Pq mdoc
                    837: The name of a macro that is not callable appears on a macro line.
                    838: It is printed verbatim.
                    839: If the intention is to call it, move it to its own line;
                    840: otherwise, escape it by prepending
                    841: .Sq \e& .
1.106     schwarze  842: .It Sy "skipping paragraph macro"
                    843: In
                    844: .Xr mdoc 7
                    845: documents, this happens
                    846: .Bl -dash -compact
                    847: .It
                    848: at the beginning and end of sections and subsections
                    849: .It
                    850: right before non-compact lists and displays
                    851: .It
                    852: at the end of items in non-column, non-compact lists
                    853: .It
                    854: and for multiple consecutive paragraph macros.
                    855: .El
                    856: In
                    857: .Xr man 7
                    858: documents, it happens
                    859: .Bl -dash -compact
                    860: .It
                    861: for empty
                    862: .Ic \&P ,
                    863: .Ic \&PP ,
                    864: and
                    865: .Ic \&LP
                    866: macros
                    867: .It
                    868: for
                    869: .Ic \&IP
                    870: macros having neither head nor body arguments
                    871: .It
                    872: for
                    873: .Ic \&br
                    874: or
                    875: .Ic \&sp
                    876: right after
                    877: .Ic \&SH
                    878: or
                    879: .Ic \&SS
                    880: .El
                    881: .It Sy "moving paragraph macro out of list"
                    882: .Pq mdoc
                    883: A list item in a
                    884: .Ic \&Bl
                    885: list contains a trailing paragraph macro.
                    886: The paragraph macro is moved after the end of the list.
                    887: .It Sy "skipping no-space macro"
                    888: .Pq mdoc
                    889: An input line begins with an
                    890: .Ic \&Ns
                    891: macro.
                    892: The macro is ignored.
                    893: .It Sy "blocks badly nested"
                    894: .Pq mdoc
                    895: If two blocks intersect, one should completely contain the other.
                    896: Otherwise, rendered output is likely to look strange in any output
                    897: format, and rendering in SGML-based output formats is likely to be
                    898: outright wrong because such languages do not support badly nested
                    899: blocks at all.
                    900: Typical examples of badly nested blocks are
                    901: .Qq Ic \&Ao \&Bo \&Ac \&Bc
                    902: and
                    903: .Qq Ic \&Ao \&Bq \&Ac .
                    904: In these examples,
                    905: .Ic \&Ac
                    906: breaks
                    907: .Ic \&Bo
                    908: and
                    909: .Ic \&Bq ,
                    910: respectively.
                    911: .It Sy "nested displays are not portable"
                    912: .Pq mdoc
                    913: A
                    914: .Ic \&Bd ,
                    915: .Ic \&D1 ,
                    916: or
                    917: .Ic \&Dl
                    918: display occurs nested inside another
                    919: .Ic \&Bd
                    920: display.
                    921: This works with
                    922: .Nm ,
                    923: but fails with most other implementations.
                    924: .It Sy "moving content out of list"
                    925: .Pq mdoc
                    926: A
                    927: .Ic \&Bl
                    928: list block contains text or macros before the first
                    929: .Ic \&It
                    930: macro.
                    931: The offending children are moved before the beginning of the list.
                    932: .It Sy ".Vt block has child macro"
                    933: .Pq mdoc
                    934: The
                    935: .Ic \&Vt
                    936: macro supports plain text arguments only.
                    937: Formatting may be ugly and semantic searching
                    938: for the affected content might not work.
                    939: .It Sy "fill mode already enabled, skipping"
                    940: .Pq man
                    941: A
                    942: .Ic \&fi
                    943: request occurs even though the document is still in fill mode,
                    944: or already switched back to fill mode.
                    945: It has no effect.
                    946: .It Sy "fill mode already disabled, skipping"
                    947: .Pq man
                    948: An
                    949: .Ic \&nf
                    950: request occurs even though the document already switched to no-fill mode
                    951: and did not switch back to fill mode yet.
                    952: It has no effect.
                    953: .It Sy "line scope broken"
                    954: .Pq man
                    955: While parsing the next-line scope of the previous macro,
                    956: another macro is found that prematurely terminates the previous one.
                    957: The previous, interrupted macro is deleted from the parse tree.
                    958: .El
                    959: .Ss "Warnings related to missing arguments"
                    960: .Bl -ohang
                    961: .It Sy "skipping empty request"
1.118     schwarze  962: .Pq roff , eqn
                    963: The macro name is missing from a macro definition request,
                    964: or an
                    965: .Xr eqn 7
                    966: control statement or operation keyword lacks its required argument.
