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author | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-12-25 15:09:06 +0000 |
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committer | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-12-25 15:09:06 +0000 |
commit | bdaa38dc4168409242b3385b00ec40af3f393931 (patch) | |
tree | d7515ffcd8a7cb898a4e88743cdcfa8c5a52c5e0 /gnu | |
parent | 0e3b49a9c1481152ff28037c2167ed7bd64742d4 (diff) | |
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Markup revision.
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1 files changed, 36 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man b/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man index 963d001..7a3cc0e 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man @@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ .Op Ar section .Ar name ... .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Man +The +.Nm +utility formats and displays the on-line manual pages. This version knows about the @@ -41,7 +43,9 @@ and environment variables, so you can have your own set(s) of personal man pages and choose whatever program you like to display the formatted pages. -If section is specified, +If +.Ar section +is specified, .Nm only looks in that section of the manual. You may also specify the @@ -49,11 +53,12 @@ order to search the sections for entries and which preprocessors to run on the source files via command line options or environment variables. If enabled by the system administrator, formatted man -pages will also be compressed with the `%compress%' command to save -space. +pages will also be compressed with the +.Dq Li "%compress%" +command to save space. .Pp The options are as follows: -.Bl -tag -width Fl +.Bl -tag -width ".Fl P Ar pager" .It Fl M Ar path Specify an alternate manpath. By default, @@ -72,7 +77,7 @@ Specify which pager to use. By default, .Nm uses -.Nm %pager% . +.Dq Li "%pager%" . This option overrides the .Ev PAGER environment variable. @@ -172,8 +177,8 @@ will search in the following subdirectories, in the order of precedence: .Sm on .El .Pp -For example, for -.Dq de_DE.ISO8859-1 +For example, for the +.Dq Li de_DE.ISO8859-1 locale, .Nm will search in the following subdirectories of the @@ -195,10 +200,18 @@ it will be looked up in the default .Pa /usr/share/man directory. .It Fl p Ar string -Specify the sequence of preprocessors to run before nroff or troff. +Specify the sequence of preprocessors to run before +.Xr nroff 1 +or +.Xr troff 1 . Not all installations will have a full set of preprocessors. Some of the preprocessors and the letters used to designate them are: -eqn (e), grap (g), pic (p), tbl (t), vgrind (v), refer (r). +.Nm eqn Pq e , +.Nm grap Pq g , +.Nm pic Pq p , +.Nm tbl Pq t , +.Nm vgrind Pq v , +.Nm refer Pq r . This option overrides the .Ev MANROFFSEQ environment variable. @@ -245,9 +258,15 @@ is set, its value is used as the path to search for manual pages. If .Ev MANROFFSEQ is set, its value is used to determine the set of preprocessors run -before running nroff or troff. +before running +.Xr nroff 1 +or +.Xr troff 1 . By default, pages are passed through -the table preprocessor before nroff. +the table preprocessor +.Pq Xr tbl 1 +before +.Xr nroff 1 . .It Ev MANSECT If .Ev MANSECT @@ -258,22 +277,23 @@ If is set, its value is used as the name of the program to use to display the man page. By default, -.Nm %pager% +.Dq Li "%pager%" is used. .El .Sh EXAMPLES .Pp -Normally, to look at the relevant manpage information for getopt, +Normally, to look at the relevant manpage information for +.Dq Li getopt , one would use: .Pp -.Dl man getopt +.Dl "man getopt" .Pp However, when referring to a specific section of the manual, such as .Xr getopt 3 , one would use: .Pp -.Dl man 3 getopt +.Dl "man 3 getopt" .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr apropos 1 , .Xr groff 1 , |