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- Compatiblity with existing manpages has been improved - Now support ".so" directive with compressed manpages (which fixes a regression we have since we have new man(1))
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109 lines
2.6 KiB
Groff
.\" $Id: demandoc.1,v 1.8 2014/09/12 00:10:26 schwarze Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
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.\"
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.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
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.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
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.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
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.\"
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.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
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.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
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.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
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.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
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.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
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.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
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.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
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.\"
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.Dd $Mdocdate: September 12 2014 $
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.Dt DEMANDOC 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm demandoc
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.Nd emit only text of UNIX manuals
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm demandoc
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.Op Fl w
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.Op Ar
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility emits only the text portions of well-formed
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.Xr mdoc 7
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and
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.Xr man 7
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.Ux
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manual files.
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.Pp
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By default,
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.Nm
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parses standard input and outputs only text nodes, preserving line
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and column position.
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Escape sequences are omitted from the output.
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.Pp
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Its arguments are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It Fl w
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Output a word list.
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This outputs each word of text on its own line.
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A
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.Qq word ,
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in this case, refers to whitespace-delimited terms beginning with at
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least two letters and not consisting of any escape sequences.
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Words have their leading and trailing punctuation
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.Pq double-quotes, sentence punctuation, etc.
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stripped.
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.It Ar
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The input files.
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.El
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.Pp
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If a document is not well-formed, it is skipped.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl i ,
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.Fl k ,
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.Fl m ,
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and
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.Fl p
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flags are silently discarded for calling compatibility with the
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historical deroff.
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.Sh EXIT STATUS
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The
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.Nm
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utility exits with one of the following values:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
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.It 0
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No errors occurred.
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.It 6
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An operating system error occurred, for example memory exhaustion or an
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error accessing input files.
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Such errors cause
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.Nm
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to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or formatting a file.
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The output databases are corrupt and should be removed .
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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The traditional usage of
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.Nm
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is for spell-checking manuals on
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.Bx .
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This is accomplished as follows (assuming British spelling):
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.Pp
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.Dl $ demandoc -w file.1 | spell -b
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr mandoc 1 ,
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.Xr man 7 ,
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.Xr mdoc 7
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Nm
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replaces the historical deroff utility for handling modern
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.Xr man 7
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and
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.Xr mdoc 7
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documents.
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.Sh AUTHORS
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The
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.Nm
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utility was written by
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.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .
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