1.106     schwarze  967: .It Sy "conditional request controls empty scope"
                    968: .Pq roff
                    969: A conditional request is only useful if any of the following
                    970: follows it on the same logical input line:
                    971: .Bl -dash -compact
                    972: .It
                    973: The
                    974: .Sq \e{
                    975: keyword to open a multi-line scope.
                    976: .It
                    977: A request or macro or some text, resulting in a single-line scope.
                    978: .It
                    979: The immediate end of the logical line without any intervening whitespace,
                    980: resulting in next-line scope.
                    981: .El
                    982: Here, a conditional request is followed by trailing whitespace only,
                    983: and there is no other content on its logical input line.
                    984: Note that it doesn't matter whether the logical input line is split
                    985: across multiple physical input lines using
                    986: .Sq \e
                    987: line continuation characters.
                    988: This is one of the rare cases
                    989: where trailing whitespace is syntactically significant.
                    990: The conditional request controls a scope containing whitespace only,
                    991: so it is unlikely to have a significant effect,
                    992: except that it may control a following
                    993: .Ic \&el
                    994: clause.
                    995: .It Sy "skipping empty macro"
                    996: .Pq mdoc
                    997: The indicated macro has no arguments and hence no effect.
                    998: .It Sy "empty argument, using 0n"
                    999: .Pq mdoc
                   1000: The required width is missing after
                   1001: .Ic \&Bd
                   1002: or
                   1003: .Ic \&Bl
                   1004: .Fl offset
                   1005: or
                   1006: .Fl width.
                   1007: .It Sy "argument count wrong"
                   1008: .Pq mdoc , man
                   1009: The indicated macro has too few or too many arguments.
                   1010: The syntax tree will contain the wrong number of arguments as given.
                   1011: Formatting behaviour depends on the specific macro in question.
                   1012: Note that the same message may also occur as an ERROR, see below.
                   1013: .It Sy "missing display type, using -ragged"
                   1014: .Pq mdoc
                   1015: The
                   1016: .Ic \&Bd
                   1017: macro is invoked without the required display type.
                   1018: .It Sy "list type is not the first argument"
                   1019: .Pq mdoc
                   1020: In a
                   1021: .Ic \&Bl
                   1022: macro, at least one other argument precedes the type argument.
                   1023: The
                   1024: .Nm
                   1025: utility copes with any argument order, but some other
                   1026: .Xr mdoc 7
                   1027: implementations do not.
                   1028: .It Sy "missing -width in -tag list, using 8n"
                   1029: .Pq mdoc
                   1030: Every
                   1031: .Ic \&Bl
                   1032: macro having the
                   1033: .Fl tag
                   1034: argument requires
                   1035: .Fl width ,
                   1036: too.
                   1037: .It Sy "missing utility name, using \(dq\(dq"
                   1038: .Pq mdoc
                   1039: The
                   1040: .Ic \&Ex Fl std
                   1041: macro is called without an argument before
                   1042: .Ic \&Nm
                   1043: has first been called with an argument.
                   1044: .It Sy "empty head in list item"
                   1045: .Pq mdoc
                   1046: In a
                   1047: .Ic \&Bl
                   1048: .Fl diag ,
                   1049: .Fl hang ,
                   1050: .Fl inset ,
                   1051: .Fl ohang ,
                   1052: or
                   1053: .Fl tag
                   1054: list, an
                   1055: .Ic \&It
                   1056: macro lacks the required argument.
                   1057: The item head is left empty.
                   1058: .It Sy "empty list item"
                   1059: .Pq mdoc
                   1060: In a
                   1061: .Ic \&Bl
                   1062: .Fl bullet ,
                   1063: .Fl dash ,
                   1064: .Fl enum ,
                   1065: or
                   1066: .Fl hyphen
                   1067: list, an
                   1068: .Ic \&It
                   1069: block is empty.
                   1070: An empty list item is shown.
                   1071: .It Sy "missing font type"
                   1072: .Pq mdoc
                   1073: A
                   1074: .Ic \&Bf
                   1075: macro has no argument.
                   1076: It switches to the default font,
                   1077: .Cm \efR .
                   1078: .It Sy "unknown font type"
                   1079: .Pq mdoc
                   1080: The
                   1081: .Ic \&Bf
                   1082: argument is invalid.
                   1083: The default font
                   1084: .Cm \efR
                   1085: is used instead.
