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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man7/man.7 b/static/openbsd/man7/man.7 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f3942ad3 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man7/man.7 @@ -0,0 +1,672 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: man.7,v 1.67 2025/11/03 09:59:05 bentley Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2011-2015, 2017-2020, 2023, 2025 +.\" Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> +.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> +.\" Copyright (c) 2017 Anthony J. Bentley <bentley@openbsd.org> +.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@netbsd.org> +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any +.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES +.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF +.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: November 3 2025 $ +.Dt MAN 7 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm man +.Nd legacy formatting language for manual pages +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm man +language was the standard formatting language for +.At +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 +.Xr mdoc 7 +language, instead. +.Pp +In a +.Nm +document, lines beginning with the control character +.Sq \&. +are called +.Dq macro lines . +The first word is the macro name. +It usually consists of two capital letters. +For a list of portable macros, see +.Sx MACRO OVERVIEW . +The words following the macro name are arguments to the macro. +.Pp +Lines not beginning with the control character are called +.Dq text lines . +They provide free-form text to be printed; the formatting of the text +depends on the respective processing context: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.SH Macro lines change control state. +Text lines are interpreted within the current state. +.Ed +.Pp +Many aspects of the basic syntax of the +.Nm +language are based on the +.Xr roff 7 +language; see the +.Em LANGUAGE SYNTAX +and +.Em MACRO SYNTAX +sections in the +.Xr roff 7 +manual for details, in particular regarding +comments, escape sequences, whitespace, and quoting. +.Pp +Each +.Nm +document starts with the +.Ic TH +macro specifying the document's name and section, followed by the +.Sx NAME +section formatted as follows: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.TH PROGNAME 1 1979-01-10 +\&.SH NAME +\efBprogname\efR \e(en one line about what it does +.Ed +.Sh MACRO OVERVIEW +This overview is sorted such that macros of similar purpose are listed +together. +Deprecated and non-portable macros are not included in the overview, +but can be found in the alphabetical reference below. +.Ss Page header and footer meta-data +.Bl -column "RS, RE" description +.It Ic TH Ta set the title: Ar name section date Op Ar source Op Ar volume +.It Ic AT Ta display AT&T UNIX version in the page footer (<= 2 arguments) +.It Ic UC Ta display BSD version in the page footer (<= 1 argument) +.El +.Ss Sections and paragraphs +.Bl -column "RS, RE" description +.It Ic SH Ta section header (one line) +.It Ic SS Ta subsection header (one line) +.It Ic PP Ta start an undecorated paragraph (no arguments) +.It Ic IP Ta indented paragraph: Op Ar head Op Ar width +.It Ic TP Ta tagged paragraph: Op Ar width +.It Ic HP Ta hanged paragraph: Op Ar width +.It Ic PD Ta set vertical paragraph distance: Op Ar height +.It Ic EX , EE Ta display an example (no arguments) +.It Ic RS , RE Ta reset the left margin: Op Ar width +.It Ic in Ta additional indent: Op Ar width +.El +.Ss Physical markup +.Bl -column "RS, RE" description +.It Ic B Ta boldface font +.It Ic I Ta italic font +.It Ic SB Ta small boldface font +.It Ic SM Ta small roman font +.It Ic BI Ta alternate between boldface and italic fonts +.It Ic BR Ta alternate between boldface and roman fonts +.It Ic IB Ta alternate between italic and boldface fonts +.It Ic IR Ta alternate between italic and roman fonts +.It Ic RB Ta alternate between roman and boldface fonts +.It Ic RI Ta alternate between roman and italic fonts +.El +.Sh MACRO REFERENCE +This section is a canonical reference to all macros, arranged +alphabetically. +For the scoping of individual macros, see +.Sx MACRO SYNTAX . +.Bl -tag -width 3n +.It Ic AT +Sets the volume for the footer for compatibility with man pages from +.At +releases. +The optional arguments specify which release it is from. +This macro is an extension that first appeared in +.Bx 4.3 . +.It Ic B +Text is rendered in