Mandoc

EQN(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual

Mdoc, Mandoc, Mandoc_char, Roff, Man, Eqn

EQN(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual # EQN(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual NAME # eqn - eqn language reference for mandoc DESCRIPTION # The eqn language is an equation-formatting language. It is used within mdoc(7) and man(7) UNIX manual pages. It describes the structure of an equation, not its mathematical meaning. This manual describes the eqn language accepted by the mandoc(1) utility, which corresponds to the Second Edition eqn specification (see SEE ALSO for references). ...

MAN(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual

Mdoc, Eqn, Tbl, Mandoc, Mandoc_char, Roff, Man

MAN(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual # MAN(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual NAME # man - legacy formatting language for manual pages DESCRIPTION # The man language was the standard formatting language for AT&T UNIX manual pages from 1979 to 1989. Do not use it to write new manual pages: it is a purely presentational language and lacks support for semantic markup. Use the mdoc(7) language, instead. In a man document, lines beginning with the control character ‘. ...

MANDOC_CHAR(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual

Roff, Man, Mdoc, Mandoc, Mandoc-Char

MANDOC_CHAR(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual # MANDOC_CHAR(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual NAME # mandoc_char - mandoc special characters DESCRIPTION # This page documents the roff(7) escape sequences accepted by mandoc(1) to represent special characters in mdoc(7) and man(7) documents. The rendering depends on the mandoc(1) output mode; it can be inspected by calling man(1) on the mandoc_char manual page with different -T arguments. In ASCII output, the rendering of some characters may be hard to interpret for the reader. ...

MANDOC(1) - General Commands Manual

Mdoc, Eqn, Tbl, Apropos, Mandoc_char, Roff, Man, Mandoc

MANDOC(1) - General Commands Manual # MANDOC(1) - General Commands Manual NAME # mandoc - format manual pages SYNOPSIS # mandoc [-ac] [-I os=name] [-K encoding] [-mdoc | -man] [-O options] [-T output] [-W level] [file …] DESCRIPTION # The mandoc utility formats manual pages for display. By default, mandoc reads mdoc(7) or man(7) text from stdin and produces -T locale output. The options are as follows: -a If the standard output is a terminal device and -c is not specified, use less(1) to paginate the output, just like man(1) would. ...

MDOC(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual

Eqn, Tbl, Mandoc, Mandoc_char, Roff, Man, Mdoc

MDOC(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual # MDOC(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual NAME # mdoc - semantic markup language for formatting manual pages DESCRIPTION # The mdoc language supports authoring of manual pages for the man(1) utility by allowing semantic annotations of words, phrases, page sections and complete manual pages. Such annotations are used by formatting tools to achieve a uniform presentation across all manuals written in mdoc, and to support hyperlinking if supported by the output medium. ...

ROFF(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual

Mdoc, Eqn, Tbl, Mandoc, Mandoc_char, Man, Roff

ROFF(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual # ROFF(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual NAME # roff - roff language reference for mandoc DESCRIPTION # The roff language is a general purpose text formatting language. Since traditional implementations of the mdoc(7) and man(7) manual formatting languages are based on it, many real-world manuals use small numbers of roff requests and escape sequences intermixed with their mdoc(7) or man(7) code. To properly format such manuals, the mandoc(1) utility supports a subset of roff requests and escapes. ...