1.127     schwarze 1086: .It Sy "nothing follows prefix"
                   1087: .Pq mdoc
                   1088: A
                   1089: .Ic \&Pf
                   1090: macro has no argument, or only one argument and no macro follows
                   1091: on the same input line.
                   1092: This defeats its purpose; in particular, spacing is not suppressed
                   1093: before the text or macros following on the next input line.
1.143     schwarze 1094: .It Sy "empty reference block"
                   1095: .Pq mdoc
                   1096: An
                   1097: .Ic \&Rs
                   1098: macro is immediately followed by an
                   1099: .Ic \&Re
                   1100: macro on the next input line.
                   1101: Such an empty block does not produce any output.
1.106     schwarze 1102: .It Sy "missing -std argument, adding it"
                   1103: .Pq mdoc
                   1104: An
                   1105: .Ic \&Ex
                   1106: or
                   1107: .Ic \&Rv
                   1108: macro lacks the required
                   1109: .Fl std
                   1110: argument.
                   1111: The
                   1112: .Nm
                   1113: utility assumes
                   1114: .Fl std
                   1115: even when it is not specified, but other implementations may not.
1.118     schwarze 1116: .It Sy "missing eqn box, using \(dq\(dq"
                   1117: .Pq eqn
                   1118: A diacritic mark or a binary operator is found,
                   1119: but there is nothing to the left of it.
                   1120: An empty box is inserted.
1.106     schwarze 1121: .El
                   1122: .Ss "Warnings related to bad macro arguments"
                   1123: .Bl -ohang
                   1124: .It Sy "unterminated quoted argument"
                   1125: .Pq roff
                   1126: Macro arguments can be enclosed in double quote characters
                   1127: such that space characters and macro names contained in the quoted
                   1128: argument need not be escaped.
                   1129: The closing quote of the last argument of a macro can be omitted.
                   1130: However, omitting it is not recommended because it makes the code
                   1131: harder to read.
                   1132: .It Sy "duplicate argument"
                   1133: .Pq mdoc
                   1134: A
                   1135: .Ic \&Bd
                   1136: or
                   1137: .Ic \&Bl
                   1138: macro has more than one
                   1139: .Fl compact ,
                   1140: more than one
                   1141: .Fl offset ,
                   1142: or more than one
                   1143: .Fl width
                   1144: argument.
                   1145: All but the last instances of these arguments are ignored.
                   1146: .It Sy "skipping duplicate argument"
                   1147: .Pq mdoc
                   1148: An
                   1149: .Ic \&An
                   1150: macro has more than one
                   1151: .Fl split
                   1152: or
                   1153: .Fl nosplit
                   1154: argument.
                   1155: All but the first of these arguments are ignored.
                   1156: .It Sy "skipping duplicate display type"
                   1157: .Pq mdoc
                   1158: A
                   1159: .Ic \&Bd
                   1160: macro has more than one type argument; the first one is used.
                   1161: .It Sy "skipping duplicate list type"
                   1162: .Pq mdoc
                   1163: A
                   1164: .Ic \&Bl
                   1165: macro has more than one type argument; the first one is used.
                   1166: .It Sy "skipping -width argument"
                   1167: .Pq mdoc
                   1168: A
                   1169: .Ic \&Bl
                   1170: .Fl column ,
                   1171: .Fl diag ,
                   1172: .Fl ohang ,
                   1173: .Fl inset ,
                   1174: or
                   1175: .Fl item
                   1176: list has a
                   1177: .Fl width
                   1178: argument.
                   1179: That has no effect.
                   1180: .It Sy "unknown AT&T UNIX version"
                   1181: .Pq mdoc
                   1182: An
                   1183: .Ic \&At
                   1184: macro has an invalid argument.
                   1185: It is used verbatim, with
                   1186: .Qq "AT&T UNIX "
                   1187: prefixed to it.
1.113     schwarze 1188: .It Sy "comma in function argument"
                   1189: .Pq mdoc
                   1190: An argument of an
                   1191: .Ic \&Fa
                   1192: or
                   1193: .Ic \&Fn
                   1194: macro contains a comma; it should probably be split into two arguments.
1.117     schwarze 1195: .It Sy "parenthesis in function name"
                   1196: .Pq mdoc
                   1197: The first argument of an
                   1198: .Ic \&Fc
                   1199: or
                   1200: .Ic \&Fn
                   1201: macro contains an opening or closing parenthesis; that's probably wrong,
                   1202: parentheses are added automatically.
1.106     schwarze 1203: .It Sy "invalid content in Rs block"
                   1204: .Pq mdoc
                   1205: An
                   1206: .Ic \&Rs
                   1207: block contains plain text or non-% macros.
