LATEX2MAN(1)                 Documentation Tools                  LATEX2MAN(1)



NAME
       Latex2man  is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX-
       into a format understood by  the  UNIX  man(1)-command.   Alternatively
       HTML,  TexInfo,  or LaTeX code can be produced too.  Output of parts of
       the text may be suppressed using  the  conditional  text  feature  (for
       this, LaTeX generation may be used).


SYNOPSIS
       latex2man [-ttransfile] [-HMTL] [-h] [-V] [-Cname] [-achar] infile out-
       file


DESCRIPTION
       Latex2man reads the file infile and writes outfile.  The input must  be
       a  LaTeX  document  using the latex2man LaTeXpackage.  Latex2man trans-
       lates that document into the troff(1) format using the -man macro pack-
       age.

       Using the -H option, HTML code can be produced, instead of troff(1).

       Using the -T option, TexInfo code can be produced, instead of troff(1).

       Using the -M option, troff(1) input is produced.

       Using the -L option, LaTeX ouput can be produced, instead of  troff(1).


OPTIONS
       -ttransfile
               Translation for user defined LaTeX macros.

       -M      Produce output suitable for the man(1) command (default).

       -H       Instead  of  producing output suitable for the man(1) command,
              HTML code is produced (despite the name of the command).

       -T      Instead of producing output suitable for  the  man(1)  command,
              TexInfo  code is produced (despite the name of the command). The
              generated .texi-file may be processed with makeinfo(1) (to  pro-
              duce  an  .info-file)  which  in  turn  may  be  installed using
              install-info(1).  The Info tags @dircategory and  @direntry  are
              provided.

       -L       The LaTeX source is written to the outfile.  This is useful in
              conjunction with the -Cname option.

       -Cname  Output the conditional text for name.  If more  than  one  name
              should be given use quotes: -C'name1 name2 ...'
              The following names are defined automatically:

              *      -H defines HTML

              *      -T defines TEXI

              *      -M defines MAN

              *      -L defines LATEX


       -achar  Is used only in conjunction with -T.
              Background:
              TexInfo  ignores all blanks before the first word on a new line.
              In order to produce  some  additional  space  before  that  word
              (using  \SP)  some  character has to be printed before the addi-
              tional space. By default this is a . (dot). The  char  specifies
              an  alternative  for  that first character. Giving a blank to -a
              supresses the indentation of a line.
              Note: only for the first \SP of a series that char is printed.

       -h      Show a help text.

       -V      Show version information.


FILES
       latex2man.tex
               The LaTeX file containing this Man-page.

       latex2man.sty
               The LaTeX package defining the environments and commands.

       latex2man.cfg
               The configuration file for Latex2man LaTeX-package.

       latex2man.trans
               File containing example  translations  of  user  defined  LaTeX
              macros.

       fancyheadings.sty
               A LaTeX package used to typeset head- and foot lines.

       fancyhdr.sty
               A LaTeX package used to typeset head- and foot lines.

       rcsinfo.sty
               A  LaTeX  package  used  to extract and use RCS version control
              information in LaTeX documents.


SEE ALSO
       LaTeX,TexInfo, troff(1), groff(1), makeinfo(1).


LaTeX COMMANDS
       The LaTeX package  latex2man  is  used  to  write  the  Man-pages  with
       LaTeX.Since  we  translate into other text formats, not all LaTeX stuff
       can be translated.


   PACKAGE OPTIONS
       The latex2man package accepts the following options:


       fancy  use the LaTeX package fancyheadings.

       fancyhdr
              use the LaTeX package fancyhdr.

       nofancy
              neither the LaTeX package fancyheadings nor fancyhdr are used.

       The default option may be specified in the file latex2man.cfg.


   PACKAGE SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTS
       The following environments are provided by the package:

       \begin{Name}{chapter}{name}{author}{info}{title}
              The Name environment takes  five  arguments:  1.   the  Man-page
              chapter,  2.  the name of the Man-page, 3.  the author, 4.  some
              short information about the tool printed in the footline of  the
              Man-page,  and  5.   a text which is used as title, for HTML and
              LaTeX (it's ignored for output of the Man-page or  TeXinfo.  The
              Name  environment must be the first environment in the document.
              Processing starts with this environment. Any text before this is
              ignored (exception: the setVersion and setDate commands). (Note:
              all arguments of \begin{Name} must be written on one line).

