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NAME

       docbook2x-man - Convert DocBook to man pages

SYNOPSIS

       docbook2x-man [options] xml-document

DESCRIPTION

       docbook2x-man converts the given DocBook XML document into man pages.  By default, the man
       pages will be output to the current directory.

       Only the refentry content in the DocBook  document  is  converted.   (To  convert  content
       outside of a refentry, stylesheet customization is required. See the docbook2X package for
       details.)

       The docbook2x-man command is a wrapper script for a two-step conversion process.  See  the
       section “CONVERSION PROCESS” below for details.

OPTIONS

       The  available  options are essentially the union of the options from db2x_xsltproc(1) and
       db2x_manxml(1).

       Some commonly-used options are listed below:

       --encoding=encoding
              Sets the character encoding of the output.

       --string-param parameter=value
              Sets a stylesheet parameter (options  that  affect  how  the  output  looks).   See
              “Stylesheet parameters” below for the parameters that can be set.

       --sgml Accept an SGML source document as input instead of XML.

       --solinks
              Make stub pages for alternate names for an output man page.

   STYLESHEET PARAMETERS
       uppercase-headings
              Brief. Make headings uppercase?

              Default setting. 1 (boolean true)

              Headings in man page content should be or should not be uppercased.

       manvolnum-cite-numeral-only
              Brief. Man page section citation should use only the number

              Default setting. 1 (boolean true)

              When citing other man pages, the man-page section is either given as is, or has the
              letters stripped from it, citing only the number of the section  (e.g.  section  3x
              becomes 3). This option specifies which style.

       quotes-on-literals
              Brief. Display quotes on literal elements?

              Default setting. 0 (boolean false)

              If true, render literal elements with quotes around them.

       show-comments
              Brief. Display comment elements?

              Default setting. 1 (boolean true)

              If  true, comments will be displayed, otherwise they are suppressed.  Comments here
              refers to the comment element, which will be renamed remark in  DocBook  V4.0,  not
              XML comments (<-- like this -->) which are unavailable.

       function-parens
              Brief. Generate parentheses after a function?

              Default setting. 0 (boolean false)

              If true, the formatting of a <function> element will include generated parenthesis.

       xref-on-link
              Brief. Should link generate a cross-reference?

              Default setting. 1 (boolean true)

              Man pages cannot render the hypertext links created by link. If this option is set,
              then the stylesheet renders a cross reference to the target of the link.  (This may
              reduce clutter). Otherwise, only the content of the link is rendered and the actual
              link itself is ignored.

       header-3
              Brief. Third header text

              Default setting. (blank)

              Specifies the text of the third header of a man page, typically the  date  for  the
              man page. If empty, the date content for the refentry is used.

       header-4
              Brief. Fourth header text

              Default setting. (blank)

              Specifies  the  text of the fourth header of a man page.  If empty, the refmiscinfo
              content for the refentry is used.

       header-5
              Brief. Fifth header text

              Default setting. (blank)

              Specifies the text of the fifth header of a man page.  If empty, the ‘manual name’,
              that is, the title of the book or reference container is used.

       default-manpage-section
              Brief. Default man page section

              Default setting. 1

              The source document usually indicates the sections that each man page should belong
              to (with manvolnum in refmeta). In case the source document does not indicate  man-
              page sections, this option specifies the default.

       custom-localization-file
              Brief. URI of XML document containing custom localization data

              Default setting. (blank)

              This parameter specifies the URI of a XML document that describes text translations
              (and other locale-specific information) that is needed by the stylesheet to process
              the DocBook document.

              The text translations pointed to by this parameter always override the default text
              translations (from the internal  parameter  localization-file).   If  a  particular
              translation is not present here, the corresponding default translation is used as a
              fallback.

              This parameter is primarily for changing certain  punctuation  characters  used  in
              formatting  the source document.  The settings for punctuation characters are often
              specific to the source document, but can also be dependent on the locale.

              To not use custom text translations, leave this parameter as the empty string.

       custom-l10n-data
              Brief. XML document containing custom localization data

              Default setting. document($custom-localization-file)

              This parameter specifies the XML document that  describes  text  translations  (and
              other  locale-specific information) that is needed by the stylesheet to process the
              DocBook document.

              This parameter is internal to the stylesheet.  To point to an external XML document
              with  a  URI  or a file name, you should use the custom-localization-file parameter
              instead.

              However, inside a custom stylesheet (not on the command-line) this parameter can be
              set  to the XPath expression document(''), which will cause the custom translations
              directly embedded inside the custom stylesheet to be read.

       author-othername-in-middle
              Brief. Is othername in author a middle name?

              Default setting. 1

              If true, the othername of an author appears  between  the  firstname  and  surname.
              Otherwise, othername is suppressed.