bold face. +.It Ic BI +Text is rendered alternately in bold face and italic. +Thus, +.Sq .BI this word and that +causes +.Sq this +and +.Sq and +to render in bold face, while +.Sq word +and +.Sq that +render in italics. +Whitespace between arguments is omitted in output. +.Pp +Example: +.Pp +.Dl \&.BI bold italic bold italic +.It Ic BR +Text is rendered alternately in bold face and roman (the default font). +Whitespace between arguments is omitted in output. +See also +.Ic BI . +.It Ic DT +Restore the default tabulator positions. +They are at intervals of 0.5 inches. +This has no effect unless the tabulator positions were changed with the +.Xr roff 7 +.Ic ta +request. +.It Ic EE +End an example block started with +.Ic EX . +This is a Version 9 +.At +extension later adopted by GNU. +In +.Xr mandoc 1 , +it does the same as the +.Xr roff 7 +.Ic fi +request (switch to fill mode). +.It Ic EX +Begin a block to display an example. +This is a Version 9 +.At +extension later adopted by GNU. +In +.Xr mandoc 1 , +it does the same as the +.Xr roff 7 +.Ic nf +request (switch to no-fill mode). +.It Ic HP +Begin a paragraph whose initial output line is left-justified, but +subsequent output lines are indented, with the following syntax: +.Pp +.D1 Pf . Ic HP Op Ar width +.Pp +The +.Ar width +argument is a +.Xr roff 7 +scaling width. +If specified, it's saved for later paragraph left margins; +if unspecified, the saved or default width is used. +.It Ic I +Text is rendered in italics. +.It Ic IB +Text is rendered alternately in italics and bold face. +Whitespace between arguments is omitted in output. +See also +.Ic BI . +.It Ic IP +Begin an indented paragraph with the following syntax: +.Pp +.D1 Pf . Ic IP Op Ar head Op Ar width +.Pp +The +.Ar width +argument is a +.Xr roff 7 +scaling width defining the left margin. +It's saved for later paragraph left-margins; if unspecified, the saved or +default width is used. +.Pp +The +.Ar head +argument is used as a leading term, flushed to the left margin. +This is useful for bulleted paragraphs and so on. +.It Ic IR +Text is rendered alternately in italics and roman (the default font). +Whitespace between arguments is omitted in output. +See also +.Ic BI . +.It Ic LP +A synonym for +.Ic PP . +.It Ic ME +End a mailto block started with +.Ic MT . +This is a GNU extension. +.It Ic MR +Reference another manual page. +This is a Plan 9 extension also supported by GNU. +It has the following syntax: +.Pp +.D1 Pf . Ic MR Ar name section Op Ar suffix +.Pp +The optional, single +.Ar suffix +argument is appended without preceding whitespace +and typically used for trailing punctuation. +.It Ic MT +Begin a mailto block. +This is a GNU extension. +It has the following syntax: +.Bd -unfilled -offset indent +.Pf . Ic MT Ar address +link description to be shown +.Pf . Ic ME +.Ed +.It Ic OP +Optional command-line argument. +This is a deprecated GNU extension. +The name and purpose of the macro match an earlier DWB extension, +but both the syntax and semantics are incompatible. +In GNU and +.Xr mandoc 1 , +it has the following syntax: +.Pp +.D1 Pf . Ic OP Ar key Op Ar value +.Pp +The +.Ar key +is usually a command-line flag and +.Ar value +its argument. +.It Ic P +This synonym for +.Ic PP +is an +.At III +extension later adopted by +.Bx 4.3 . +.It Ic PD +Specify the vertical space to be inserted before each new paragraph. +.br +The syntax is as follows: +.Pp +.D1 Pf . Ic PD Op Ar height +.Pp +The +.Ar height +argument is a +.Xr roff 7 +scaling width. +It defaults to +.Cm 1v . +If the unit is omitted, +.Cm v +is assumed. +.Pp +This macro affects the spacing before any subsequent instances of +.Ic HP , +.Ic IP , +.Ic LP , +.Ic P , +.Ic PP , +.Ic SH , +.Ic SS , +.Ic SY , +and +.Ic TP . +.It Ic PP +Begin an undecorated paragraph. +The scope of a paragraph is closed by a subsequent paragraph, +sub-section, section, or end of file. +The saved paragraph left-margin width is reset to the default. +.It Ic RB +Text is rendered alternately in roman (the default font) and bold face. +Whitespace between arguments is omitted in output. +See also +.Ic BI . +.It Ic RE +Explicitly close out the scope of a prior +.Ic RS . +The default left margin is restored to the state before that +.Ic RS +invocation. +.Pp +The syntax is as follows: +.Pp +.D1 Pf . Ic RE Op Ar level +.Pp +Without an argument, the most recent +.Ic RS +block is closed out. +If +.Ar level +is 1, all open +.Ic RS +blocks are closed out. +Otherwise, +.Ar level No \(mi 1 +nested +.Ic RS +blocks remain open. +.It Ic RI +Text is rendered alternately