                   1208: The bogus content is left in the syntax tree.
                   1209: Formatting may be poor.
                   1210: .It Sy "invalid Boolean argument"
                   1211: .Pq mdoc
                   1212: An
                   1213: .Ic \&Sm
                   1214: macro has an argument other than
                   1215: .Cm on
                   1216: or
                   1217: .Cm off .
                   1218: The invalid argument is moved out of the macro, which leaves the macro
                   1219: empty, causing it to toggle the spacing mode.
                   1220: .It Sy "unknown font, skipping request"
1.115     schwarze 1221: .Pq man , tbl
1.106     schwarze 1222: A
                   1223: .Xr roff 7
                   1224: .Ic \&ft
1.115     schwarze 1225: request or a
                   1226: .Xr tbl 7
                   1227: .Ic \&f
                   1228: layout modifier has an unknown
                   1229: .Ar font
                   1230: argument.
1.106     schwarze 1231: .El
                   1232: .Ss "Warnings related to plain text"
                   1233: .Bl -ohang
                   1234: .It Sy "blank line in fill mode, using .sp"
                   1235: .Pq mdoc
                   1236: The meaning of blank input lines is only well-defined in non-fill mode:
                   1237: In fill mode, line breaks of text input lines are not supposed to be
                   1238: significant.
                   1239: However, for compatibility with groff, blank lines in fill mode
                   1240: are replaced with
                   1241: .Ic \&sp
                   1242: requests.
                   1243: .It Sy "tab in filled text"
                   1244: .Pq mdoc , man
                   1245: The meaning of tab characters is only well-defined in non-fill mode:
                   1246: In fill mode, whitespace is not supposed to be significant
                   1247: on text input lines.
                   1248: As an implementation dependent choice, tab characters on text lines
                   1249: are passed through to the formatters in any case.
                   1250: Given that the text before the tab character will be filled,
                   1251: it is hard to predict which tab stop position the tab will advance to.
                   1252: .It Sy "whitespace at end of input line"
                   1253: .Pq mdoc , man , roff
                   1254: Whitespace at the end of input lines is almost never semantically
                   1255: significant \(em but in the odd case where it might be, it is
                   1256: extremely confusing when reviewing and maintaining documents.
                   1257: .It Sy "bad comment style"
                   1258: .Pq roff
                   1259: Comment lines start with a dot, a backslash, and a double-quote character.
                   1260: The
                   1261: .Nm
                   1262: utility treats the line as a comment line even without the backslash,
                   1263: but leaving out the backslash might not be portable.
                   1264: .It Sy "invalid escape sequence"
                   1265: .Pq roff
                   1266: An escape sequence has an invalid opening argument delimiter, lacks the
                   1267: closing argument delimiter, or the argument has too few characters.
                   1268: If the argument is incomplete,
                   1269: .Ic \e*
                   1270: and
                   1271: .Ic \en
                   1272: expand to an empty string,
                   1273: .Ic \eB
                   1274: to the digit
                   1275: .Sq 0 ,
                   1276: and
                   1277: .Ic \ew
                   1278: to the length of the incomplete argument.
                   1279: All other invalid escape sequences are ignored.
                   1280: .It Sy "undefined string, using \(dq\(dq"
                   1281: .Pq roff
                   1282: If a string is used without being defined before,
                   1283: its value is implicitly set to the empty string.
                   1284: However, defining strings explicitly before use
                   1285: keeps the code more readable.
                   1286: .El
1.138     schwarze 1287: .Ss "Warnings related to tables"
                   1288: .Bl -ohang
                   1289: .It Sy "tbl line starts with span"
                   1290: .Pq tbl
                   1291: The first cell in a table layout line is a horizontal span
                   1292: .Pq Sq Cm s .
                   1293: Data provided for this cell is ignored, and nothing is printed in the cell.
                   1294: .It Sy "tbl column starts with span"
                   1295: .Pq tbl
                   1296: The first line of a table layout specification
                   1297: requests a vertical span
                   1298: .Pq Sq Cm ^ .
                   1299: Data provided for this cell is ignored, and nothing is printed in the cell.
                   1300: .It Sy "skipping vertical bar in tbl layout"
                   1301: .Pq tbl
                   1302: A table layout specification contains more than two consecutive vertical bars.
                   1303: A double bar is printed, all additional bars are discarded.
