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17 .Dd $Mdocdate: March 27 2015 $
22 .Nd configuration file for man
24 This is the configuration file
31 Its presence, and all directives, are optional.
33 This file is an ASCII text file.
34 Leading whitespace on lines, lines starting with
36 and blank lines are ignored.
37 Words are separated by whitespace.
38 The first word on each line is the name of a configuration directive.
40 The following directives are supported:
42 .It Ic manpath Ar path
43 Override the default search
50 It can be used multiple times to specify multiple paths,
51 with the order determining the manual page search order.
53 Each path is a tree containing subdirectories
54 whose names consist of the strings
58 followed by the names of sections, usually single digits.
59 The former are supposed to contain unformatted manual pages in
63 format; file names should end with the name of the section
65 The latter should contain preformatted manual pages;
66 file names should end with
73 in each directory configured with
75 is recommended and necessary for
77 to work, but not strictly required for
79 .It Ic output Ar option Op Ar value
80 Configure the default value of an output option.
81 These directives are overridden by the
83 command line options of the same names.
88 .Bl -column fragment integer "ascii, utf8" -compact
89 .It Ar option Ta Ar value Ta used by Fl T Ta purpose
91 .It Ic fragment Ta none Ta Cm html Ta print only body
92 .It Ic includes Ta string Ta Cm html Ta path to header files
93 .It Ic indent Ta integer Ta Cm ascii , utf8 Ta left margin
94 .It Ic man Ta string Ta Cm html Ta path for Xr links
95 .It Ic paper Ta string Ta Cm ps , pdf Ta paper size
96 .It Ic style Ta string Ta Cm html Ta CSS file
97 .It Ic width Ta integer Ta Cm ascii , utf8 Ta right margin
99 .It Ic _whatdb Ar path Ns Cm /whatis.db
100 This directive provides the same functionality as
102 but using a historic and misleading syntax.
103 It is kept for backward compatibility for now,
104 but will eventually be removed.
109 The following configuration file reproduces the defaults:
110 installing it is equivalent to not having a
113 .Bd -literal -offset indent
114 manpath /usr/share/man
115 manpath /usr/X11R6/man
116 manpath /usr/local/man
123 A relatively complicated
125 file format first appeared in
129 it was redesigned from scratch, aiming for simplicity.
131 .An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org