       \begin{Table}[width]{columns}
              The Table environment takes two arguments:  the  first  optional
              one  specifies  a width of the last column, the second one gives
              the number of columns.  For example:

       \begin{Table}[2cm]{3}
       Here & am & I \\\hline
       A 1 & A 2 & A 3 1 2 3 4 5 A 3 1 2 3 4 5 \\
       B 1 & B 2 & B 3 \\
       \end{Table}

       will be typeset as:


       Here   am    I
       ----------------------
       A 1    A 2   A 3 1  2
                    3  4 5 A
                    3 1 2  3
                    4 5
       B 1    B 2   B 3

       If  no  optional  width argument is given, all entries are typeset left
       justified.  The width is a length measured absolutly in cm.  Processing
       with LaTeX a p{width} column is typeset as last column. The translation
       to troff(1) commands  results  in  a  lw(width)  column  specification.
       Translating to HTML and TexInfo ignores the width parameter.

       \hline may be used.

       If  the  Man-page  is  formatted with troff(1) and tables are used, the
       tbl(1) preprocessor should be called, usually by giving  a  -t  to  the
       call of troff(1).  When viewing the generated manula page using man(1),
       tbl(1) is called automatically.

       \begin{Description}
              is the same as \begin{description}

       \begin{Description}[label]
              is similar to \begin{description}, but the item labels  have  at
              minimum  the  size of the (optional) word label.  The difference
              is visible only in the DVI and PDF-output,  not  in  the  troff,
              TexInfo or HTML output.

              a      |a \begin{description}

              ab     |ab

              abc    |abc


              a      |a \begin{Description}

              ab     |ab

              abc    |abc


              a      |a \begin{Description}[aa]

              ab     |ab

              abc    |abc



   ACCEPTED LaTeX ENVIRONMENTS
       The following environments are accepted:

       *      description

       *      enumerate

       *      itemize

       *      verbatim

       *      center

       They may be nested:

       *      Itemize and nested center:
                                      A centered line.
                                   Another centered line.


       *      Another item an nested enumerate

              1.     a

              2.     b



   PACKAGE SPECIFIC MACROS
       The following commands are provided:

       \Opt{option}
              Option: \Opt{-o} will be typeset as -o.

       \Arg{argument}
              Argument: \Arg{filename} will be typeset as filename.

       \OptArg{option}{argument}
              Option with Argument:
              \OptArg{-o}{filename} will be typeset as -ofilename.

       \OptoArg{option}{argument}
              Option with optional Argument:
              \OptoArg{-o}{filename} will be typeset as -o[filename].

       \oOpt{option}
              Optional option, e.g.  \oOpt{-o} will be typeset as [-o].

       \oArg{argument}
              Optional  argument,  e.g.   \oArg{filename}  will  be typeset as
              [filename].

       \oOptArg{option}{argument}
              Optional option with argument, e.g.
              \oOptArg{-o}{filename} will be typeset as [-ofilename].

       \oOptoArg{option}{argument}
              Optional   option   with   optional   argument,   e.g.     \oOp-
              toArg{-o}{filename} will be typeset as [-o[filename]].

       \File{filename}
              used to typeset filenames, e.g.  \File{filename} will be typeset
              as filename.

       \Prog{prog}
              used to typeset program names, e.g.   \Prog{latex2man}  will  be
              typeset as latex2man.

       \Cmd{command}{chapter}
              used   to   typeset   references   to   other   commands,   e.g.
              \Cmd{latex2man}{1} will be typeset as latex2man(1).

       \Bar   is typeset as |.

       \Bs    (BackSlash) is typeset as \.

       \Tilde is typeset as a ~.

       \Dots  is typeset as ...


       \Bullet
              us typeset as *.

       \setVersion{..}
              set .. as version information.

       \setVersionWord{..}
              set .. for the word Version: in the  footline.  The  default  is
              \setVersionWord{Version:}.

       \Version
              returns the version information.

       \setDate{..}
              sets .. as date information.

       \Date  returns the date information.

       \Email{..}
              use to mark an Email address:
              \Email{Juergen.Vollmer@informatik-vollmer.de} is typeset as:
              Juergen.Vollmer@informatik-vollmer.de.

       \URL{..}
              use  to  mark  an URL: \URL{http://www.foo.de/\Tilde vollmer} is
              typeset as http://www.foo.de/~vollmer.

       \LatexManEnd
              the input file is read and processed until  reading  end-of-file
              or \LatexManEnd (at the beginning of a line).  LaTeXignores this
              command.

       \Lbr, \Rbr
              is typeset as [ and ] (these variants are needed  only  somtimes
              like in item[FooBar\LBr xx \Lbr]. Usually [ ] will work.