in roman (the default font) and italics. +Whitespace between arguments is omitted in output. +See also +.Ic BI . +.It Ic RS +Temporarily reset the default left margin. +This has the following syntax: +.Pp +.D1 Pf . Ic RS Op Ar width +.Pp +The +.Ar width +argument is a +.Xr roff 7 +scaling width. +If not specified, the saved or default width is used. +.Pp +See also +.Ic RE . +.It Ic SB +Text is rendered in small size (one point smaller than the default font) +bold face. +This macro is an extension that probably first appeared in SunOS 4.0 +and was later adopted by GNU and by +.Bx 4.4 . +.It Ic SH +Begin a section. +The scope of a section is only closed by another section or the end of +file. +The paragraph left-margin width is reset to the default. +.It Ic SM +Text is rendered in small size (one point smaller than the default +font). +.It Ic SS +Begin a sub-section. +The scope of a sub-section is closed by a subsequent sub-section, +section, or end of file. +The paragraph left-margin width is reset to the default. +.It Ic SY +Begin a synopsis block with the following syntax: +.Bd -unfilled -offset indent +.Pf . Ic SY Ar command +.Ar arguments +.Pf . Ic YS +.Ed +.Pp +This is a GNU extension and rarely used even in GNU manual pages. +Formatting is similar to +.Ic IP . +.It Ic TH +Set the name of the manual page for use in the page header +and footer with the following syntax: +.Pp +.D1 Pf . Ic TH Ar name section date Op Ar source Op Ar volume +.Pp +Conventionally, the document +.Ar name +is given in all caps. +The +.Ar section +is usually a single digit, in a few cases followed by a letter. +The recommended +.Ar date +format is +.Sy YYYY-MM-DD +as specified in the ISO-8601 standard; +if the argument does not conform, it is printed verbatim. +If the +.Ar date +is empty or not specified, the current date is used. +The optional +.Ar source +string specifies the organisation providing the utility. +When unspecified, +.Xr mandoc 1 +uses its +.Fl Ios +argument. +The +.Ar volume +string replaces the default volume title of the +.Ar section . +.Pp +Examples: +.Pp +.Dl \&.TH CVS 5 "1992-02-12" GNU +.It Ic TP +Begin a paragraph where the head, if exceeding the indentation width, is +followed by a newline; if not, the body follows on the same line after +advancing to the indentation width. +Subsequent output lines are indented. +The syntax is as follows: +.Bd -unfilled -offset indent +.Pf . Ic TP Op Ar width +.Ar head No \e" one line +.Ar body +.Ed +.Pp +The +.Ar width +argument is a +.Xr roff 7 +scaling width. +If specified, it's saved for later paragraph left-margins; if +unspecified, the saved or default width is used. +.It Ic TQ +Like +.Ic TP , +except that no vertical spacing is inserted before the paragraph. +This is a GNU extension. +.It Ic UC +Sets the volume for the footer for compatibility with man pages from +.Bx +releases. +The optional first argument specifies which release it is from. +This macro is an extension that first appeared in +.Bx 3 . +.It Ic UE +End a uniform resource identifier block started with +.Ic UR . +This is a GNU extension. +.It Ic UR +Begin a uniform resource identifier block. +This is a GNU extension. +It has the following syntax: +.Bd -unfilled -offset indent +.Pf . Ic UR Ar uri +link description to be shown +.Pf . Ic UE +.Ed +.It Ic YS +End a synopsis block started with +.Ic SY . +This is a GNU extension. +.It Ic in +Indent relative to the current indentation: +.Pp +.D1 Pf . Ic in Op Ar width +.Pp +If +.Ar width +is signed, the new offset is relative. +Otherwise, it is absolute. +This value is reset upon the next paragraph, section, or sub-section. +.El +.Sh MACRO SYNTAX +The +.Nm +macros are classified by scope: line scope or block scope. +Line macros are only scoped to the current line (and, in some +situations, the subsequent line). +Block macros are scoped to the current line and subsequent lines until +closed by another block macro. +.Ss Line Macros +Line macros are generally scoped to the current line, with the body +consisting of zero or more arguments. +If a macro is scoped to the next line and the line arguments are empty, +the next line, which must be text, is used instead. +Thus: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.I +foo +.Ed +.Pp +is equivalent to +.Sq .I foo . +If next-line macros are invoked consecutively, only the last is used. +If a next-line macro is followed by a non-next-line macro, an error is +raised. +.Pp +The syntax is as follows: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.\e" current-line syntax +\&.YO \(lBbody ...