---
name: "mencal"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mencal"
version: "3.0-6"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mencal"
---

# mencal(1)

menstruation calendar

## NAME

mencal - menstruation calendar

## SYNOPSIS

**mencal** \[*options*\] \[*file1 file2* ... *-c CONF1 -c CONF2* ...\]

## DESCRIPTION

### Display options:

- **-m**, **--monday**

  draw monday as first weekday (sunday is default)

- **-1**

  current month (default)

- **-3**

  previous, current and next month

- **-y** \[YYYY\]

  all-year calendar (default YYYY is current year)

- **-q**, **--quiet**

  no top information will be printed

- **-n**, **--nocolor**

  noncolored output

- **-i**, **--icolor** COLOR

  intersection color (default red)

-

  available colors: red, green, blue, yellow, violet, cyan, shiny, bold

### mencal configuration:

- **-c**, **--config**

  s=\[YYYY\]MMDD,l=LL,d=DD,n=NAME,f=FILE,c=COLOR

-

  The second argument is a comma separated list of options. No spaces are allowed in this list. If no name is specified, 'Unknown' is used. Various **-c** options or filenames can be set.

- s,start=\[YYYY\]MMDD

  start day of period (default current day)

- l,length=LL

  length of period in days (default 28)

- d,duration=D

  duration of menstruation in days (default 4)

- n,name=NAME

  name of subject

- f,file=FILE

  filename to save configuration to (see section FILES)

-

  only menstruation related variables will be saved

- c,color=COLOR

  color used for menstruation days

-

  available colors: red, green, blue, yellow, violet, cyan, shiny, bold default color is red, with '-n' switch color settings are ignored

### Info options:

- **-h**, **--help**

  print help

- **-V**, **--version**

  print version information

## FILES:

**$HOME/.mencalrc** - the default configuration file that is automatically loaded

## AUTHOR:

*(C) 2002 C. McCohy*\
 e-mail: \<mccohy@kyberdigi.cz\>\
 Word-Wide-Web: http://www.kyberdigi.cz/projects/mencal/english

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page (but may be used by others).

## HISTORY

22 March 2002 - Originally written by Amaya Rodrigo \<amaya@debian.org\>.\
 24 Apr 2002 - New manpage contributed by Pablo S. Torralba \<psanchez@skyrealms.org\>.\
 Amaya Rodrigo \<amaya@debian.org\> is now responsible for developing and maintaining this manual page. Comments and suggestions are greatly welcome.