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 doc-
	      ument, 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 con-
	      version 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-international-
	      ized) 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 gen-
       erated:

       --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-compat-
       ible 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)