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BSD mandoc
NAME
man.conf
- configuration file for man
DESCRIPTION
This is the configuration file
for the
man(1),
apropos(1),
and
makewhatis(8)
utilities.
Its presence, and all directives, are optional.
This file is an ASCII text file.
Leading whitespace on lines, lines starting with
`#'
and blank lines are ignored.
Words are separated by whitespace.
The first word on each line is the name of a configuration directive.
The following directives are supported:
- manpath path
-
Override the default search
path
for
man(1),
apropos(1),
and
makewhatis(8).
It can be used multiple times to specify multiple paths,
with the order determining the manual page search order.
Each path is a tree containing subdirectories
whose names consist of the strings
`man'
and/or
`cat'
followed by the names of sections, usually single digits.
The former are supposed to contain unformatted manual pages in
mdoc(7)
and/or
man(7)
format; file names should end with the name of the section
preceded by a dot.
The latter should contain preformatted manual pages;
file names should end with
`.0'
Creating a
mandoc.db5
database with
makewhatis(8)
in each directory configured with
manpath
is recommended and necessary for
apropos(1)
to work, and also for
man(1)
on operating systems like
Ox that install each manual page with only one file name in the file system,
even if it documents multiple utilities or functions.
- output option [value
]
-
Configure the default value of an output option.
These directives are overridden by the
-O
command line options of the same names.
For details, see the
mandoc(1)
manual.
- option Ta value Ta used by -T Ta purpose
-
- Ta Ta Ta
- fragment Ta none Ta html Ta print only body
-
-
- includes Ta string Ta html Ta path to header files
-
- indent Ta integer Ta ascii , utf8 Ta left margin
-
- man Ta string Ta html Ta path for links
-
- paper Ta string Ta ps , pdf Ta paper size
-
- style Ta string Ta html Ta CSS file
-
- toc Ta none Ta html Ta print table of contents
-
- width Ta integer Ta ascii , utf8 Ta right margin
-
FILES
- /etc/man.conf
-
EXAMPLES
The following configuration file reproduces the defaults:
installing it is equivalent to not having a
file at all.
manpath /usr/share/man
manpath /usr/X11R6/man
manpath /usr/local/man
SEE ALSO
apropos(1),
man(1),
makewhatis(8)
HISTORY
A relatively complicated
file format first appeared in
BSD 4.3 Reno
For
Ox 5.8 ,
it was redesigned from scratch, aiming for simplicity.
AUTHORS
An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org
Index
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- DESCRIPTION
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- FILES
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- EXAMPLES
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- SEE ALSO
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- HISTORY
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