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aft(1) General Commands Manual aft(1) NAME
aft - "free form" document preparation system SYNOPSIS
aft [--verbose] [--autonumber] [--output=file | --output=-] [--type=output-type] infile .. DESCRIPTION
AFT is a nearly free format documentation system which can be typed in using any editor or wordprocessor that supports tabs or hard spaces (column-based spaces whose number doesn't shrink or grow based on formatting). By using AFT, you are no longer constrained to one wordpro- cessing file standard (such as Microsoft Word), nor do you have to enter a plethora of weird syntactical incantations of an embedded mark up language (such as LaTeX or HTML). Unlike other mark up languages, AFT is designed to parse and recognize patterns rather than formal commands. That is why there is no single escape or command sequence that tells AFT what to do. In this regard, AFT will process almost anything you throw at it. An AFT document is easily converted into such popular formats as HTML, RTF and LaTeX. Because there are few commands, learning to write a document in AFT requires little effort. This doesn't mean that AFT is not powerful. In fact, this very document was conceived and written using AFT. USAGE
Running AFT is as simple as typing: aft NAME_OF_YOUR_FILE.aft OPTIONS
--verbose Generate a lot of commentary. By default, AFT will just silently process files (unless errors occur). Using this option causes AFT to keep you informed about what it is doing. --autonumber This switch tells AFT to automatically number your sections.--output=file | --output=- This tells AFT where to send its processed output. You can supply a filename (file) or - which tells AFT to write to your standard output (your display or stdout). --type=output_type This tells AFT what type of output to do. For example HTML output is used for html and DocBook output is used for docbook. As a side effect, this will also specify the file name extension for the output file if the --output option isn't specified. infile .. One or more AFT documents to be processed. Almost Free Text 22. April 2003 aft(1)
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mpexpand(1) Documentation toolbox mpexpand(1) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ NAME
mpexpand - Markup processor SYNOPSIS
mpexpand ?-module module? format infile|- outfile|- 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 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 rec- ognized 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(3tcl), format(3tcl), formatter(3tcl) KEYWORDS
HTML, TMML, conversion, manpage, markup, nroff CATEGORY
Documentation tools 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(1)