db2x_manxml — Make man pages from Man-XML
db2x_manxml
[options
] [xml-document
]
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.
--encoding=encoding
Select the character encoding used for the output files.
The available encodings are those of
iconv.
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, 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=
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
utf-8//TRANSLIT
--encoding=
processing, which aborts if any untranslatable characters are
encountered.
us-ascii
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 and strncpy 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 program, included with docbook2X, found
under path
.
--iconv-program=path
The location of the iconv program, used for encoding conversions.