NAME¶
db2x_manxml - Make man pages from Man-XML
SYNOPSIS¶
db2x_manxml
[
options] [
xml-document]
DESCRIPTION¶
db2x_manxml converts a Man-XML document into one or more man pages. They
are written in the current directory.
If
xml-document is not given, then the document to convert is read from
standard input.
OPTIONS¶
- --encoding=encoding
- Select the character encoding used for the output files.
The available encodings are those of iconv(1). The default encoding
is us-ascii.
The XML source may contain characters that are not representable in the
encoding that you select; in this case the program will bomb out during
processing, and you should choose another encoding. (This is guaranteed
not to happen with any Unicode encoding such as UTF-8, but unfortunately
not everyone is able to process Unicode texts.)
If you are using GNU’s version of iconv(1), you can affix
//TRANSLIT to the end of the encoding name to attempt transliterations of
any unconvertible characters in the output. Beware, however, that the
really inconvertible characters will be turned into another of those
damned question marks. (Aren’t you sick of this?)
The suffix //TRANSLIT applied to a Unicode encoding — in particular,
utf-8//TRANSLIT — means that the output files are to remain in
Unicode, but markup-level character translations using utf8trans
are still to be done. So in most cases, an English-language document,
converted using --encoding=utf-8//TRANSLIT will actually end
up as a US-ASCII document, but any untranslatable characters will remain
as UTF-8 without any warning whatsoever. (Note: strictly speaking this is
not “transliteration”.) This method of conversion is a
compromise over strict --encoding=us-ascii processing, which
aborts if any untranslatable characters are encountered.
Note that man pages and Texinfo documents in non-ASCII encodings (including
UTF-8) may not be portable to older (non-internationalized) systems, which
is why the default value for this option is us-ascii.
To suppress any automatic character mapping or encoding conversion
whatsoever, pass the option --encoding=utf-8.
- --list-files
- Write a list of all the output files to standard output, in
addition to normal processing.
- --output-dir=dir
- Specify the directory where the output files are placed.
The default is the current working directory.
This option is ignored if the output is to be written to standard output
(triggered by the option --to-stdout).
- --to-stdout
- Write the output to standard output instead of to
individual files.
If this option is used even when there are supposed to be multiple output
documents, then everything is concatenated to standard output. But beware
that most other programs will not accept this concatenated output.
This option is incompatible with --list-files, obviously.
- --help
- Show brief usage information and exit.
- --version
- Show version and exit.
Some man pages may be referenced under two or more names, instead of just one.
For example,
strcpy(3) and
strncpy(3) often point to the same
man page which describes the two functions together. Choose one of the
following options to select how such man pages are to be generated:
- --symlinks
- For each of all the alternate names for a man page, erect
symbolic links to the file that contains the real man page content.
- --solinks
- Generate stub pages (using .so roff requests) for the
alternate names, pointing them to the real man page content.
- --no-links
- Do not make any alternative names available. The man page
can only be referenced under its principal name.
This program uses certain other programs for its operation. If they are not in
their default installed locations, then use the following options to set their
location:
- --utf8trans-program=path,
--utf8trans-map= charmap
- Use the character map charmap with the
utf8trans(1) program, included with docbook2X, found under
path.
- --iconv-program=path
- The location of the iconv(1) program, used for
encoding conversions.
NOTES¶
The man pages produced should be compatible with most troff implementations and
other tools that process man pages. Some backwards-compatible
groff(1)
extensions are used to make the output look nicer.
AUTHOR¶
Steve Cheng <stevecheng@users.sourceforge.net>.
SEE ALSO¶
The docbook2X manual (in Texinfo or HTML format) fully describes how to convert
DocBook to man pages and Texinfo.
Up-to-date information about this program can be found at the docbook2X Web site
⟨http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/⟩ .
The input to
db2x_manxml is defined by the XML DTD present at
dtd/Man-XML in the docbook2X distribution.