1.106     schwarze 1304: .El
                   1305: .Ss "Errors related to tables"
1.136     schwarze 1306: .Bl -ohang
                   1307: .It Sy "non-alphabetic character in tbl options"
                   1308: .Pq tbl
                   1309: The table options line contains a character other than a letter,
                   1310: blank, or comma where the beginning of an option name is expected.
                   1311: The character is ignored.
                   1312: .It Sy "skipping unknown tbl option"
                   1313: .Pq tbl
                   1314: The table options line contains a string of letters that does not
                   1315: match any known option name.
                   1316: The word is ignored.
                   1317: .It Sy "missing tbl option argument"
                   1318: .Pq tbl
                   1319: A table option that requires an argument is not followed by an
                   1320: opening parenthesis, or the opening parenthesis is immediately
                   1321: followed by a closing parenthesis.
                   1322: The option is ignored.
                   1323: .It Sy "wrong tbl option argument size"
                   1324: .Pq tbl
                   1325: A table option argument contains an invalid number of characters.
                   1326: Both the option and the argument are ignored.
1.138     schwarze 1327: .It Sy "empty tbl layout"
                   1328: .Pq tbl
                   1329: A table layout specification is completely empty,
                   1330: specifying zero lines and zero columns.
                   1331: As a fallback, a single left-justified column is used.
                   1332: .It Sy "invalid character in tbl layout"
                   1333: .Pq tbl
                   1334: A table layout specification contains a character that can neither
                   1335: be interpreted as a layout key character nor as a layout modifier,
                   1336: or a modifier precedes the first key.
                   1337: The invalid character is discarded.
                   1338: .It Sy "unmatched parenthesis in tbl layout"
                   1339: .Pq tbl
                   1340: A table layout specification contains an opening parenthesis,
                   1341: but no matching closing parenthesis.
                   1342: The rest of the input line, starting from the parenthesis, has no effect.
1.139     schwarze 1343: .It Sy "tbl without any data cells"
                   1344: .Pq tbl
                   1345: A table does not contain any data cells.
                   1346: It will probably produce no output.
                   1347: .It Sy "ignoring data in spanned tbl cell"
                   1348: .Pq tbl
                   1349: A table cell is marked as a horizontal span
                   1350: .Pq Sq Cm s
                   1351: or vertical span
                   1352: .Pq Sq Cm ^
                   1353: in the table layout, but it contains data.
                   1354: The data is ignored.
                   1355: .It Sy "ignoring extra tbl data cells"
                   1356: .Pq tbl
                   1357: A data line contains more cells than the corresponding layout line.
                   1358: The data in the extra cells is ignored.
                   1359: .It Sy "data block open at end of tbl"
                   1360: .Pq tbl
                   1361: A data block is opened with
                   1362: .Cm T{ ,
                   1363: but never closed with a matching
                   1364: .Cm T} .
                   1365: The remaining data lines of the table are all put into one cell,
                   1366: and any remaining cells stay empty.
1.106     schwarze 1367: .El
                   1368: .Ss "Errors related to roff, mdoc, and man code"
                   1369: .Bl -ohang
                   1370: .It Sy "input stack limit exceeded, infinite loop?"
                   1371: .Pq roff
                   1372: Explicit recursion limits are implemented for the following features,
                   1373: in order to prevent infinite loops:
                   1374: .Bl -dash -compact
                   1375: .It
                   1376: expansion of nested escape sequences
                   1377: including expansion of strings and number registers,
                   1378: .It
                   1379: expansion of nested user-defined macros,
                   1380: .It
                   1381: and
                   1382: .Ic \&so
                   1383: file inclusion.
                   1384: .El
                   1385: When a limit is hit, the output is incorrect, typically losing
                   1386: some content, but the parser can continue.
                   1387: .It Sy "skipping bad character"
                   1388: .Pq mdoc , man , roff
                   1389: The input file contains a byte that is not a printable
                   1390: .Xr ascii 7
                   1391: character.
                   1392: The message mentions the character number.
                   1393: The offending byte is replaced with a question mark
                   1394: .Pq Sq \&? .
                   1395: Consider editing the input file to replace the byte with an ASCII
                   1396: transliteration of the intended character.
                   1397: .It Sy "skipping unknown macro"
                   1398: .Pq mdoc , man , roff
                   1399: The first identifier on a request or macro line is neither recognized as a
                   1400: .Xr roff 7
                   1401: request, nor as a user-defined macro, nor, respectively, as an
                   1402: .Xr mdoc 7
                   1403: or
                   1404: .Xr man 7
                   1405: macro.
                   1406: It may be mistyped or unsupported.
                   1407: The request or macro is discarded including its arguments.
