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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-09-26 12:54:40 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-09-26 12:54:40 +0000
commit141ed44cd618e7a44a19fd86eadd1879a5bd6cd4 (patch)
tree9e01581096d9a3a9356053d584bf00750f80a44e /usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1
parent79dd88da372398a473efba97aca5b86e6249f7be (diff)
briefly document -T tree output
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: mandoc.1,v 1.84 2015/09/14 15:35:47 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: mandoc.1,v 1.85 2015/09/26 12:54:39 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014, 2015 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 14 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 26 2015 $
.Dt MANDOC 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -284,6 +284,8 @@ See
.Sx PostScript Output .
.It Fl T Cm tree
Produce an indented parse tree.
+See
+.Sx Syntax tree output .
.It Fl T Cm utf8
Encode output in the UTF\-8 multi-byte format.
See
@@ -490,6 +492,44 @@ to force a UTF\-8 locale.
See
.Sx Locale Output
for details and options.
+.Ss Syntax tree output
+Use
+.Fl T Cm tree
+to show a human readable representation of the syntax tree.
+It is useful for debugging the source code of manual pages.
+The exact format is subject to change, don't write parsers for it.
+Each output line shows one syntax tree node.
+Child nodes are indented with respect to their parent node.
+The columns are:
+.Pp
+.Bl -enum -compact
+.It
+For macro nodes, the macro name; for text and
+.Xr tbl 7
+nodes, the content. There is a special format for
+.Xr eqn 7
+nodes.
+.It
+Node type (text, elem, block, head, body, body-end, tail, tbl, eqn).
+.It
+Flags:
+.Bl -dash -compact
+.It
+An opening parenthesis if the node is an opening delimiter.
+.It
+An asterisk if the node starts a new input line.
+.It
+The input line number (starting at one).
+.It
+A colon.
+.It
+The input column number (starting at one).
+.It
+A closing parenthesis if the node is a closing delimiter.
+.It
+A full stop if the node ends a sentence.
+.El
+.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Bl -tag -width MANPAGER
.It Ev MANPAGER