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).
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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 ‘.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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