breaking options
[-h | --help] [-v | --version]
groffer mode options
[--auto] [--default] [--default-modes mode1,mode2,...]
[--dvi] [--groff] [--html] [--latin1]
[--mode display_mode] [--pdf] [--pdf2] [--ps] [--source]
[--text] [--to-stdout] [--tty] [--utf8] [--viewer prog]
[--www] [--xhtml] [--x | --X]
options related to groff
[-T | --device device]
[-Z | --intermediate-output | --ditroff]
All further groff short options are accepted.
options for man pages
[--apropos] [--apropos-data] [--apropos-devel]
[--apropos-progs] [--man] [--no-man] [--no-special]
[--whatis]
long options taken over from GNU man
[--all] [--ascii] [--ditroff] [--extension suffix]
[--locale language] [--local-file] [--location | --where]
[--manpath dir1:dir2:...] [--no-location]
[--pager program] [--sections sec1:sec2:...]
[--systems sys1,sys2,...] [--troff-device device]
Further long options of GNU man are accepted as well.
options mapped to X Window System Toolkit Intrinsics options
[--bd | --bordercolor pixels] [--bg | --background color]
[--bw | --borderwidth pixels] [--display X-display]
[--fg | --foreground color]
[--fn | --ft | --font font_name] [--geometry size_pos]
[--resolution value] [--rv] [--title string]
[--xrm X-resource]
options for development
[--debug] [--debug-filenames] [--debug-grog]
[--debug-keep] [--debug-params] [--debug-tmpdir]
[--do-nothing] [--print text] [-V]
filespec arguments
The filespec parameters are all arguments that are neither
an option nor an option argument. They usually mean a
file name or a man page searching scheme.
In the following, the term section_extension is used. It
means a word that consists of a man section that is
optionally followed by an extension. The name of a man
section is a single character from [1–9on], the extension
is some word. The extension is mostly lacking.
No filespec parameters means standard input.
- stands for standard input (can occur several
times).
filename
the path name of an existing file.
man:name(section_extension)
man:name.section_extension
name(section_extension)
name.section_extension
section_extension name
search the man page name in the section with
optional extension section_extension.
man:name
man page in the lowest man section that has name.
name if name is not an existing file search for the
man page name in the lowest man section.