1.133     schwarze 1408: .It Sy "skipping insecure request"
                   1409: .Pq roff
                   1410: An input file attempted to run a shell command
                   1411: or to read or write an external file.
                   1412: Such attempts are denied for security reasons.
1.106     schwarze 1413: .It Sy "skipping item outside list"
1.118     schwarze 1414: .Pq mdoc , eqn
1.106     schwarze 1415: An
                   1416: .Ic \&It
                   1417: macro occurs outside any
                   1418: .Ic \&Bl
1.118     schwarze 1419: list, or an
                   1420: .Xr eqn 7
                   1421: .Ic above
                   1422: delimiter occurs outside any pile.
1.106     schwarze 1423: It is discarded including its arguments.
                   1424: .It Sy "skipping column outside column list"
                   1425: .Pq mdoc
                   1426: A
                   1427: .Ic \&Ta
                   1428: macro occurs outside any
                   1429: .Ic \&Bl Fl column
                   1430: block.
                   1431: It is discarded including its arguments.
                   1432: .It Sy "skipping end of block that is not open"
                   1433: .Pq mdoc , man , eqn , tbl , roff
                   1434: Various syntax elements can only be used to explicitly close blocks
                   1435: that have previously been opened.
                   1436: An
                   1437: .Xr mdoc 7
                   1438: block closing macro, a
                   1439: .Xr man 7
                   1440: .Ic \&RE
                   1441: or
                   1442: .Ic \&UE
1.118     schwarze 1443: macro, an
                   1444: .Xr eqn 7
                   1445: right delimiter or closing brace, or the end of an equation, table, or
1.106     schwarze 1446: .Xr roff 7
                   1447: conditional request is encountered but no matching block is open.
                   1448: The offending request or macro is discarded.
1.135     schwarze 1449: .It Sy "fewer RS blocks open, skipping"
                   1450: .Pq man
                   1451: The
                   1452: .Ic \&RE
                   1453: macro is invoked with an argument, but less than the specified number of
                   1454: .Ic \&RS
                   1455: blocks is open.
                   1456: The
                   1457: .Ic \&RE
                   1458: macro is discarded.
1.106     schwarze 1459: .It Sy "inserting missing end of block"
                   1460: .Pq mdoc , tbl
                   1461: Various
                   1462: .Xr mdoc 7
                   1463: macros as well as tables require explicit closing by dedicated macros.
                   1464: A block that doesn't support bad nesting
                   1465: ends before all of its children are properly closed.
                   1466: The open child nodes are closed implicitly.
                   1467: .It Sy "scope open on exit"
                   1468: .Pq mdoc , man , eqn , tbl , roff
                   1469: At the end of the document, an explicit
                   1470: .Xr mdoc 7
                   1471: block, a
                   1472: .Xr man 7
                   1473: next-line scope or
                   1474: .Ic \&RS
                   1475: or
                   1476: .Ic \&UR
                   1477: block, an equation, table, or
                   1478: .Xr roff 7
                   1479: conditional or ignore block is still open.
                   1480: The open block is closed implicitly.
                   1481: .It Sy "escaped character not allowed in a name"
                   1482: .Pq roff
                   1483: Macro, string and register identifiers consist of printable,
                   1484: non-whitespace ASCII characters.
                   1485: Escape sequences and characters and strings expressed in terms of them
                   1486: cannot form part of a name.
                   1487: The first argument of an
                   1488: .Ic \&am ,
                   1489: .Ic \&as ,
                   1490: .Ic \&de ,
                   1491: .Ic \&ds ,
                   1492: .Ic \&nr ,
                   1493: or
                   1494: .Ic \&rr
                   1495: request, or any argument of an
                   1496: .Ic \&rm
                   1497: request, or the name of a request or user defined macro being called,
                   1498: is terminated by an escape sequence.
                   1499: In the cases of
                   1500: .Ic \&as ,
                   1501: .Ic \&ds ,
                   1502: and
                   1503: .Ic \&nr ,
                   1504: the request has no effect at all.
                   1505: In the cases of
                   1506: .Ic \&am ,
                   1507: .Ic \&de ,
                   1508: .Ic \&rr ,
                   1509: and
                   1510: .Ic \&rm ,
                   1511: what was parsed up to this point is used as the arguments to the request,
                   1512: and the rest of the input line is discarded including the escape sequence.
                   1513: When parsing for a request or a user-defined macro name to be called,
                   1514: only the escape sequence is discarded.
                   1515: The characters preceding it are used as the request or macro name,
                   1516: the characters following it are used as the arguments to the request or macro.
