db2x_manxml(1)                     docbook2X                    db2x_manxml(1)



NAME
       db2x_manxml - Make man pages from Man-XML

SYNOPSIS
       db2x_manxml [options] [xml-document]

DESCRIPTION
       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.

OPTIONS
       --encoding=encoding
              Select the character encoding used for the output files.  The
              available encodings are those of iconv(1).  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(1), 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=utf-8//TRANSLIT 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 --encoding=us-ascii processing, which
              aborts if any untranslatable characters are encountered.

              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(3) and strncpy(3) 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(1) program,
              included with docbook2X, found under path.

       --iconv-program=path
              The location of the iconv(1) program, used for encoding
              conversions.

NOTES
       The man pages produced should be compatible with most troff
       implementations and other tools that process man pages.  Some
       backwards-compatible groff(1) extensions are used to make the output
       look nicer.

AUTHOR
       Steve Cheng <stevecheng@users.sourceforge.net>.

SEE ALSO
       The docbook2X manual (in Texinfo or HTML format) fully describes how to
       convert DocBook to man pages and Texinfo.

       Up-to-date information about this program can be found at the docbook2X
       Web site <http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/> .

       The input to db2x_manxml is defined by the XML DTD present at
       dtd/Man-XML in the docbook2X distribution.



docbook2X 0.8.8                  3 March 2007                   db2x_manxml(1)
