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.Dd March 30, 2016
.Dt MKD2MAN 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mkd2man
.Nd convert a markdown document into an mdoc manual page
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl h
.Op Fl d Ar date
.Op Fl s Ar section
.Op Fl t Ar title
.Op Ar file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
utility reads
.Ar file
and generates
.Xr mdoc 7
input from markdown source.
If unspecified,
.Ar file
is taken to be standard input.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl d , Fl Fl date
set the document date
.Pq Sq \&Dd
to
.Ar date
.Po
preferrably in
.Qq Month Day, Year
format
.Pc .
If unspecified,
.Nm
uses the file modification date or current date
if reading is from standard input or if
.Xr stat 2
fails.
.It Fl h , Fl Fl help
display help text.
.It Fl s , Fl Fl section
set the document section
.Pq Sq \&Dt
to
.Ar section .
If unspecified,
.Nm
uses
.Ar 1 .
.It Fl t , Fl Fl title
set the document title
.Pq Sq \&Dt
to
.Ar title .
If unspecified,
.Nm
uses the suffix-stripped filename part of
.Ar file .
When reading is from stdin the title must be specified.
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mkd2html 1 ,
.Xr mkd2latex 1 ,
.Xr mdoc 7
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
.Nm
was written by
.An Natasha Qo Kerensikova Qc Porte Aq Mt natacha@instinctive.eu
and
.An Baptiste Daroussin Aq Mt bapt@freebsd.org .
Manual page was originally written by
.An Massimo Manghi Aq Mt mxmanghi@apache.org ,
and rewritten to mdoc format by
.An Svyatoslav Mishyn Aq Mt juef@openmailbox.org .