EXAMPLES

       $ docbook2x-man --solinks manpages.xml
       $ docbook2x-man --solinks --encoding=utf-8//TRANSLIT manpages.xml
       $ docbook2x-man --string-param header-4="Free Recode 3.6" document.xml
       .fi

CONVERSION PROCESS

   Converting to man pages
       DocBook documents are converted to man pages in two steps:

       1.  The  DocBook source is converted by a XSLT stylesheet into an intermediate XML format,
           Man-XML.

           Man-XML is simpler than DocBook and closer to the man page format; it is  intended  to
           make the stylesheets’ job easier.

           The  stylesheet  for  this  purpose  is  in xslt/man/docbook.xsl.  For portability, it
           should always be referred to by the following URI:

           http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/latest/xslt/man/docbook.xsl

           Run this stylesheet with db2x_xsltproc(1).

           Customizing.  You can also customize the output by creating your own XSLT stylesheet —
           changing parameters or adding new templates — and importing xslt/man/docbook.xsl.

       2.  Man-XML is converted to the actual man pages by db2x_manxml(1).

       The  docbook2x-man  command  does both steps automatically, but if any problems occur, you
       can see the errors more clearly if you do each step separately:

       $ db2x_xsltproc -s man mydoc.xml -o mydoc.mxml
       $ db2x_manxml mydoc.mxml
       .fi

       Options to the conversion stylesheet are described in
       the man-pages stylesheets
       reference.

       Pure XSLT conversion.
       An alternative to the db2x_manxml Perl script is the XSLT
       stylesheet in
       xslt/backend/db2x_manxml.xsl.
       This stylesheet performs a similar function
       of converting Man-XML to actual man pages.
       It is useful if you desire a pure XSLT
       solution to man-page conversion.
       Of course, the quality of the conversion using this stylesheet
       will never be as good as the Perl db2x_manxml,
       and it runs slower.
       In particular, the pure XSLT version
       currently does not support tables in man pages,
       but its Perl counterpart does.

   Character set conversion
       When translating XML to legacy ASCII-based formats with poor support for Unicode, such  as
       man  pages  and Texinfo, there is always the problem that Unicode characters in the source
       document also have to be translated somehow.

       A straightforward character set conversion from Unicode  does  not  suffice,  because  the
       target  character  set,  usually US-ASCII or ISO Latin-1, do not contain common characters
       such as dashes and directional quotation marks that are widely used in XML documents.  But
       document  formatters  (man  and  Texinfo)  allow such characters to be entered by a markup
       escape: for example, \(lq for the left directional quote “.  And if a markup-level  escape
       is  not  available,  an  ASCII transliteration might be used: for example, using the ASCII
       less-than sign < for the angle quotation mark ⟨.

       So the Unicode character problem can be solved in two steps:

       1.  utf8trans(1), a program included in docbook2X, maps Unicode characters to markup-level
           escapes or transliterations.

           Since  there  is  not  necessarily  a  fixed,  official mapping of Unicode characters,
           utf8trans can read in user-modifiable character mappings expressed in text  files  and
           apply them. (Unlike most character set converters.)

           In charmaps/man/roff.charmap and charmaps/man/texi.charmap are character maps that may
           be used  for  man-page  and  Texinfo  conversion.   The  programs  db2x_manxml(1)  and
           db2x_texixml(1) will apply these character maps, or another character map specified by
           the user, automatically.

       2.  The rest of the Unicode text is converted to some other character set (encoding).  For
           example,  a French document with accented characters (such as é) might be converted to
           ISO Latin 1.

           This step is applied after utf8trans character mapping, using  the  iconv(1)  encoding
           conversion   tool.    Both   db2x_manxml(1)  and  db2x_texixml(1)  can  call  iconv(1)
           automatically when producing their output.

FILES

       /usr/local/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/docbook.xsl
       /usr/local/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/db2x_manxml.xsl
       /usr/local/share/docbook2X/xslt/catalog.xml
       /usr/local/share/docbook2X/charmaps/roff.charmap
       /usr/local/share/docbook2X/charmaps/roff.charmap.xml

       The above files are distributed and installed by the docbook2X package.

NOTES

       The docbook2x-man or the docbook2texi command described in this manual page come from  the
       docbook2X  package.   It should not be confused with the command of the same name from the
       obsoleted docbook-utils package.

LIMITATIONS

       • Internally there is one long pipeline of programs which your document goes  through.  If
         any  segment of the pipeline fails (even trivially, like from mistyped program options),
         the resulting errors can be difficult to decipher  —  in  this  case,  try  running  the
         components of docbook2X separately.

AUTHOR

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

SEE ALSO

       db2x_xsltproc(1), db2x_manxml(1), utf8trans(1)

       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/⟩ .