                   1517: .It Sy "argument count wrong"
                   1518: .Pq mdoc , man , roff
                   1519: The indicated request or macro has too few or too many arguments.
                   1520: The syntax tree will contain the wrong number of arguments as given.
                   1521: Formatting behaviour depends on the specific request or macro in question.
                   1522: Note that the same message may also occur as a WARNING, see above.
1.124     schwarze 1523: .It Sy "NOT IMPLEMENTED: Bd -file"
                   1524: .Pq mdoc
                   1525: For security reasons, the
                   1526: .Ic \&Bd
                   1527: macro does not support the
                   1528: .Fl file
                   1529: argument.
                   1530: By requesting the inclusion of a sensitive file, a malicious document
                   1531: might otherwise trick a privileged user into inadvertently displaying
                   1532: the file on the screen, revealing the file content to bystanders.
                   1533: The argument is ignored including the file name following it.
1.106     schwarze 1534: .It Sy "missing list type, using -item"
                   1535: .Pq mdoc
                   1536: A
                   1537: .Ic \&Bl
                   1538: macro fails to specify the list type.
                   1539: .It Sy "missing manual name, using \(dq\(dq"
                   1540: .Pq mdoc
                   1541: The first call to
                   1542: .Ic \&Nm
                   1543: lacks the required argument.
                   1544: .It Sy "uname(3) system call failed, using UNKNOWN"
                   1545: .Pq mdoc
                   1546: The
                   1547: .Ic \&Os
                   1548: macro is called without arguments, and the
                   1549: .Xr uname 3
                   1550: system call failed.
                   1551: As a workaround,
                   1552: .Nm
                   1553: can be compiled with
                   1554: .Sm off
                   1555: .Fl D Cm OSNAME=\(dq\e\(dq Ar string Cm \e\(dq\(dq .
                   1556: .Sm on
                   1557: .It Sy "unknown standard specifier"
                   1558: .Pq mdoc
                   1559: An
                   1560: .Ic \&St
                   1561: macro has an unknown argument and is discarded.
                   1562: .It Sy "skipping request without numeric argument"
1.118     schwarze 1563: .Pq roff , eqn
1.106     schwarze 1564: An
                   1565: .Ic \&it
1.118     schwarze 1566: request or an
                   1567: .Xr eqn 7
                   1568: .Ic \&size
                   1569: or
                   1570: .Ic \&gsize
                   1571: statement has a non-numeric or negative argument or no argument at all.
                   1572: The invalid request or statement is ignored.
1.132     schwarze 1573: .It Sy "NOT IMPLEMENTED: .so with absolute path or \(dq..\(dq"
                   1574: .Pq roff
                   1575: For security reasons,
                   1576: .Nm
                   1577: allows
                   1578: .Ic \&so
                   1579: file inclusion requests only with relative paths
                   1580: and only without ascending to any parent directory.
                   1581: By requesting the inclusion of a sensitive file, a malicious document
                   1582: might otherwise trick a privileged user into inadvertently displaying
                   1583: the file on the screen, revealing the file content to bystanders.
                   1584: .Nm
                   1585: only shows the path as it appears behind
                   1586: .Ic \&so .
                   1587: .It Sy ".so request failed"
                   1588: .Pq roff
                   1589: Servicing a
                   1590: .Ic \&so
                   1591: request requires reading an external file, but the file could not be
                   1592: opened.
                   1593: .Nm
                   1594: only shows the path as it appears behind
                   1595: .Ic \&so .
1.106     schwarze 1596: .It Sy "skipping all arguments"
                   1597: .Pq mdoc , man , eqn , roff
                   1598: An
                   1599: .Xr mdoc 7
                   1600: .Ic \&Bt ,
                   1601: .Ic \&Ed ,
                   1602: .Ic \&Ef ,
                   1603: .Ic \&Ek ,
                   1604: .Ic \&El ,
1.144   ! schwarze 1605: .Ic \&Lp ,
        !          1606: .Ic \&Pp ,
1.106     schwarze 1607: .Ic \&Re ,
1.143     schwarze 1608: .Ic \&Rs ,
1.106     schwarze 1609: or
                   1610: .Ic \&Ud
                   1611: macro, an
                   1612: .Ic \&It
                   1613: macro in a list that don't support item heads, a
                   1614: .Xr man 7
                   1615: .Ic \&LP ,
                   1616: .Ic \&P ,
                   1617: or
                   1618: .Ic \&PP
                   1619: macro, an
                   1620: .Xr eqn 7
1.120     schwarze 1621: .Ic \&EQ
                   1622: or
1.106     schwarze 1623: .Ic \&EN
                   1624: macro, or a
                   1625: .Xr roff 7
1.144   ! schwarze 1626: .Ic \&br
        !          1627: request or
1.106     schwarze 1628: .Sq \&..
