This manual page is for Mac OS X version 10.6.3

If you are running a different version of Mac OS X, view the documentation locally:

  • In Terminal, using the man(1) command

Reading manual pages

Manual pages are intended as a quick reference for people who already understand a technology.

  • For more information about the manual page format, see the manual page for manpages(5).

  • For more information about this technology, look for other documentation in the Apple Reference Library.

  • For general information about writing shell scripts, read Shell Scripting Primer.




mpexpand(n)                                 Documentation toolbox                                mpexpand(n)



____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME
       mpexpand - Markup processor

SYNOPSIS
       mpexpand ?-module module? format infile|- outfile|-mpexpand.all outfile|mpexpand.all

       mpexpand.all ?-verbose? ?module?

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION
       This  manpage  describes  a processor / converter for manpages in the doctools format as specified in
       doctools_fmt. The processor is based upon the package doctools.

       mpexpand ?-module module? format infile|- outfile|-The outfile|The
              The processor takes three arguments, namely the code describing which formatting  to  generate
              as  the  output,  the file to read the markup from, and the file to write the generated output
              into. If the infile is "-" the processor will read from stdin. If outfile is "-" the processor
              will write to stdout.

              If  the  option  -module  is present its value overrides the internal definition of the module
              name.

              The currently known output formats are

              nroff  The processor generates *roff output, the standard format for unix manpages.

              html   The processor generates HTML output, for usage in and display by web browsers.

              tmml   The processor generates TMML output, the Tcl Manpage Markup Language, a  derivative  of
                     XML.

              latex  The processor generates LaTeX output.

              wiki   The processor generates Wiki markup as understood by wikit.

              list   The processor extracts the information provided by manpage_begin.

              null   The processor does not generate any output.

       mpexpand.all ?-verbose? ?module?
              This  command  uses  mpexpand  to generate all possible output formats for all manpages in the
              current directory. The manpages are recognized through the extension ".man".  If  -verbose  is
              specified the command will list its actions before executing them.

              The module information is passed to mpexpand.


NOTES
       Possible future formats are plain text, pdf and postscript.

SEE ALSO
       expander(n), format(n), formatter(n)

KEYWORDS
       HTML, TMML, conversion, manpage, markup, nroff

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2002 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
       Copyright (c) 2003 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>




doctools                                             1.0                                         mpexpand(n)

Reporting Problems

The way to report a problem with this manual page depends on the type of problem:

Content errors
Report errors in the content of this documentation with the feedback links below.
Bug reports
Report bugs in the functionality of the described tool or API through Bug Reporter.
Formatting problems
Report formatting mistakes in the online version of these pages with the feedback links below.

Did this document help you? Yes It's good, but... Not helpful...