\(rB + +\&.\e" next-line syntax +\&.YO +body ... +.Ed +.Bl -column -offset indent\ + "Macro" "Arguments" "curr and next" "Version 9 AT&T UNIX" +.It Em Macro Ta Em Arguments Ta Em Line Scope Ta Em Notes +.It Ic AT Ta 0 to 2 Ta current Ta \& +.It Ic B Ta 1 or more Ta curr or next Ta \& +.It Ic BI Ta 2 or more Ta current Ta \& +.It Ic BR Ta 2 or more Ta current Ta \& +.It Ic DT Ta 0 Ta none Ta \& +.It Ic EE Ta 0 Ta none Ta Version 9 At +.It Ic EX Ta 0 Ta none Ta Version 9 At +.It Ic I Ta 1 or more Ta curr or next Ta \& +.It Ic IB Ta 2 or more Ta current Ta \& +.It Ic IR Ta 2 or more Ta current Ta \& +.It Ic MR Ta 2 or 3 Ta current Ta Plan 9 +.It Ic OP Ta 1 or 2 Ta current Ta GNU +.It Ic PD Ta 0 or 1 Ta current Ta \& +.It Ic RB Ta 2 or more Ta current Ta \& +.It Ic RI Ta 2 or more Ta current Ta \& +.It Ic SB Ta 1 or more Ta curr or next Ta \& +.It Ic SM Ta 1 or more Ta curr or next Ta \& +.It Ic TH Ta 3 to 5 Ta current Ta \& +.It Ic UC Ta 0 or 1 Ta current Ta \& +.It Ic in Ta 0 or 1 Ta current Ta Xr roff 7 +.El +.Ss Block Macros +Block macros comprise a head and body. +As with in-line macros, the head is scoped to the current line or, +for some macros, to the next line (the next-line stipulations as in +.Sx Line Macros +apply here as well). +.Pp +The syntax is as follows: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\&.\e" current-line syntax +\&.YO \(lBhead ...\(rB +body ... +\&... + +\&.\e" next-line syntax +\&.YO \(lBhead\(rB +head ... +body ... +\&... +.Ed +.Pp +The closure of body scope may be to the section, where a macro is closed +by +.Ic SH ; +sub-section, closed by a section or +.Ic SS ; +paragraph, closed by a section, sub-section, +.Ic HP , +.Ic IP , +.Ic LP , +.Ic P , +.Ic PP , +.Ic RS , +.Ic SY , +.Ic TP , +or +.Ic TQ ; +or to an explicit block closing macro. +.Pp +As a rule, block macros may not be nested; thus, calling a block macro +while another block macro scope is open, and the open scope is not +implicitly closed, is syntactically incorrect. +.Bl -column -offset indent\ + "Macro" "Arguments" "curr and next" "sub-section" "Notes" +.It Em Macro Ta Em Arguments Ta Em Head Scope Ta Em Body Scope Ta Em Notes +.It Ic HP Ta 0 or 1 Ta current Ta paragraph Ta \& +.It Ic IP Ta 0 to 2 Ta current Ta paragraph Ta \& +.It Ic LP Ta 0 Ta none Ta paragraph Ta \& +.It Ic ME Ta 0 or 1 Ta current Ta none Ta GNU +.It Ic MT Ta 1 Ta current Ta to \&ME Ta GNU +.It Ic P Ta 0 Ta none Ta paragraph Ta \& +.It Ic PP Ta 0 Ta none Ta paragraph Ta \& +.It Ic RE Ta 0 or 1 Ta current Ta none Ta \& +.It Ic RS Ta 0 or 1 Ta current Ta to \&RE Ta \& +.It Ic SH Ta 1 or more Ta curr or next Ta section Ta \& +.It Ic SS Ta 1 or more Ta curr or next Ta sub-section Ta \& +.It Ic SY Ta 1 Ta current Ta to \&YS Ta GNU +.It Ic TP Ta 0 or 1 Ta curr and next Ta paragraph Ta \& +.It Ic TQ Ta 0 or 1 Ta curr and next Ta paragraph Ta GNU +.It Ic UE Ta 0 or 1 Ta current Ta none Ta GNU +.It Ic UR Ta 1 Ta current Ta to \&UE Ta GNU +.It Ic YS Ta 0 Ta none Ta none Ta GNU +.El +.Pp +If a block macro is next-line scoped, it may only be followed by in-line +macros for decorating text. +.Ss Font handling +In +.Nm +documents, both +.Sx Physical markup +macros and +.Xr roff 7 +.Ql \ef +font escape sequences can be used to choose fonts. +In text lines, the effect of manual font selection by escape sequences +only lasts until the next macro invocation; in macro lines, it only lasts +until the end of the macro scope. +Note that macros like +.Ic BR +open and close a font scope for each argument. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr man 1 , +.Xr mandoc 1 , +.Xr eqn 7 , +.Xr mandoc_char 7 , +.Xr mdoc 7 , +.Xr roff 7 , +.Xr tbl 7 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +language first appeared as a macro package for the roff typesetting +system in +.At v7 . +.Pp +The stand-alone implementation that is part of the +.Xr mandoc 1 +utility first appeared in +.Ox 4.6 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +.An Douglas McIlroy Aq Mt m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu +designed and implemented the original version of these macros, +wrote the original version of this manual page, +and was the first to use them when he edited volume 1 of the +.At v7 +manual pages. +.Pp +.An James Clark +later rewrote the macros for groff. +.An Eric S. Raymond Aq Mt esr@thyrsus.com +and +.An Werner Lemberg Aq Mt wl@gnu.org +added the extended +.Nm +macros to groff in 2007. +.Pp +The +.Xr mandoc 1 +program and this +.Nm +reference were written by +.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv . |
