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1.183     schwarze   18: .Dd $Mdocdate: March 27 2017 $
1.14      kristaps   19: .Dt MANDOC 1
1.1       kristaps   20: .Os
                     21: .Sh NAME
                     22: .Nm mandoc
1.181     schwarze   23: .Nd format manual pages
1.1       kristaps   24: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     25: .Nm mandoc
1.184     schwarze   26: .Op Fl ac
1.156     schwarze   27: .Op Fl I Cm os Ns = Ns Ar name
                     28: .Op Fl K Ar encoding
1.180     schwarze   29: .Op Fl mdoc | man
1.184     schwarze   30: .Op Fl O Ar options
1.156     schwarze   31: .Op Fl T Ar output
                     32: .Op Fl W Ar level
1.89      kristaps   33: .Op Ar
1.1       kristaps   34: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     35: The
                     36: .Nm
1.26      kristaps   37: utility formats
1.8       kristaps   38: .Ux
1.57      kristaps   39: manual pages for display.
1.100     kristaps   40: .Pp
                     41: By default,
                     42: .Nm
                     43: reads
                     44: .Xr mdoc 7
                     45: or
                     46: .Xr man 7
1.180     schwarze   47: text from stdin and produces
1.156     schwarze   48: .Fl T Cm locale
1.100     kristaps   49: output.
                     50: .Pp
1.109     schwarze   51: The options are as follows:
1.19      kristaps   52: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.107     schwarze   53: .It Fl a
                     54: If the standard output is a terminal device and
                     55: .Fl c
                     56: is not specified, use
                     57: .Xr more 1
                     58: to paginate the output, just like
                     59: .Xr man 1
                     60: would.
                     61: .It Fl c
                     62: Copy the formatted manual pages to the standard output without using
                     63: .Xr more 1
                     64: to paginate them.
                     65: This is the default.
                     66: It can be specified to override
                     67: .Fl a .
1.156     schwarze   68: .It Fl I Cm os Ns = Ns Ar name
1.101     schwarze   69: Override the default operating system
                     70: .Ar name
                     71: for the
                     72: .Xr mdoc 7
1.180     schwarze   73: .Ic \&Os
1.130     schwarze   74: and for the
                     75: .Xr man 7
1.180     schwarze   76: .Ic \&TH
1.101     schwarze   77: macro.
1.156     schwarze   78: .It Fl K Ar encoding
1.119     schwarze   79: Specify the input encoding.
                     80: The supported
                     81: .Ar encoding
                     82: arguments are
                     83: .Cm us-ascii ,
                     84: .Cm iso-8859-1 ,
                     85: and
                     86: .Cm utf-8 .
1.176     schwarze   87: If not specified, autodetection uses the first match in the following
                     88: list:
                     89: .Bl -enum
                     90: .It
                     91: If the first three bytes of the input file are the UTF-8 byte order
                     92: mark (BOM, 0xefbbbf), input is interpreted as
                     93: .Cm utf-8 .
                     94: .It
                     95: If the first or second line of the input file matches the
1.119     schwarze   96: .Sy emacs
                     97: mode line format
                     98: .Pp
                     99: .D1 .\e" -*- Oo ...; Oc coding: Ar encoding ; No -*-
1.176     schwarze  100: .Pp
                    101: then input is interpreted according to
                    102: .Ar encoding .
                    103: .It
                    104: If the first non-ASCII byte in the file introduces a valid UTF-8
                    105: sequence, input is interpreted as
                    106: .Cm utf-8 .
                    107: .It
                    108: Otherwise, input is interpreted as
                    109: .Cm iso-8859-1 .
1.119     schwarze  110: .El
1.180     schwarze  111: .It Fl mdoc | man
                    112: With
                    113: .Fl mdoc ,
                    114: all input files are interpreted as
                    115: .Xr mdoc 7 .
                    116: With
                    117: .Fl man ,
                    118: all input files are interpreted as
                    119: .Xr man 7 .
                    120: By default, the input language is automatically detected for each file:
                    121: if the the first macro is
                    122: .Ic \&Dd
                    123: or
                    124: .Ic \&Dt ,
                    125: the
                    126: .Xr mdoc 7
                    127: parser is used; otherwise, the
                    128: .Xr man 7
                    129: parser is used.
                    130: With other arguments,
                    131: .Fl m
                    132: is silently ignored.
1.184     schwarze  133: .It Fl O Ar options
1.57      kristaps  134: Comma-separated output options.
1.156     schwarze  135: .It Fl T Ar output
1.57      kristaps  136: Output format.
                    137: See
1.1       kristaps  138: .Sx Output Formats
1.57      kristaps  139: for available formats.
                    140: Defaults to
1.156     schwarze  141: .Fl T Cm locale .
                    142: .It Fl W Ar level
1.77      schwarze  143: Specify the minimum message
                    144: .Ar level
                    145: to be reported on the standard error output and to affect the exit status.
                    146: The
                    147: .Ar level
                    148: can be
1.185   ! schwarze  149: .Cm style ,
1.133     schwarze  150: .Cm warning ,
                    151: .Cm error ,
1.77      schwarze  152: or
1.133     schwarze  153: .Cm unsupp ;
1.132     schwarze  154: .Cm all
1.77      schwarze  155: is an alias for
1.185   ! schwarze  156: .Cm style .
1.132     schwarze  157: By default,
                    158: .Nm
                    159: is silent.
1.77      schwarze  160: See
                    161: .Sx EXIT STATUS
                    162: and
                    163: .Sx DIAGNOSTICS
                    164: for details.
                    165: .Pp
                    166: The special option
1.156     schwarze  167: .Fl W Cm stop
1.77      schwarze  168: tells
                    169: .Nm
                    170: to exit after parsing a file that causes warnings or errors of at least
                    171: the requested level.
                    172: No formatted output will be produced from that file.
                    173: If both a
                    174: .Ar level
                    175: and
                    176: .Cm stop
                    177: are requested, they can be joined with a comma, for example
1.156     schwarze  178: .Fl W Cm error , Ns Cm stop .
1.58      kristaps  179: .It Ar file
                    180: Read input from zero or more files.
1.57      kristaps  181: If unspecified, reads from stdin.
                    182: If multiple files are specified,
1.2       kristaps  183: .Nm
                    184: will halt with the first failed parse.
1.1       kristaps  185: .El
1.109     schwarze  186: .Pp
1.183     schwarze  187: The options
                    188: .Fl fhklw
                    189: are also supported and are documented in man(1).
1.109     schwarze  190: In
                    191: .Fl f
                    192: and
                    193: .Fl k
                    194: mode,
                    195: .Nm
                    196: also supports the options
1.183     schwarze  197: .Fl CMmOSs
1.109     schwarze  198: described in the
                    199: .Xr apropos 1
                    200: manual.
1.182     schwarze  201: The options
                    202: .Fl fkl
                    203: are mutually exclusive and override each other.
1.1       kristaps  204: .Ss Output Formats
                    205: The
                    206: .Nm
                    207: utility accepts the following
                    208: .Fl T
1.66      kristaps  209: arguments, which correspond to output modes:
1.175     schwarze  210: .Bl -tag -width "-T markdown"
1.156     schwarze  211: .It Fl T Cm ascii
1.81      kristaps  212: Produce 7-bit ASCII output.
1.57      kristaps  213: See
1.48      kristaps  214: .Sx ASCII Output .
1.156     schwarze  215: .It Fl T Cm html
1.116     kristaps  216: Produce HTML5, CSS1, and MathML output.
1.57      kristaps  217: See
1.48      kristaps  218: .Sx HTML Output .
1.156     schwarze  219: .It Fl T Cm lint
1.58      kristaps  220: Parse only: produce no output.
                    221: Implies
1.156     schwarze  222: .Fl W Cm warning .
                    223: .It Fl T Cm locale
1.93      schwarze  224: Encode output using the current locale.
1.128     schwarze  225: This is the default.
1.93      schwarze  226: See
                    227: .Sx Locale Output .
1.156     schwarze  228: .It Fl T Cm man
1.95      kristaps  229: Produce
1.91      schwarze  230: .Xr man 7
1.95      kristaps  231: format output.
                    232: See
                    233: .Sx Man Output .
1.175     schwarze  234: .It Fl T Cm markdown
                    235: Produce output in
                    236: .Sy markdown
                    237: format.
                    238: See
                    239: .Sx Markdown Output .
1.156     schwarze  240: .It Fl T Cm pdf
1.73      kristaps  241: Produce PDF output.
                    242: See
                    243: .Sx PDF Output .
1.156     schwarze  244: .It Fl T Cm ps
1.62      kristaps  245: Produce PostScript output.
                    246: See
                    247: .Sx PostScript Output .
1.156     schwarze  248: .It Fl T Cm tree
1.58      kristaps  249: Produce an indented parse tree.
1.161     schwarze  250: See
                    251: .Sx Syntax tree output .
1.156     schwarze  252: .It Fl T Cm utf8
1.93      schwarze  253: Encode output in the UTF\-8 multi-byte format.
                    254: See
                    255: .Sx UTF\-8 Output .
1.156     schwarze  256: .It Fl T Cm xhtml
1.114     kristaps  257: This is a synonym for
1.156     schwarze  258: .Fl T Cm html .
1.1       kristaps  259: .El
1.13      kristaps  260: .Pp
                    261: If multiple input files are specified, these will be processed by the
                    262: corresponding filter in-order.