                   1629: block closing request is invoked with at least one argument.
                   1630: All arguments are ignored.
                   1631: .It Sy "skipping excess arguments"
1.135     schwarze 1632: .Pq mdoc , man , roff
1.77      schwarze 1633: The
1.144   ! schwarze 1634: .Ic \&An
        !          1635: macro is invoked with another argument after
        !          1636: .Fl split
        !          1637: or
        !          1638: .Fl nosplit ,
        !          1639: the
1.106     schwarze 1640: .Ic \&Bf
1.144   ! schwarze 1641: macro or the
        !          1642: .Ic \&sp
        !          1643: request is invoked with more than one argument, the
1.135     schwarze 1644: .Ic \&RE
                   1645: macro is invoked with more than one argument
                   1646: or with a non-integer argument, or a request of the
1.106     schwarze 1647: .Ic \&de
                   1648: family is invoked with more than two arguments.
                   1649: The excess arguments are ignored.
1.133     schwarze 1650: .El
                   1651: .Ss Unsupported features
                   1652: .Bl -ohang
                   1653: .It Sy "input too large"
                   1654: .Pq mdoc , man
                   1655: Currently,
                   1656: .Nm
                   1657: cannot handle input files larger than its arbitrary size limit
                   1658: of 2^31 bytes (2 Gigabytes).
                   1659: Since useful manuals are always small, this is not a problem in practice.
                   1660: Parsing is aborted as soon as the condition is detected.
1.136     schwarze 1661: .It Sy "unsupported control character"
                   1662: .Pq roff
                   1663: An ASCII control character supported by other
                   1664: .Xr roff 7
                   1665: implementations but not by
                   1666: .Nm
                   1667: was found in an input file.
                   1668: It is replaced by a question mark.
1.133     schwarze 1669: .It Sy "unsupported roff request"
                   1670: .Pq roff
                   1671: An input file contains a
                   1672: .Xr roff 7
                   1673: request supported by GNU troff or Heirloom troff but not by
                   1674: .Nm ,
                   1675: and it is likely that this will cause information loss
                   1676: or considerable misformatting.
1.139     schwarze 1677: .It Sy "eqn delim option in tbl"
                   1678: .Pq eqn , tbl
                   1679: The options line of a table defines equation delimiters.
                   1680: Any equation source code contained in the table will be printed unformatted.
                   1681: .It Sy "unsupported table layout modifier"
1.138     schwarze 1682: .Pq tbl
                   1683: A table layout specification contains an
                   1684: .Sq Cm m
                   1685: modifier.
                   1686: The modifier is discarded.
1.133     schwarze 1687: .It Sy "ignoring macro in table"
1.139     schwarze 1688: .Pq tbl , mdoc , man
                   1689: A table contains an invocation of an
                   1690: .Xr mdoc 7
                   1691: or
                   1692: .Xr man 7
                   1693: macro or of an undefined macro.
                   1694: The macro is ignored, and its arguments are handled
                   1695: as if they were a text line.
1.106     schwarze 1696: .El
1.1       kristaps 1697: .Sh SEE ALSO
1.141     schwarze 1698: .Xr apropos 1 ,
                   1699: .Xr man 1 ,
1.85      kristaps 1700: .Xr eqn 7 ,
1.57      kristaps 1701: .Xr man 7 ,
1.13      kristaps 1702: .Xr mandoc_char 7 ,
1.84      kristaps 1703: .Xr mdoc 7 ,
                   1704: .Xr roff 7 ,
                   1705: .Xr tbl 7
1.1       kristaps 1706: .Sh AUTHORS
                   1707: The
                   1708: .Nm
1.26      kristaps 1709: utility was written by
1.141     schwarze 1710: .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv
                   1711: and is maintained by
                   1712: .An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .
                   1713: .Sh BUGS
1.39      kristaps 1714: In
1.141     schwarze 1715: .Fl T Ns Cm html ,
1.39      kristaps 1716: the maximum size of an element attribute is determined by
                   1717: .Dv BUFSIZ ,
1.57      kristaps 1718: which is usually 1024 bytes.
                   1719: Be aware of this when setting long link
1.58      kristaps 1720: formats such as
                   1721: .Fl O Ns Cm style Ns = Ns Ar really/long/link .

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