NAME
mkd2man – convert a markdown document into an mdoc manual page
SYNOPSIS
mkd2man [-h] [-d date] [-s section] [-t title] [file]
DESCRIPTION
mkd2man utility reads file and generates mdoc(7) input from markdown source. If unspecified, file is taken to be standard input.
The options are as follows:
- -d, --date
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set the document date (‘Dd’) to date( preferrably in "Month Day, Year" format). If unspecified, mkd2man uses the file modification date or current date if reading is from standard input or if stat(2) fails.
- -h, --help
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display help text.
- -s, --section
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set the document section (‘Dt’) to section. If unspecified, mkd2man uses 1.
- -t, --title
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set the document title (‘Dt’) to title. If unspecified, mkd2man uses the suffix-stripped filename part of file. When reading is from stdin the title must be specified.
EXIT STATUS
The mkd2man utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
mkd2html(1), mkd2latex(1), mdoc(7)
AUTHORS
mkd2man was written by Natasha "Kerensikova" Porte ⟨[email protected]⟩ and Baptiste Daroussin ⟨[email protected]⟩. Manual page was originally written by Massimo Manghi ⟨[email protected]⟩, and rewritten to mdoc format by Svyatoslav Mishyn ⟨[email protected]⟩.