1.66      kristaps  263: .Ss ASCII Output
                    264: Output produced by
1.156     schwarze  265: .Fl T Cm ascii
1.128     schwarze  266: is rendered in standard 7-bit ASCII documented in
1.66      kristaps  267: .Xr ascii 7 .
                    268: .Pp
                    269: Font styles are applied by using back-spaced encoding such that an
                    270: underlined character
                    271: .Sq c
                    272: is rendered as
                    273: .Sq _ Ns \e[bs] Ns c ,
                    274: where
                    275: .Sq \e[bs]
                    276: is the back-space character number 8.
                    277: Emboldened characters are rendered as
                    278: .Sq c Ns \e[bs] Ns c .
                    279: .Pp
                    280: The special characters documented in
                    281: .Xr mandoc_char 7
                    282: are rendered best-effort in an ASCII equivalent.
                    283: .Pp
                    284: Output width is limited to 78 visible columns unless literal input lines
                    285: exceed this limit.
                    286: .Pp
                    287: The following
                    288: .Fl O
                    289: arguments are accepted:
1.19      kristaps  290: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.98      schwarze  291: .It Cm indent Ns = Ns Ar indent
                    292: The left margin for normal text is set to
                    293: .Ar indent
                    294: blank characters instead of the default of five for
                    295: .Xr mdoc 7
                    296: and seven for
                    297: .Xr man 7 .
                    298: Increasing this is not recommended; it may result in degraded formatting,
1.99      schwarze  299: for example overfull lines or ugly line breaks.
1.66      kristaps  300: .It Cm width Ns = Ns Ar width
                    301: The output width is set to
                    302: .Ar width ,
1.141     schwarze  303: which will normalise to \(>=58.
1.1       kristaps  304: .El
1.66      kristaps  305: .Ss HTML Output
                    306: Output produced by
1.156     schwarze  307: .Fl T Cm html
1.114     kristaps  308: conforms to HTML5 using optional self-closing tags.
1.116     kristaps  309: Default styles use only CSS1.
                    310: Equations rendered from
                    311: .Xr eqn 7
                    312: blocks use MathML.
1.66      kristaps  313: .Pp
1.61      kristaps  314: The
1.164     schwarze  315: .Pa mandoc.css
1.83      kristaps  316: file documents style-sheet classes available for customising output.
                    317: If a style-sheet is not specified with
1.156     schwarze  318: .Fl O Cm style ,
                    319: .Fl T Cm html
1.114     kristaps  320: defaults to simple output (via an embedded style-sheet)
                    321: readable in any graphical or text-based web
1.83      kristaps  322: browser.
1.66      kristaps  323: .Pp
1.89      kristaps  324: Special characters are rendered in decimal-encoded UTF\-8.
1.66      kristaps  325: .Pp
                    326: The following
1.64      kristaps  327: .Fl O
1.66      kristaps  328: arguments are accepted:
1.37      kristaps  329: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.94      kristaps  330: .It Cm fragment
1.123     schwarze  331: Omit the <!DOCTYPE> declaration and the <html>, <head>, and <body>
                    332: elements and only emit the subtree below the <body> element.
1.94      kristaps  333: The
                    334: .Cm style
1.97      schwarze  335: argument will be ignored.
1.94      kristaps  336: This is useful when embedding manual content within existing documents.
1.64      kristaps  337: .It Cm includes Ns = Ns Ar fmt
1.40      kristaps  338: The string
                    339: .Ar fmt ,
1.49      kristaps  340: for example,
1.40      kristaps  341: .Ar ../src/%I.html ,
                    342: is used as a template for linked header files (usually via the
1.180     schwarze  343: .Ic \&In
1.57      kristaps  344: macro).
                    345: Instances of
1.43      kristaps  346: .Sq \&%I
1.57      kristaps  347: are replaced with the include filename.
                    348: The default is not to present a
1.40      kristaps  349: hyperlink.
1.64      kristaps  350: .It Cm man Ns = Ns Ar fmt
1.39      kristaps  351: The string
                    352: .Ar fmt ,
1.49      kristaps  353: for example,
1.39      kristaps  354: .Ar ../html%S/%N.%S.html ,
                    355: is used as a template for linked manuals (usually via the
1.180     schwarze  356: .Ic \&Xr
1.57      kristaps  357: macro).
                    358: Instances of
1.43      kristaps  359: .Sq \&%N
1.40      kristaps  360: and
                    361: .Sq %S
                    362: are replaced with the linked manual's name and section, respectively.
1.57      kristaps  363: If no section is included, section 1 is assumed.
                    364: The default is not to
1.40      kristaps  365: present a hyperlink.
1.64      kristaps  366: .It Cm style Ns = Ns Ar style.css
1.58      kristaps  367: The file
                    368: .Ar style.css
                    369: is used for an external style-sheet.
                    370: This must be a valid absolute or
                    371: relative URI.
1.61      kristaps  372: .El
1.93      schwarze  373: .Ss Locale Output
                    374: Locale-depending output encoding is triggered with
1.156     schwarze  375: .Fl T Cm locale .
1.128     schwarze  376: This is the default.
                    377: .Pp
1.93      schwarze  378: This option is not available on all systems: systems without locale
                    379: support, or those whose internal representation is not natively UCS-4,
                    380: will fall back to
1.156     schwarze  381: .Fl T Cm ascii .
1.93      schwarze  382: See
                    383: .Sx ASCII Output
                    384: for font style specification and available command-line arguments.
1.95      kristaps  385: .Ss Man Output
                    386: Translate input format into
                    387: .Xr man 7
                    388: output format.
1.102     schwarze  389: This is useful for distributing manual sources to legacy systems
1.96      kristaps  390: lacking
1.95      kristaps  391: .Xr mdoc 7
                    392: formatters.
                    393: .Pp
                    394: If
                    395: .Xr mdoc 7
                    396: is passed as input, it is translated into
1.97      schwarze  397: .Xr man 7 .
                    398: If the input format is
1.95      kristaps  399: .Xr man 7 ,
1.97      schwarze  400: the input is copied to the output, expanding any
1.95      kristaps  401: .Xr roff 7
1.180     schwarze  402: .Ic so
1.97      schwarze  403: requests.
                    404: The parser is also run, and as usual, the
                    405: .Fl W
                    406: level controls which
                    407: .Sx DIAGNOSTICS
                    408: are displayed before copying the input to the output.
1.175     schwarze  409: .Ss Markdown Output
                    410: Translate
                    411: .Xr mdoc 7
                    412: input to the
                    413: .Sy markdown
                    414: format conforming to
                    415: .Lk http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text\
                    416:  "John Gruber's 2004 specification" .
1.178     schwarze  417: The output also almost conforms to the
                    418: .Lk http://commonmark.org/ CommonMark
                    419: specification.
                    420: .Pp
                    421: The character set used for the markdown output is ASCII.
                    422: Non-ASCII characters are encoded as HTML entities.
                    423: Since that is not possible in literal font contexts, because these
                    424: are rendered as code spans and code blocks in the markdown output,
                    425: non-ASCII characters are transliterated to ASCII approximations in
                    426: these contexts.
1.175     schwarze  427: .Pp
                    428: Markdown is a very weak markup language, so all semantic markup is
                    429: lost, and even part of the presentational markup may be lost.
                    430: Do not use this as an intermediate step in converting to HTML;
                    431: instead, use
                    432: .Fl T Cm html
                    433: directly.
                    434: .Pp
                    435: The
                    436: .Xr man 7 ,
                    437: .Xr tbl 7 ,
                    438: and
                    439: .Xr eqn 7
                    440: input languages are not supported by
                    441: .Fl T Cm markdown
                    442: output mode.
1.93      schwarze  443: .Ss PDF Output
                    444: PDF-1.1 output may be generated by
1.156     schwarze  445: .Fl T Cm pdf .
1.93      schwarze  446: See
                    447: .Sx PostScript Output
                    448: for
                    449: .Fl O
                    450: arguments and defaults.
1.62      kristaps  451: .Ss PostScript Output
1.65      kristaps  452: PostScript
                    453: .Qq Adobe-3.0
                    454: Level-2 pages may be generated by
1.156     schwarze  455: .Fl T Cm ps .
1.67      kristaps  456: Output pages default to letter sized and are rendered in the Times font
1.70      kristaps  457: family, 11-point.
                    458: Margins are calculated as 1/9 the page length and width.
1.71      kristaps  459: Line-height is 1.4m.
1.66      kristaps  460: .Pp
                    461: Special characters are rendered as in
                    462: .Sx ASCII Output .
                    463: .Pp
                    464: The following
                    465: .Fl O
                    466: arguments are accepted:
                    467: .Bl -tag -width Ds
                    468: .It Cm paper Ns = Ns Ar name
                    469: The paper size
                    470: .Ar name
                    471: may be one of
1.68      kristaps  472: .Ar a3 ,
                    473: .Ar a4 ,
                    474: .Ar a5 ,
                    475: .Ar legal ,
1.66      kristaps  476: or
                    477: .Ar letter .
1.68      kristaps  478: You may also manually specify dimensions as
                    479: .Ar NNxNN ,
                    480: width by height in millimetres.
                    481: If an unknown value is encountered,
                    482: .Ar letter
                    483: is used.
1.66      kristaps  484: .El
1.93      schwarze  485: .Ss UTF\-8 Output
                    486: Use
1.156     schwarze  487: .Fl T Cm utf8
1.93      schwarze  488: to force a UTF\-8 locale.
1.73      kristaps  489: See
1.93      schwarze  490: .Sx Locale Output
                    491: for details and options.
