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diff --git a/textproc/mdoclint/files/mdoclint.1 b/textproc/mdoclint/files/mdoclint.1 new file mode 100755 index 00000000000..0c51b88aaf8 --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/mdoclint/files/mdoclint.1 @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: mdoclint.1,v 1.5 2008/11/23 17:07:36 jmc Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: mdoclint.1,v 1.1.1.1 2009/03/01 21:25:39 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2008 Thomas Klausner +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR, THOMAS KLAUSNER, +.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED +.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR +.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF +.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS +.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN +.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) +.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE +.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd November 21, 2008 +.Dt MDOCLINT 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mdoclint +.Nd man page verifier +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Fl aDdeFfHhmnoPprSsvXx +.Ar +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +is a man page verifier. +It tries to automatically find as many common +errors that occur when writing man pages as possible. +If no flags are given, +.Fl aDdefHmnoPprSsXx +is assumed (that is, everything except +.Fl Fhv ) . +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width xxxx -compact +.It Fl a +Warn about some possible problems in the +.Sx SEE ALSO +section, like incorrect order (correct order: first by section +numbers, then by name), or incorrect or superfluous punctuation +between or after the cross-references. +.It Fl D +Warn about bad casing and architectures in the .Dt macro. +.It Fl d +Warn about bad date strings (in the .Dd macro). +.It Fl e +Warn about unsorted errors (for functions). +.It Fl F +Fix whitespace problems (see also +.Fl s ) . +.It Fl f +Warn about possible .Fn abuse; its arguments should be put in +.Sq \&" +separately, not together and separated by commas. +Those will be automatically added by mdoc. +.It Fl H +Show warnings for characters that might generate problems in +HTML output: +.Sq \*[Lt] , +.Sq \*[Gt] , +and +.Sq \*[Am] . +Replace a pair of angle quotes with the .Aq macro. +Otherwise, the replacements are +.Dq \e*[Lt] , +.Dq \e*[Gt] , +and +.Dq \e*[Am] . +.It Fl h +Display usage. +.It Fl m +Warn if man page is not in +.Xr mdoc 7 +format. +.It Fl n +Warn when the .Nd macro's argument ends in a dot, that is +.Sq \&. . +.It Fl o +Warn when the .Os macro has an argument (it shouldn't have one at +least in the base system, because on +.Nx +the current version is default). +.It Fl P +Warn about paragraph problems, like empty lines or .Pp macros before +section macros like .Ss and .Sh. +.It Fl p +Warn about possible punctuation problems at the end of macro arguments, +abuse of .Ns to get punctuation directly next to a word, +and sentences not starting on a new line. +.It Fl r +Warn about missing RCS Id. +.It Fl S +Warn about any unknown sections or about a section that comes in the +wrong order (see +.Xr mdoc 7 ) . +.It Fl s +Warn about superfluous whitespace at the end of line. +.It Fl v +Verbose output. +.It Fl X +Warn about explicit mentions of the words +.Dq FreeBSD , +.Dq NetBSD , +and +.Dq OpenBSD , +which should be replaced by .Fx, .Nx, and .Ox respectively. +Also notices occurrences of +.Dq \&.Bx Free , +.Dq \&.Bx Net , +and +.Dq \&.Bx Open , +for which the same applies. +.It Fl x +Warn about cross-references whose target is missing, cross-references +to itself, or plain bogus cross-references. +.Pp +For +.Dq .Xr name X , +the following files are checked: +.Pa /usr/share/man/manX/name.X , +.Pa /usr/share/man/manX/`uname -m`/name.X , +and +.Pa ./name.X . +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr mdoc 7 , +.Xr mdoc.samples 7 +.Sh AUTHORS +.An Thomas Klausner +.Aq wiz@netbsd.org +.Sh BUGS +The +.Fl o +and +.Fl p +flags currently produce too many bogus warnings. +.Pp +The +.Fl x +flag sometimes erroneously warns about xrefs to man pages for +machine-dependent drivers that are not for the architecture +.Nm +is running on. |