1.161     schwarze  492: .Ss Syntax tree output
                    493: Use
                    494: .Fl T Cm tree
                    495: to show a human readable representation of the syntax tree.
                    496: It is useful for debugging the source code of manual pages.
1.162     schwarze  497: The exact format is subject to change, so don't write parsers for it.
1.170     schwarze  498: .Pp
                    499: The first paragraph shows meta data found in the
                    500: .Xr mdoc 7
                    501: prologue, on the
                    502: .Xr man 7
                    503: .Ic \&TH
                    504: line, or the fallbacks used.
                    505: .Pp
                    506: In the tree dump, each output line shows one syntax tree node.
1.161     schwarze  507: Child nodes are indented with respect to their parent node.
                    508: The columns are:
                    509: .Pp
                    510: .Bl -enum -compact
                    511: .It
                    512: For macro nodes, the macro name; for text and
                    513: .Xr tbl 7
1.162     schwarze  514: nodes, the content.
                    515: There is a special format for
1.161     schwarze  516: .Xr eqn 7
                    517: nodes.
                    518: .It
                    519: Node type (text, elem, block, head, body, body-end, tail, tbl, eqn).
                    520: .It
                    521: Flags:
                    522: .Bl -dash -compact
                    523: .It
                    524: An opening parenthesis if the node is an opening delimiter.
                    525: .It
                    526: An asterisk if the node starts a new input line.
                    527: .It
                    528: The input line number (starting at one).
                    529: .It
                    530: A colon.
                    531: .It
                    532: The input column number (starting at one).
                    533: .It
                    534: A closing parenthesis if the node is a closing delimiter.
                    535: .It
                    536: A full stop if the node ends a sentence.
1.169     schwarze  537: .It
1.174     schwarze  538: BROKEN if the node is a block broken by another block.
                    539: .It
1.169     schwarze  540: NOSRC if the node is not in the input file,
                    541: but automatically generated from macros.
                    542: .It
                    543: NOPRT if the node is not supposed to generate output
                    544: for any output format.
1.161     schwarze  545: .El
1.174     schwarze  546: .El
                    547: .Pp
                    548: The following
                    549: .Fl O
                    550: argument is accepted:
                    551: .Bl -tag -width Ds
                    552: .It Cm noval
                    553: Skip validation and show the unvalidated syntax tree.
                    554: This can help to find out whether a given behaviour is caused by
                    555: the parser or by the validator.
                    556: Meta data is not available in this case.
1.161     schwarze  557: .El
1.108     schwarze  558: .Sh ENVIRONMENT
                    559: .Bl -tag -width MANPAGER
                    560: .It Ev MANPAGER
                    561: Any non-empty value of the environment variable
                    562: .Ev MANPAGER
1.179     schwarze  563: is used instead of the standard pagination program,
                    564: .Xr more 1 ;
                    565: see
                    566: .Xr man 1
                    567: for details.
                    568: Only used if
                    569: .Fl a
                    570: or
                    571: .Fl l
                    572: is specified.
1.108     schwarze  573: .It Ev PAGER
                    574: Specifies the pagination program to use when
                    575: .Ev MANPAGER
                    576: is not defined.
                    577: If neither PAGER nor MANPAGER is defined,
1.159     schwarze  578: .Xr more 1
                    579: .Fl s
1.179     schwarze  580: is used.
                    581: Only used if
                    582: .Fl a
                    583: or
                    584: .Fl l
                    585: is specified.
1.108     schwarze  586: .El
1.77      schwarze  587: .Sh EXIT STATUS
                    588: The
                    589: .Nm
                    590: utility exits with one of the following values, controlled by the message
                    591: .Ar level
                    592: associated with the
                    593: .Fl W
                    594: option:
                    595: .Pp
                    596: .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
                    597: .It 0
1.185   ! schwarze  598: No style suggestions, warnings or errors occurred, or those that
        !           599: did were ignored because they were lower than the requested
1.77      schwarze  600: .Ar level .
1.185   ! schwarze  601: .It 1
        !           602: At least one style suggestion occurred, but no warning or error, and
        !           603: .Fl W Cm style
        !           604: was specified.
1.77      schwarze  605: .It 2
                    606: At least one warning occurred, but no error, and
1.156     schwarze  607: .Fl W Cm warning
1.185   ! schwarze  608: or
        !           609: .Fl W Cm style
1.77      schwarze  610: was specified.
                    611: .It 3
1.133     schwarze  612: At least one parsing error occurred,
                    613: but no unsupported feature was encountered, and
1.156     schwarze  614: .Fl W Cm error
1.185   ! schwarze  615: or a lower
        !           616: .Ar level
        !           617: was requested.
1.133     schwarze  618: .It 4
1.134     schwarze  619: At least one unsupported feature was encountered, and
1.185   ! schwarze  620: .Fl W Cm unsupp
        !           621: or a lower
        !           622: .Ar level
        !           623: was requested.
1.77      schwarze  624: .It 5
                    625: Invalid command line arguments were specified.
                    626: No input files have been read.
                    627: .It 6
1.131     schwarze  628: An operating system error occurred, for example exhaustion
                    629: of memory, file descriptors, or process table entries.
1.77      schwarze  630: Such errors cause
                    631: .Nm
                    632: to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or formatting a file.
                    633: .El
                    634: .Pp
                    635: Note that selecting
1.156     schwarze  636: .Fl T Cm lint
1.77      schwarze  637: output mode implies
1.156     schwarze  638: .Fl W Cm warning .
1.1       kristaps  639: .Sh EXAMPLES
1.13      kristaps  640: To page manuals to the terminal:
1.1       kristaps  641: .Pp
1.156     schwarze  642: .Dl $ mandoc \-W all,stop mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less
1.82      kristaps  643: .Dl $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less
1.28      kristaps  644: .Pp
1.41      kristaps  645: To produce HTML manuals with
1.164     schwarze  646: .Pa mandoc.css
1.41      kristaps  647: as the style-sheet:
1.38      kristaps  648: .Pp
1.164     schwarze  649: .Dl $ mandoc \-T html -O style=mandoc.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html
1.38      kristaps  650: .Pp
1.28      kristaps  651: To check over a large set of manuals:
                    652: .Pp
1.158     schwarze  653: .Dl $ mandoc \-T lint \(gafind /usr/src -name \e*\e.[1-9]\(ga
1.66      kristaps  654: .Pp
                    655: To produce a series of PostScript manuals for A4 paper:
                    656: .Pp
1.156     schwarze  657: .Dl $ mandoc \-T ps \-O paper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps
1.91      schwarze  658: .Pp
                    659: Convert a modern
                    660: .Xr mdoc 7
                    661: manual to the older
                    662: .Xr man 7
                    663: format, for use on systems lacking an
                    664: .Xr mdoc 7
                    665: parser:
                    666: .Pp
1.156     schwarze  667: .Dl $ mandoc \-T man foo.mdoc \*(Gt foo.man
1.77      schwarze  668: .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
1.106     schwarze  669: Messages displayed by
                    670: .Nm
                    671: follow this format:
1.77      schwarze  672: .Pp
1.106     schwarze  673: .D1 Nm Ns : Ar file : Ns Ar line : Ns Ar column : level : message : macro args
1.77      schwarze  674: .Pp
1.106     schwarze  675: Line and column numbers start at 1.
                    676: Both are omitted for messages referring to an input file as a whole.
                    677: Macro names and arguments are omitted where meaningless.
                    678: Fatal messages about invalid command line arguments
                    679: or operating system errors, for example when memory is exhausted,
                    680: may also omit the
                    681: .Ar file
1.104     schwarze  682: and
1.106     schwarze  683: .Ar level
                    684: fields.
1.104     schwarze  685: .Pp
1.77      schwarze  686: Message levels have the following meanings:
                    687: .Bl -tag -width "warning"
1.133     schwarze  688: .It Cm unsupp
                    689: An input file uses unsupported low-level
                    690: .Xr roff 7
                    691: features.
                    692: The output may be incomplete and/or misformatted,
                    693: so using GNU troff instead of
                    694: .Nm
                    695: to process the file may be preferable.
1.77      schwarze  696: .It Cm error
1.133     schwarze  697: An input file contains invalid syntax that cannot be safely interpreted.
1.77      schwarze  698: By discarding part of the input or inserting missing tokens,
                    699: the parser is able to continue, and the error does not prevent
                    700: generation of formatted output, but typically, preparing that
                    701: output involves information loss, broken document structure
1.133     schwarze  702: or unintended formatting, no matter whether
                    703: .Nm
                    704: or GNU troff is used.
                    705: In many cases, the output of
                    706: .Nm
                    707: and GNU troff is identical, but in some,
                    708: .Nm
                    709: is more resilient than GNU troff with respect to malformed input.
1.131     schwarze  710: .Pp
                    711: Non-existent or unreadable input files are also reported on the
                    712: .Cm error
                    713: level.
                    714: In that case, the parser cannot even be started and no output
                    715: is produced from those input files.
1.77      schwarze  716: .It Cm warning
                    717: An input file uses obsolete, discouraged or non-portable syntax.
                    718: All the same, the meaning of the input is unambiguous and a correct
                    719: rendering can be produced.
                    720: Documents causing warnings may render poorly when using other
                    721: formatting tools instead of
                    722: .Nm .
1.185   ! schwarze  723: .It Cm style
        !           724: An input file uses dubious or discouraged style.
        !           725: This is not a complaint about the syntax, and probably neither
        !           726: formatting nor portability are in danger.
        !           727: While great care is taken to avoid false positives on the higher
        !           728: message levels, the
        !           729: .Cm style
        !           730: level tries to reduce the probability that issues go unnoticed,
        !           731: so it may occasionally issue bogus suggestions.
        !           732: Please use your good judgement to decide whether any particular
        !           733: .Cm style
        !           734: suggestion really justifies a change to the input file.
1.77      schwarze  735: .El
                    736: .Pp
                    737: Messages of the
1.185   ! schwarze  738: .Cm style ,
1.133     schwarze  739: .Cm warning ,
                    740: .Cm error ,
1.77      schwarze  741: and
1.133     schwarze  742: .Cm unsupp
1.131     schwarze  743: levels except those about non-existent or unreadable input files
                    744: are hidden unless their level, or a lower level, is requested using a
1.77      schwarze  745: .Fl W
                    746: option or
1.156     schwarze  747: .Fl T Cm lint
1.77      schwarze  748: output mode.
1.106     schwarze  749: .Ss Warnings related to the document prologue
                    750: .Bl -ohang
                    751: .It Sy "missing manual title, using UNTITLED"
                    752: .Pq mdoc
                    753: A
                    754: .Ic \&Dt
                    755: macro has no arguments, or there is no
                    756: .Ic \&Dt
                    757: macro before the first non-prologue macro.
                    758: .It Sy "missing manual title, using \(dq\(dq"
                    759: .Pq man
                    760: There is no
                    761: .Ic \&TH
                    762: macro, or it has no arguments.
                    763: .It Sy "lower case character in document title"
                    764: .Pq mdoc , man
                    765: The title is still used as given in the
                    766: .Ic \&Dt
                    767: or
                    768: .Ic \&TH
                    769: macro.
                    770: .It Sy "missing manual section, using \(dq\(dq"
                    771: .Pq mdoc , man
                    772: A
                    773: .Ic \&Dt
                    774: or
                    775: .Ic \&TH
                    776: macro lacks the mandatory section argument.
                    777: .It Sy "unknown manual section"
                    778: .Pq mdoc
                    779: The section number in a
                    780: .Ic \&Dt
                    781: line is invalid, but still used.
                    782: .It Sy "missing date, using today's date"
                    783: .Pq mdoc, man
                    784: The document was parsed as
                    785: .Xr mdoc 7
                    786: and it has no
                    787: .Ic \&Dd
                    788: macro, or the
                    789: .Ic \&Dd
                    790: macro has no arguments or only empty arguments;
                    791: or the document was parsed as
                    792: .Xr man 7
                    793: and it has no
                    794: .Ic \&TH
                    795: macro, or the
                    796: .Ic \&TH
                    797: macro has less than three arguments or its third argument is empty.
                    798: .It Sy "cannot parse date, using it verbatim"
                    799: .Pq mdoc , man
                    800: The date given in a
                    801: .Ic \&Dd
                    802: or
                    803: .Ic \&TH
                    804: macro does not follow the conventional format.
                    805: .It Sy "missing Os macro, using \(dq\(dq"
                    806: .Pq mdoc
                    807: The default or current system is not shown in this case.
                    808: .It Sy "duplicate prologue macro"
                    809: .Pq mdoc
                    810: One of the prologue macros occurs more than once.
                    811: The last instance overrides all previous ones.
                    812: .It Sy "late prologue macro"
                    813: .Pq mdoc
                    814: A
                    815: .Ic \&Dd
                    816: or
                    817: .Ic \&Os
                    818: macro occurs after some non-prologue macro, but still takes effect.
                    819: .It Sy "skipping late title macro"
                    820: .Pq mdoc
                    821: The
                    822: .Ic \&Dt
1.152     schwarze  823: macro appears after the first non-prologue macro.
                    824: Traditional formatters cannot handle this because
                    825: they write the page header before parsing the document body.
1.106     schwarze  826: Even though this technical restriction does not apply to
                    827: .Nm ,
                    828: traditional semantics is preserved.
                    829: The late macro is discarded including its arguments.
                    830: .It Sy "prologue macros out of order"
                    831: .Pq mdoc
                    832: The prologue macros are not given in the conventional order
                    833: .Ic \&Dd ,
                    834: .Ic \&Dt ,
                    835: .Ic \&Os .
                    836: All three macros are used even when given in another order.
                    837: .El
                    838: .Ss Warnings regarding document structure
                    839: .Bl -ohang
                    840: .It Sy ".so is fragile, better use ln(1)"
                    841: .Pq roff
                    842: Including files only works when the parser program runs with the correct
                    843: current working directory.
                    844: .It Sy "no document body"
                    845: .Pq mdoc , man
                    846: The document body contains neither text nor macros.
                    847: An empty document is shown, consisting only of a header and a footer line.
                    848: .It Sy "content before first section header"
                    849: .Pq mdoc , man
                    850: Some macros or text precede the first
                    851: .Ic \&Sh
                    852: or
                    853: .Ic \&SH
                    854: section header.
                    855: The offending macros and text are parsed and added to the top level
                    856: of the syntax tree, outside any section block.
                    857: .It Sy "first section is not NAME"
                    858: .Pq mdoc
                    859: The argument of the first
                    860: .Ic \&Sh
                    861: macro is not
                    862: .Sq NAME .
                    863: This may confuse
                    864: .Xr makewhatis 8
                    865: and
                    866: .Xr apropos 1 .
1.168     schwarze  867: .It Sy "NAME section without Nm before Nd"
1.106     schwarze  868: .Pq mdoc
1.155     schwarze  869: The NAME section does not contain any
                    870: .Ic \&Nm
1.168     schwarze  871: child macro before the first
                    872: .Ic \&Nd
                    873: macro.
1.155     schwarze  874: .It Sy "NAME section without description"
                    875: .Pq mdoc
                    876: The NAME section lacks the mandatory
                    877: .Ic \&Nd
                    878: child macro.
                    879: .It Sy "description not at the end of NAME"
                    880: .Pq mdoc
                    881: The NAME section does contain an
1.106     schwarze  882: .Ic \&Nd
1.155     schwarze  883: child macro, but other content follows it.
                    884: .It Sy "bad NAME section content"
                    885: .Pq mdoc
                    886: The NAME section contains plain text or macros other than
                    887: .Ic \&Nm
1.106     schwarze  888: and
1.155     schwarze  889: .Ic \&Nd .
1.168     schwarze  890: .It Sy "missing comma before name"
                    891: .Pq mdoc
                    892: The NAME section contains an
                    893: .Ic \&Nm
                    894: macro that is neither the first one nor preceded by a comma.
1.142     schwarze  895: .It Sy "missing description line, using \(dq\(dq"
                    896: .Pq mdoc
                    897: The
                    898: .Ic \&Nd
                    899: macro lacks the required argument.
                    900: The title line of the manual will end after the dash.
1.177     schwarze  901: .It Sy "description line outside NAME section"
                    902: .Pq mdoc
                    903: An
                    904: .Ic \&Nd
                    905: macro appears outside the NAME section.
                    906: The arguments are printed anyway and the following text is used for
                    907: .Xr apropos 1 ,
                    908: but none of that behaviour is portable.
1.106     schwarze  909: .It Sy "sections out of conventional order"
                    910: .Pq mdoc
                    911: A standard section occurs after another section it usually precedes.
                    912: All section titles are used as given,
                    913: and the order of sections is not changed.
                    914: .It Sy "duplicate section title"
                    915: .Pq mdoc
                    916: The same standard section title occurs more than once.
                    917: .It Sy "unexpected section"
                    918: .Pq mdoc
                    919: A standard section header occurs in a section of the manual
                    920: where it normally isn't useful.
1.112     schwarze  921: .It Sy "unusual Xr order"
                    922: .Pq mdoc
                    923: In the SEE ALSO section, an
                    924: .Ic \&Xr
                    925: macro with a lower section number follows one with a higher number,
                    926: or two
                    927: .Ic \&Xr
1.157     schwarze  928: macros referring to the same section are out of alphabetical order.
1.112     schwarze  929: .It Sy "unusual Xr punctuation"
                    930: .Pq mdoc
                    931: In the SEE ALSO section, punctuation between two
                    932: .Ic \&Xr
                    933: macros differs from a single comma, or there is trailing punctuation
                    934: after the last
                    935: .Ic \&Xr
                    936: macro.
1.111     schwarze  937: .It Sy "AUTHORS section without An macro"
                    938: .Pq mdoc
                    939: An AUTHORS sections contains no
                    940: .Ic \&An
                    941: macros, or only empty ones.
                    942: Probably, there are author names lacking markup.
1.106     schwarze  943: .El
                    944: .Ss "Warnings related to macros and nesting"
                    945: .Bl -ohang
                    946: .It Sy "obsolete macro"
                    947: .Pq mdoc
                    948: See the
                    949: .Xr mdoc 7
                    950: manual for replacements.
1.126     schwarze  951: .It Sy "macro neither callable nor escaped"
                    952: .Pq mdoc
                    953: The name of a macro that is not callable appears on a macro line.
                    954: It is printed verbatim.
1.152     schwarze  955: If the intention is to call it, move it to its own input line;
1.126     schwarze  956: otherwise, escape it by prepending
                    957: .Sq \e& .
1.106     schwarze  958: .It Sy "skipping paragraph macro"
                    959: In
                    960: .Xr mdoc 7
                    961: documents, this happens
                    962: .Bl -dash -compact
                    963: .It
                    964: at the beginning and end of sections and subsections
                    965: .It
                    966: right before non-compact lists and displays
                    967: .It
                    968: at the end of items in non-column, non-compact lists
                    969: .It
                    970: and for multiple consecutive paragraph macros.
                    971: .El
                    972: In
                    973: .Xr man 7
                    974: documents, it happens
                    975: .Bl -dash -compact
                    976: .It
                    977: for empty
                    978: .Ic \&P ,
                    979: .Ic \&PP ,
                    980: and
                    981: .Ic \&LP
                    982: macros
                    983: .It
                    984: for
                    985: .Ic \&IP
                    986: macros having neither head nor body arguments
                    987: .It
                    988: for
                    989: .Ic \&br
                    990: or
                    991: .Ic \&sp
                    992: right after
                    993: .Ic \&SH
                    994: or
                    995: .Ic \&SS
                    996: .El
                    997: .It Sy "moving paragraph macro out of list"
                    998: .Pq mdoc
                    999: A list item in a
                   1000: .Ic \&Bl
                   1001: list contains a trailing paragraph macro.
                   1002: The paragraph macro is moved after the end of the list.
                   1003: .It Sy "skipping no-space macro"
                   1004: .Pq mdoc
                   1005: An input line begins with an
                   1006: .Ic \&Ns
                   1007: macro.
                   1008: The macro is ignored.
                   1009: .It Sy "blocks badly nested"
                   1010: .Pq mdoc
                   1011: If two blocks intersect, one should completely contain the other.
                   1012: Otherwise, rendered output is likely to look strange in any output
                   1013: format, and rendering in SGML-based output formats is likely to be
                   1014: outright wrong because such languages do not support badly nested
                   1015: blocks at all.
                   1016: Typical examples of badly nested blocks are
                   1017: .Qq Ic \&Ao \&Bo \&Ac \&Bc
                   1018: and
                   1019: .Qq Ic \&Ao \&Bq \&Ac .
                   1020: In these examples,
                   1021: .Ic \&Ac
                   1022: breaks
                   1023: .Ic \&Bo
                   1024: and
                   1025: .Ic \&Bq ,
                   1026: respectively.
                   1027: .It Sy "nested displays are not portable"
                   1028: .Pq mdoc
                   1029: A
                   1030: .Ic \&Bd ,
                   1031: .Ic \&D1 ,
                   1032: or
                   1033: .Ic \&Dl
                   1034: display occurs nested inside another
                   1035: .Ic \&Bd
                   1036: display.
                   1037: This works with
                   1038: .Nm ,
                   1039: but fails with most other implementations.
                   1040: .It Sy "moving content out of list"
                   1041: .Pq mdoc
                   1042: A
                   1043: .Ic \&Bl
                   1044: list block contains text or macros before the first
                   1045: .Ic \&It
                   1046: macro.
                   1047: The offending children are moved before the beginning of the list.
                   1048: .It Sy "fill mode already enabled, skipping"
                   1049: .Pq man
                   1050: A
                   1051: .Ic \&fi
                   1052: request occurs even though the document is still in fill mode,
                   1053: or already switched back to fill mode.
                   1054: It has no effect.
                   1055: .It Sy "fill mode already disabled, skipping"
                   1056: .Pq man
                   1057: An
                   1058: .Ic \&nf
                   1059: request occurs even though the document already switched to no-fill mode
                   1060: and did not switch back to fill mode yet.
                   1061: It has no effect.
                   1062: .It Sy "line scope broken"
                   1063: .Pq man
                   1064: While parsing the next-line scope of the previous macro,
                   1065: another macro is found that prematurely terminates the previous one.
                   1066: The previous, interrupted macro is deleted from the parse tree.
                   1067: .El
                   1068: .Ss "Warnings related to missing arguments"
                   1069: .Bl -ohang
                   1070: .It Sy "skipping empty request"
1.118     schwarze 1071: .Pq roff , eqn
                   1072: The macro name is missing from a macro definition request,
                   1073: or an
                   1074: .Xr eqn 7
                   1075: control statement or operation keyword lacks its required argument.
1.106     schwarze 1076: .It Sy "conditional request controls empty scope"
                   1077: .Pq roff
                   1078: A conditional request is only useful if any of the following
                   1079: follows it on the same logical input line:
                   1080: .Bl -dash -compact
                   1081: .It
                   1082: The
                   1083: .Sq \e{
                   1084: keyword to open a multi-line scope.
                   1085: .It
                   1086: A request or macro or some text, resulting in a single-line scope.
                   1087: .It
                   1088: The immediate end of the logical line without any intervening whitespace,
                   1089: resulting in next-line scope.
                   1090: .El
                   1091: Here, a conditional request is followed by trailing whitespace only,
                   1092: and there is no other content on its logical input line.
                   1093: Note that it doesn't matter whether the logical input line is split
                   1094: across multiple physical input lines using
                   1095: .Sq \e
                   1096: line continuation characters.
                   1097: This is one of the rare cases
                   1098: where trailing whitespace is syntactically significant.
                   1099: The conditional request controls a scope containing whitespace only,
                   1100: so it is unlikely to have a significant effect,
                   1101: except that it may control a following
                   1102: .Ic \&el
                   1103: clause.
                   1104: .It Sy "skipping empty macro"
                   1105: .Pq mdoc
1.147     schwarze 1106: The indicated macro has no arguments and hence no effect.
                   1107: .It Sy "empty block"
                   1108: .Pq mdoc , man
                   1109: A
                   1110: .Ic \&Bd ,
                   1111: .Ic \&Bk ,
                   1112: .Ic \&Bl ,
                   1113: .Ic \&D1 ,
                   1114: .Ic \&Dl ,
                   1115: .Ic \&RS ,
                   1116: or
                   1117: .Ic \&UR
                   1118: block contains nothing in its body and will produce no output.
1.106     schwarze 1119: .It Sy "empty argument, using 0n"
                   1120: .Pq mdoc
                   1121: The required width is missing after
                   1122: .Ic \&Bd
                   1123: or
                   1124: .Ic \&Bl
                   1125: .Fl offset
                   1126: or
                   1127: .Fl width.
                   1128: .It Sy "missing display type, using -ragged"
                   1129: .Pq mdoc
                   1130: The
                   1131: .Ic \&Bd
                   1132: macro is invoked without the required display type.
                   1133: .It Sy "list type is not the first argument"
                   1134: .Pq mdoc
                   1135: In a
                   1136: .Ic \&Bl
                   1137: macro, at least one other argument precedes the type argument.
                   1138: The
                   1139: .Nm
                   1140: utility copes with any argument order, but some other
                   1141: .Xr mdoc 7
                   1142: implementations do not.
                   1143: .It Sy "missing -width in -tag list, using 8n"
                   1144: .Pq mdoc
                   1145: Every
                   1146: .Ic \&Bl
                   1147: macro having the
                   1148: .Fl tag
                   1149: argument requires
                   1150: .Fl width ,
                   1151: too.
                   1152: .It Sy "missing utility name, using \(dq\(dq"
                   1153: .Pq mdoc
                   1154: The
                   1155: .Ic \&Ex Fl std
                   1156: macro is called without an argument before
                   1157: .Ic \&Nm
                   1158: has first been called with an argument.
1.146     schwarze 1159: .It Sy "missing function name, using \(dq\(dq"
                   1160: .Pq mdoc
                   1161: The
                   1162: .Ic \&Fo
                   1163: macro is called without an argument.
                   1164: No function name is printed.
1.106     schwarze 1165: .It Sy "empty head in list item"
                   1166: .Pq mdoc
                   1167: In a
                   1168: .Ic \&Bl
                   1169: .Fl diag ,
                   1170: .Fl hang ,
                   1171: .Fl inset ,
                   1172: .Fl ohang ,
                   1173: or
                   1174: .Fl tag
                   1175: list, an
                   1176: .Ic \&It
                   1177: macro lacks the required argument.
                   1178: The item head is left empty.
                   1179: .It Sy "empty list item"
                   1180: .Pq mdoc
                   1181: In a
                   1182: .Ic \&Bl
                   1183: .Fl bullet ,
                   1184: .Fl dash ,
                   1185: .Fl enum ,
                   1186: or
                   1187: .Fl hyphen
                   1188: list, an
                   1189: .Ic \&It
                   1190: block is empty.
                   1191: An empty list item is shown.
1.152     schwarze 1192: .It Sy "missing font type, using \efR"
1.106     schwarze 1193: .Pq mdoc
                   1194: A
                   1195: .Ic \&Bf
                   1196: macro has no argument.
1.152     schwarze 1197: It switches to the default font.
                   1198: .It Sy "unknown font type, using \efR"
1.106     schwarze 1199: .Pq mdoc
                   1200: The
                   1201: .Ic \&Bf
                   1202: argument is invalid.
1.152     schwarze 1203: The default font is used instead.
1.127     schwarze 1204: .It Sy "nothing follows prefix"
                   1205: .Pq mdoc
                   1206: A
                   1207: .Ic \&Pf
                   1208: macro has no argument, or only one argument and no macro follows
                   1209: on the same input line.
                   1210: This defeats its purpose; in particular, spacing is not suppressed
                   1211: before the text or macros following on the next input line.
1.143     schwarze 1212: .It Sy "empty reference block"
                   1213: .Pq mdoc
                   1214: An
                   1215: .Ic \&Rs
                   1216: macro is immediately followed by an
                   1217: .Ic \&Re
                   1218: macro on the next input line.
                   1219: Such an empty block does not produce any output.
1.165     schwarze 1220: .It Sy "missing section argument"
                   1221: .Pq mdoc
                   1222: An
                   1223: .Ic \&Xr
                   1224: macro lacks its second, section number argument.
                   1225: The first argument, i.e. the name, is printed, but without subsequent
1.166     schwarze 1226: parentheses.
1.106     schwarze 1227: .It Sy "missing -std argument, adding it"
                   1228: .Pq mdoc
                   1229: An
                   1230: .Ic \&Ex
                   1231: or
                   1232: .Ic \&Rv
                   1233: macro lacks the required
                   1234: .Fl std
                   1235: argument.
                   1236: The
                   1237: .Nm
                   1238: utility assumes
                   1239: .Fl std
                   1240: even when it is not specified, but other implementations may not.
1.150     schwarze 1241: .It Sy "missing option string, using \(dq\(dq"
                   1242: .Pq man
                   1243: The
                   1244: .Ic \&OP
                   1245: macro is invoked without any argument.
                   1246: An empty pair of square brackets is shown.
                   1247: .It Sy "missing resource identifier, using \(dq\(dq"
                   1248: .Pq man
                   1249: The
                   1250: .Ic \&UR
                   1251: macro is invoked without any argument.
                   1252: An empty pair of angle brackets is shown.
1.118     schwarze 1253: .It Sy "missing eqn box, using \(dq\(dq"
                   1254: .Pq eqn
                   1255: A diacritic mark or a binary operator is found,
                   1256: but there is nothing to the left of it.
                   1257: An empty box is inserted.
1.106     schwarze 1258: .El
                   1259: .Ss "Warnings related to bad macro arguments"
                   1260: .Bl -ohang
                   1261: .It Sy "unterminated quoted argument"
                   1262: .Pq roff
                   1263: Macro arguments can be enclosed in double quote characters
                   1264: such that space characters and macro names contained in the quoted
                   1265: argument need not be escaped.
                   1266: The closing quote of the last argument of a macro can be omitted.
                   1267: However, omitting it is not recommended because it makes the code
                   1268: harder to read.
                   1269: .It Sy "duplicate argument"
                   1270: .Pq mdoc
                   1271: A
                   1272: .Ic \&Bd
                   1273: or
                   1274: .Ic \&Bl
                   1275: macro has more than one
                   1276: .Fl compact ,
                   1277: more than one
                   1278: .Fl offset ,
                   1279: or more than one
                   1280: .Fl width
                   1281: argument.
                   1282: All but the last instances of these arguments are ignored.
                   1283: .It Sy "skipping duplicate argument"
                   1284: .Pq mdoc
                   1285: An
                   1286: .Ic \&An
                   1287: macro has more than one
                   1288: .Fl split
                   1289: or
                   1290: .Fl nosplit
                   1291: argument.
                   1292: All but the first of these arguments are ignored.
                   1293: .It Sy "skipping duplicate display type"
                   1294: .Pq mdoc
                   1295: A
                   1296: .Ic \&Bd
                   1297: macro has more than one type argument; the first one is used.
                   1298: .It Sy "skipping duplicate list type"
                   1299: .Pq mdoc
                   1300: A
                   1301: .Ic \&Bl
                   1302: macro has more than one type argument; the first one is used.
                   1303: .It Sy "skipping -width argument"
                   1304: .Pq mdoc
                   1305: A
                   1306: .Ic \&Bl
                   1307: .Fl column ,
                   1308: .Fl diag ,
                   1309: .Fl ohang ,
                   1310: .Fl inset ,
                   1311: or
                   1312: .Fl item
                   1313: list has a
                   1314: .Fl width
                   1315: argument.
                   1316: That has no effect.
1.151     schwarze 1317: .It Sy "wrong number of cells"
                   1318: In a line of a
                   1319: .Ic \&Bl Fl column
                   1320: list, the number of tabs or
                   1321: .Ic \&Ta
                   1322: macros is less than the number expected from the list header line
                   1323: or exceeds the expected number by more than one.
                   1324: Missing cells remain empty, and all cells exceeding the number of
                   1325: columns are joined into one single cell.
1.106     schwarze 1326: .It Sy "unknown AT&T UNIX version"
                   1327: .Pq mdoc
                   1328: An
                   1329: .Ic \&At
                   1330: macro has an invalid argument.
                   1331: It is used verbatim, with
                   1332: .Qq "AT&T UNIX "
                   1333: prefixed to it.
1.113     schwarze 1334: .It Sy "comma in function argument"
                   1335: .Pq mdoc
                   1336: An argument of an
                   1337: .Ic \&Fa
                   1338: or
                   1339: .Ic \&Fn
                   1340: macro contains a comma; it should probably be split into two arguments.
1.117     schwarze 1341: .It Sy "parenthesis in function name"
                   1342: .Pq mdoc
                   1343: The first argument of an
                   1344: .Ic \&Fc
                   1345: or
                   1346: .Ic \&Fn
                   1347: macro contains an opening or closing parenthesis; that's probably wrong,
                   1348: parentheses are added automatically.
1.106     schwarze 1349: .It Sy "invalid content in Rs block"
                   1350: .Pq mdoc
                   1351: An
                   1352: .Ic \&Rs
                   1353: block contains plain text or non-% macros.
                   1354: The bogus content is left in the syntax tree.
                   1355: Formatting may be poor.
                   1356: .It Sy "invalid Boolean argument"
                   1357: .Pq mdoc
                   1358: An
                   1359: .Ic \&Sm
                   1360: macro has an argument other than
                   1361: .Cm on
                   1362: or
                   1363: .Cm off .
                   1364: The invalid argument is moved out of the macro, which leaves the macro
                   1365: empty, causing it to toggle the spacing mode.
                   1366: .It Sy "unknown font, skipping request"
1.115     schwarze 1367: .Pq man , tbl
1.106     schwarze 1368: A
                   1369: .Xr roff 7
                   1370: .Ic \&ft
1.115     schwarze 1371: request or a
                   1372: .Xr tbl 7
                   1373: .Ic \&f
                   1374: layout modifier has an unknown
                   1375: .Ar font
                   1376: argument.
1.151     schwarze 1377: .It Sy "odd number of characters in request"
                   1378: .Pq roff
                   1379: A
                   1380: .Ic \&tr
                   1381: request contains an odd number of characters.
                   1382: The last character is mapped to the blank character.
1.106     schwarze 1383: .El
                   1384: .Ss "Warnings related to plain text"
                   1385: .Bl -ohang
                   1386: .It Sy "blank line in fill mode, using .sp"
                   1387: .Pq mdoc
                   1388: The meaning of blank input lines is only well-defined in non-fill mode:
                   1389: In fill mode, line breaks of text input lines are not supposed to be
                   1390: significant.
                   1391: However, for compatibility with groff, blank lines in fill mode
                   1392: are replaced with
                   1393: .Ic \&sp
                   1394: requests.
                   1395: .It Sy "tab in filled text"
                   1396: .Pq mdoc , man
                   1397: The meaning of tab characters is only well-defined in non-fill mode:
                   1398: In fill mode, whitespace is not supposed to be significant
                   1399: on text input lines.
                   1400: As an implementation dependent choice, tab characters on text lines
                   1401: are passed through to the formatters in any case.
                   1402: Given that the text before the tab character will be filled,
                   1403: it is hard to predict which tab stop position the tab will advance to.
                   1404: .It Sy "whitespace at end of input line"
                   1405: .Pq mdoc , man , roff
                   1406: Whitespace at the end of input lines is almost never semantically
                   1407: significant \(em but in the odd case where it might be, it is
                   1408: extremely confusing when reviewing and maintaining documents.
1.172     schwarze 1409: .It Sy "new sentence, new line"
                   1410: .Pq mdoc
                   1411: A new sentence starts in the middle of a text line.
                   1412: Start it on a new input line to help formatters produce correct spacing.
1.106     schwarze 1413: .It Sy "bad comment style"
                   1414: .Pq roff
                   1415: Comment lines start with a dot, a backslash, and a double-quote character.
                   1416: The
                   1417: .Nm
                   1418: utility treats the line as a comment line even without the backslash,
                   1419: but leaving out the backslash might not be portable.
                   1420: .It Sy "invalid escape sequence"
                   1421: .Pq roff
                   1422: An escape sequence has an invalid opening argument delimiter, lacks the
                   1423: closing argument delimiter, or the argument has too few characters.
                   1424: If the argument is incomplete,
                   1425: .Ic \e*
                   1426: and
                   1427: .Ic \en
                   1428: expand to an empty string,
                   1429: .Ic \eB
                   1430: to the digit
                   1431: .Sq 0 ,
                   1432: and
                   1433: .Ic \ew
                   1434: to the length of the incomplete argument.
                   1435: All other invalid escape sequences are ignored.
                   1436: .It Sy "undefined string, using \(dq\(dq"
                   1437: .Pq roff
                   1438: If a string is used without being defined before,
                   1439: its value is implicitly set to the empty string.
                   1440: However, defining strings explicitly before use
                   1441: keeps the code more readable.
                   1442: .El
1.138     schwarze 1443: .Ss "Warnings related to tables"
                   1444: .Bl -ohang
                   1445: .It Sy "tbl line starts with span"
                   1446: .Pq tbl
                   1447: The first cell in a table layout line is a horizontal span
                   1448: .Pq Sq Cm s .
                   1449: Data provided for this cell is ignored, and nothing is printed in the cell.
                   1450: .It Sy "tbl column starts with span"
                   1451: .Pq tbl
                   1452: The first line of a table layout specification
                   1453: requests a vertical span
                   1454: .Pq Sq Cm ^ .
                   1455: Data provided for this cell is ignored, and nothing is printed in the cell.
                   1456: .It Sy "skipping vertical bar in tbl layout"
                   1457: .Pq tbl
                   1458: A table layout specification contains more than two consecutive vertical bars.
                   1459: A double bar is printed, all additional bars are discarded.
1.106     schwarze 1460: .El
                   1461: .Ss "Errors related to tables"
1.136     schwarze 1462: .Bl -ohang
                   1463: .It Sy "non-alphabetic character in tbl options"
                   1464: .Pq tbl
                   1465: The table options line contains a character other than a letter,
                   1466: blank, or comma where the beginning of an option name is expected.
                   1467: The character is ignored.
                   1468: .It Sy "skipping unknown tbl option"
                   1469: .Pq tbl
                   1470: The table options line contains a string of letters that does not
                   1471: match any known option name.
                   1472: The word is ignored.
                   1473: .It Sy "missing tbl option argument"
                   1474: .Pq tbl
                   1475: A table option that requires an argument is not followed by an
                   1476: opening parenthesis, or the opening parenthesis is immediately
                   1477: followed by a closing parenthesis.
                   1478: The option is ignored.
                   1479: .It Sy "wrong tbl option argument size"
                   1480: .Pq tbl
                   1481: A table option argument contains an invalid number of characters.
                   1482: Both the option and the argument are ignored.
1.138     schwarze 1483: .It Sy "empty tbl layout"
                   1484: .Pq tbl
                   1485: A table layout specification is completely empty,
                   1486: specifying zero lines and zero columns.
                   1487: As a fallback, a single left-justified column is used.
                   1488: .It Sy "invalid character in tbl layout"
                   1489: .Pq tbl
                   1490: A table layout specification contains a character that can neither
                   1491: be interpreted as a layout key character nor as a layout modifier,
                   1492: or a modifier precedes the first key.
                   1493: The invalid character is discarded.
                   1494: .It Sy "unmatched parenthesis in tbl layout"
                   1495: .Pq tbl
                   1496: A table layout specification contains an opening parenthesis,
                   1497: but no matching closing parenthesis.
                   1498: The rest of the input line, starting from the parenthesis, has no effect.
1.139     schwarze 1499: .It Sy "tbl without any data cells"
                   1500: .Pq tbl
                   1501: A table does not contain any data cells.
                   1502: It will probably produce no output.
                   1503: .It Sy "ignoring data in spanned tbl cell"
                   1504: .Pq tbl
                   1505: A table cell is marked as a horizontal span
                   1506: .Pq Sq Cm s
                   1507: or vertical span
                   1508: .Pq Sq Cm ^
                   1509: in the table layout, but it contains data.
                   1510: The data is ignored.
                   1511: .It Sy "ignoring extra tbl data cells"
                   1512: .Pq tbl
                   1513: A data line contains more cells than the corresponding layout line.
                   1514: The data in the extra cells is ignored.
                   1515: .It Sy "data block open at end of tbl"
                   1516: .Pq tbl
                   1517: A data block is opened with
                   1518: .Cm T{ ,
                   1519: but never closed with a matching
                   1520: .Cm T} .
                   1521: The remaining data lines of the table are all put into one cell,
                   1522: and any remaining cells stay empty.
1.106     schwarze 1523: .El
                   1524: .Ss "Errors related to roff, mdoc, and man code"
                   1525: .Bl -ohang
                   1526: .It Sy "input stack limit exceeded, infinite loop?"
                   1527: .Pq roff
                   1528: Explicit recursion limits are implemented for the following features,
                   1529: in order to prevent infinite loops:
                   1530: .Bl -dash -compact
                   1531: .It
                   1532: expansion of nested escape sequences
                   1533: including expansion of strings and number registers,
                   1534: .It
                   1535: expansion of nested user-defined macros,
                   1536: .It
                   1537: and
                   1538: .Ic \&so
                   1539: file inclusion.
                   1540: .El
                   1541: When a limit is hit, the output is incorrect, typically losing
                   1542: some content, but the parser can continue.
                   1543: .It Sy "skipping bad character"
                   1544: .Pq mdoc , man , roff
                   1545: The input file contains a byte that is not a printable
                   1546: .Xr ascii 7
                   1547: character.
                   1548: The message mentions the character number.
                   1549: The offending byte is replaced with a question mark
                   1550: .Pq Sq \&? .
                   1551: Consider editing the input file to replace the byte with an ASCII
                   1552: transliteration of the intended character.
                   1553: .It Sy "skipping unknown macro"
                   1554: .Pq mdoc , man , roff
                   1555: The first identifier on a request or macro line is neither recognized as a
                   1556: .Xr roff 7
                   1557: request, nor as a user-defined macro, nor, respectively, as an
                   1558: .Xr mdoc 7
                   1559: or
                   1560: .Xr man 7
                   1561: macro.
                   1562: It may be mistyped or unsupported.
                   1563: The request or macro is discarded including its arguments.
1.133     schwarze 1564: .It Sy "skipping insecure request"
                   1565: .Pq roff
                   1566: An input file attempted to run a shell command
                   1567: or to read or write an external file.
                   1568: Such attempts are denied for security reasons.
1.106     schwarze 1569: .It Sy "skipping item outside list"
1.118     schwarze 1570: .Pq mdoc , eqn
1.106     schwarze 1571: An
                   1572: .Ic \&It
                   1573: macro occurs outside any
                   1574: .Ic \&Bl
1.118     schwarze 1575: list, or an
                   1576: .Xr eqn 7
                   1577: .Ic above
                   1578: delimiter occurs outside any pile.
1.106     schwarze 1579: It is discarded including its arguments.
                   1580: .It Sy "skipping column outside column list"
                   1581: .Pq mdoc
                   1582: A
                   1583: .Ic \&Ta
                   1584: macro occurs outside any
                   1585: .Ic \&Bl Fl column
                   1586: block.
                   1587: It is discarded including its arguments.
                   1588: .It Sy "skipping end of block that is not open"
                   1589: .Pq mdoc , man , eqn , tbl , roff
                   1590: Various syntax elements can only be used to explicitly close blocks
                   1591: that have previously been opened.
                   1592: An
                   1593: .Xr mdoc 7
                   1594: block closing macro, a
                   1595: .Xr man 7
                   1596: .Ic \&RE
                   1597: or
                   1598: .Ic \&UE
1.118     schwarze 1599: macro, an
                   1600: .Xr eqn 7
                   1601: right delimiter or closing brace, or the end of an equation, table, or
1.106     schwarze 1602: .Xr roff 7
                   1603: conditional request is encountered but no matching block is open.
                   1604: The offending request or macro is discarded.
1.135     schwarze 1605: .It Sy "fewer RS blocks open, skipping"
                   1606: .Pq man
                   1607: The
                   1608: .Ic \&RE
                   1609: macro is invoked with an argument, but less than the specified number of
                   1610: .Ic \&RS
                   1611: blocks is open.
                   1612: The
                   1613: .Ic \&RE
                   1614: macro is discarded.
1.106     schwarze 1615: .It Sy "inserting missing end of block"
                   1616: .Pq mdoc , tbl
                   1617: Various
                   1618: .Xr mdoc 7
                   1619: macros as well as tables require explicit closing by dedicated macros.
                   1620: A block that doesn't support bad nesting
                   1621: ends before all of its children are properly closed.
                   1622: The open child nodes are closed implicitly.
1.152     schwarze 1623: .It Sy "appending missing end of block"
1.106     schwarze 1624: .Pq mdoc , man , eqn , tbl , roff
                   1625: At the end of the document, an explicit
                   1626: .Xr mdoc 7
                   1627: block, a
                   1628: .Xr man 7
                   1629: next-line scope or
                   1630: .Ic \&RS
                   1631: or
                   1632: .Ic \&UR
                   1633: block, an equation, table, or
                   1634: .Xr roff 7
                   1635: conditional or ignore block is still open.
                   1636: The open block is closed implicitly.
                   1637: .It Sy "escaped character not allowed in a name"
                   1638: .Pq roff
                   1639: Macro, string and register identifiers consist of printable,
                   1640: non-whitespace ASCII characters.
                   1641: Escape sequences and characters and strings expressed in terms of them
                   1642: cannot form part of a name.
                   1643: The first argument of an
                   1644: .Ic \&am ,
                   1645: .Ic \&as ,
                   1646: .Ic \&de ,
                   1647: .Ic \&ds ,
                   1648: .Ic \&nr ,
                   1649: or
                   1650: .Ic \&rr
                   1651: request, or any argument of an
                   1652: .Ic \&rm
                   1653: request, or the name of a request or user defined macro being called,
                   1654: is terminated by an escape sequence.
                   1655: In the cases of
                   1656: .Ic \&as ,
                   1657: .Ic \&ds ,
                   1658: and
                   1659: .Ic \&nr ,
                   1660: the request has no effect at all.
                   1661: In the cases of
                   1662: .Ic \&am ,
                   1663: .Ic \&de ,
                   1664: .Ic \&rr ,
                   1665: and
                   1666: .Ic \&rm ,
                   1667: what was parsed up to this point is used as the arguments to the request,
                   1668: and the rest of the input line is discarded including the escape sequence.
                   1669: When parsing for a request or a user-defined macro name to be called,
                   1670: only the escape sequence is discarded.
                   1671: The characters preceding it are used as the request or macro name,
                   1672: the characters following it are used as the arguments to the request or macro.
1.124     schwarze 1673: .It Sy "NOT IMPLEMENTED: Bd -file"
                   1674: .Pq mdoc
                   1675: For security reasons, the
                   1676: .Ic \&Bd
                   1677: macro does not support the
                   1678: .Fl file
                   1679: argument.
                   1680: By requesting the inclusion of a sensitive file, a malicious document
                   1681: might otherwise trick a privileged user into inadvertently displaying
                   1682: the file on the screen, revealing the file content to bystanders.
                   1683: The argument is ignored including the file name following it.
1.163     schwarze 1684: .It Sy "skipping display without arguments"
                   1685: .Pq mdoc
                   1686: A
                   1687: .Ic \&Bd
                   1688: block macro does not have any arguments.
                   1689: The block is discarded, and the block content is displayed in
                   1690: whatever mode was active before the block.
1.106     schwarze 1691: .It Sy "missing list type, using -item"
                   1692: .Pq mdoc
                   1693: A
                   1694: .Ic \&Bl
                   1695: macro fails to specify the list type.
                   1696: .It Sy "missing manual name, using \(dq\(dq"
                   1697: .Pq mdoc
                   1698: The first call to
1.168     schwarze 1699: .Ic \&Nm ,
                   1700: or any call in the NAME section, lacks the required argument.
1.106     schwarze 1701: .It Sy "uname(3) system call failed, using UNKNOWN"
                   1702: .Pq mdoc
                   1703: The
                   1704: .Ic \&Os
                   1705: macro is called without arguments, and the
                   1706: .Xr uname 3
                   1707: system call failed.
                   1708: As a workaround,
                   1709: .Nm
                   1710: can be compiled with
                   1711: .Sm off
                   1712: .Fl D Cm OSNAME=\(dq\e\(dq Ar string Cm \e\(dq\(dq .
                   1713: .Sm on
                   1714: .It Sy "unknown standard specifier"
                   1715: .Pq mdoc
                   1716: An
                   1717: .Ic \&St
                   1718: macro has an unknown argument and is discarded.
                   1719: .It Sy "skipping request without numeric argument"
1.118     schwarze 1720: .Pq roff , eqn
1.106     schwarze 1721: An
                   1722: .Ic \&it
1.118     schwarze 1723: request or an
                   1724: .Xr eqn 7
                   1725: .Ic \&size
                   1726: or
                   1727: .Ic \&gsize
                   1728: statement has a non-numeric or negative argument or no argument at all.
                   1729: The invalid request or statement is ignored.
1.132     schwarze 1730: .It Sy "NOT IMPLEMENTED: .so with absolute path or \(dq..\(dq"
                   1731: .Pq roff
                   1732: For security reasons,
                   1733: .Nm
                   1734: allows
                   1735: .Ic \&so
                   1736: file inclusion requests only with relative paths
                   1737: and only without ascending to any parent directory.
                   1738: By requesting the inclusion of a sensitive file, a malicious document
                   1739: might otherwise trick a privileged user into inadvertently displaying
                   1740: the file on the screen, revealing the file content to bystanders.
                   1741: .Nm
                   1742: only shows the path as it appears behind
                   1743: .Ic \&so .
                   1744: .It Sy ".so request failed"
                   1745: .Pq roff
                   1746: Servicing a
                   1747: .Ic \&so
                   1748: request requires reading an external file, but the file could not be
                   1749: opened.
                   1750: .Nm
                   1751: only shows the path as it appears behind
                   1752: .Ic \&so .
1.106     schwarze 1753: .It Sy "skipping all arguments"
                   1754: .Pq mdoc , man , eqn , roff
                   1755: An
                   1756: .Xr mdoc 7
                   1757: .Ic \&Bt ,
                   1758: .Ic \&Ed ,
                   1759: .Ic \&Ef ,
                   1760: .Ic \&Ek ,
                   1761: .Ic \&El ,
1.144     schwarze 1762: .Ic \&Lp ,
                   1763: .Ic \&Pp ,
1.106     schwarze 1764: .Ic \&Re ,
1.143     schwarze 1765: .Ic \&Rs ,
1.106     schwarze 1766: or
                   1767: .Ic \&Ud
                   1768: macro, an
                   1769: .Ic \&It
                   1770: macro in a list that don't support item heads, a
                   1771: .Xr man 7
                   1772: .Ic \&LP ,
                   1773: .Ic \&P ,
                   1774: or
                   1775: .Ic \&PP
                   1776: macro, an
                   1777: .Xr eqn 7
1.120     schwarze 1778: .Ic \&EQ
                   1779: or
1.106     schwarze 1780: .Ic \&EN
                   1781: macro, or a
                   1782: .Xr roff 7
1.148     schwarze 1783: .Ic \&br ,
                   1784: .Ic \&fi ,
                   1785: or
                   1786: .Ic \&nf
1.144     schwarze 1787: request or
1.106     schwarze 1788: .Sq \&..
                   1789: block closing request is invoked with at least one argument.
                   1790: All arguments are ignored.
                   1791: .It Sy "skipping excess arguments"
1.135     schwarze 1792: .Pq mdoc , man , roff
1.150     schwarze 1793: A macro or request is invoked with too many arguments:
                   1794: .Bl -dash -offset 2n -width 2n -compact
                   1795: .It
                   1796: .Ic \&Fo ,
                   1797: .Ic \&PD ,
                   1798: .Ic \&RS ,
                   1799: .Ic \&UR ,
                   1800: .Ic \&ft ,
                   1801: or
                   1802: .Ic \&sp
                   1803: with more than one argument
                   1804: .It
1.144     schwarze 1805: .Ic \&An
1.150     schwarze 1806: with another argument after
1.144     schwarze 1807: .Fl split
                   1808: or
1.150     schwarze 1809: .Fl nosplit
                   1810: .It
                   1811: .Ic \&RE
                   1812: with more than one argument or with a non-integer argument
                   1813: .It
                   1814: .Ic \&OP
                   1815: or a request of the
                   1816: .Ic \&de
                   1817: family with more than two arguments
1.154     schwarze 1818: .It
                   1819: .Ic \&Dt
                   1820: with more than three arguments
1.150     schwarze 1821: .It
                   1822: .Ic \&TH
                   1823: with more than five arguments
                   1824: .It
1.145     schwarze 1825: .Ic \&Bd ,
                   1826: .Ic \&Bk ,
                   1827: or
                   1828: .Ic \&Bl
1.150     schwarze 1829: with invalid arguments
                   1830: .El
1.106     schwarze 1831: The excess arguments are ignored.
1.133     schwarze 1832: .El
                   1833: .Ss Unsupported features
                   1834: .Bl -ohang
                   1835: .It Sy "input too large"
                   1836: .Pq mdoc , man
                   1837: Currently,
                   1838: .Nm
                   1839: cannot handle input files larger than its arbitrary size limit
                   1840: of 2^31 bytes (2 Gigabytes).
                   1841: Since useful manuals are always small, this is not a problem in practice.
                   1842: Parsing is aborted as soon as the condition is detected.
1.136     schwarze 1843: .It Sy "unsupported control character"
                   1844: .Pq roff
                   1845: An ASCII control character supported by other
                   1846: .Xr roff 7
                   1847: implementations but not by
                   1848: .Nm
                   1849: was found in an input file.
                   1850: It is replaced by a question mark.
1.133     schwarze 1851: .It Sy "unsupported roff request"
                   1852: .Pq roff
                   1853: An input file contains a
                   1854: .Xr roff 7
                   1855: request supported by GNU troff or Heirloom troff but not by
                   1856: .Nm ,
                   1857: and it is likely that this will cause information loss
                   1858: or considerable misformatting.
1.139     schwarze 1859: .It Sy "eqn delim option in tbl"
                   1860: .Pq eqn , tbl
                   1861: The options line of a table defines equation delimiters.
                   1862: Any equation source code contained in the table will be printed unformatted.
                   1863: .It Sy "unsupported table layout modifier"
1.138     schwarze 1864: .Pq tbl
                   1865: A table layout specification contains an
                   1866: .Sq Cm m
                   1867: modifier.
                   1868: The modifier is discarded.
1.133     schwarze 1869: .It Sy "ignoring macro in table"
1.139     schwarze 1870: .Pq tbl , mdoc , man
                   1871: A table contains an invocation of an
                   1872: .Xr mdoc 7
                   1873: or
                   1874: .Xr man 7
                   1875: macro or of an undefined macro.
                   1876: The macro is ignored, and its arguments are handled
                   1877: as if they were a text line.
1.106     schwarze 1878: .El
1.1       kristaps 1879: .Sh SEE ALSO
1.141     schwarze 1880: .Xr apropos 1 ,
                   1881: .Xr man 1 ,
1.85      kristaps 1882: .Xr eqn 7 ,
1.57      kristaps 1883: .Xr man 7 ,
1.13      kristaps 1884: .Xr mandoc_char 7 ,
1.84      kristaps 1885: .Xr mdoc 7 ,
                   1886: .Xr roff 7 ,
                   1887: .Xr tbl 7
1.173     schwarze 1888: .Sh HISTORY
                   1889: The
                   1890: .Nm
                   1891: utility first appeared in
                   1892: .Ox 4.8 .
                   1893: The option
                   1894: .Fl I
                   1895: appeared in
                   1896: .Ox 5.2 ,
                   1897: and
                   1898: .Fl aCcfhKklMSsw
                   1899: in
                   1900: .Ox 5.7 .
1.1       kristaps 1901: .Sh AUTHORS
1.156     schwarze 1902: .An -nosplit
1.1       kristaps 1903: The
                   1904: .Nm
1.26      kristaps 1905: utility was written by
1.141     schwarze 1906: .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv
                   1907: and is maintained by
                   1908: .An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .

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