       \LBr, \RBr
              is typeset as { and } (these variants are needed when using { or
              } as arguments to macros.

       \Circum
              is typeset as ^.

       \Percent
              is typeset as %.

       \TEXbr If processed with LaTeX causes a linebreak (i.e.  is  equivalent
              to \\).In the output of latex2man this macro is ignored.

       \TEXIbr
              If  TexInfo  output  is  generated, causes a linebreak (i.e.  is
              equivalent to \\),otherwise ignored.

       \MANbr If Man-Page output is generated, causes a  linebreak  (i.e.   is
              equivalent to \\),otherwise ignored.

       \HTMLbr
              If HTML output is generated, causes a linebreak (i.e.  is equiv-
              alent to \\),otherwise ignored.

       \medskip
              An empty line.

       \SP    Produces some extra space, works also at the beginning of lines.
              The code of the second line looks like: \SP abc \SP\SP xx\\:
              abc    xx
               abc   xx
                abc  xx

       Note:  Due  to  some ``problems'' with TexInfo, the lines starting with
       \SP have a leading . (dot) in the TexInfo output, see -achar.


   ACCEPTED MACROS FROM THE RCSINFO PACKAGE
       \rcsInfo $Id ...$
              if the LaTeX package rcsinfo is used, this command  is  used  to
              extract the date of the Man-page.

       \rcsInfoLongDate
              if  the  LaTeX  package rcsinfo is used, this command is used to
              typeset the date coded in the $Id ..$ string.


   ACCEPTED LaTeX MACROS
       The following standard LaTeX commands are accepted:

       \section{..}
              The section macro takes one argument: the name of  the  Man-page
              section.  Each  Man-page  consists of several sections.  Usually
              there are the following sections in a  Man-page:  Name  (special
              handling  as  environment,  c.f.  above), Synopsis, Description,
              Options, Files, See  Also,  Diagnostics,  Return  Values,  Bugs,
              Author, version, etc.

       Synopsis must be the first section after the Name environment.

       Note: Do not use LaTeX-macrosin section names.

       \subsection{..}
              works as well as

       \subsubsection{..}
              those.

       \emph{..}
              \emph{example} is typeset as example.

       \textbf{..}
              \textbf{example} is typeset as example.

       \texttt{..}
              \textt{example} is typeset as example.

       \underline{..}
              \underline{example} is typeset as example of underline .

       \date{..}
              uses .. as date.

       \verb+..+
              but only + is allowed as delimiter.

       $<$ is typeset as <.

       $>$ is typeset as >.

       $<=$ is typeset as <=.

       $>=$ is typeset as >=.

       $=$ is typeset as =.

       $<>$ is typeset as <>.

       $\ge$  is typeset as $>=$.

       $\le$  is typeset as $<=$.

       $\leftarrow$
              is typeset as $<--$.

       $\Leftarrow$
              is typeset as $<==$.

       $\rightarrow$
              is typeset as $-->$.

       $\Rightarrow$
              is typeset as $==>$.

       \{ is typeset as {.

       \} is typeset as }.

       \$ is typeset as $.

       \$ is typeset as $,should be used inside macro
              arguments.

       \_ is typeset as _.

       \& is typeset as &.

       \# is typeset as #.

       \% is typeset as %.

       \,     is typeset as smaller blank - - (between the two -)

       \-     is used to mark hyphenation in a word.

       \\ is typeset as a linebreak or marks the end of a column in the
              Table environment.

       \ (a \ followed by a blank) is typeset as a blank,
              although  it  cannot  be used at the beginning of a line to make
              indentation (see the \SP command).

       ~ is typeset as a blank.

       \copyright
              is typeset as (C).

       \noindent

       \hline inside a Table environment.

       \item  inside a itemize, enumerate, or description environment.

       \today 11 November 2008(see also the rcsinfo LaTeXpackage).

       \ss,\"a, ...
              \ss = , \"a= , \"o= , \"u= , \"A= , \"O= , \"U= .  It  is
              allowed  to surround these macros in { and } in all places, even
              inside other macros, e.g.
                   \textbf{\"a\"o\"u\"A\"O\"U\ss}
                   \textbf{\"a}{\"o}{\"u}{\"A}{\"O}{\"U}{\ss}}
                   \textbf{}


         

       If these letters are used in  their  LATIN-1  8-bit  coding,  they  are
       translated  into  the  equivalent  letter of the desired output format.
       E.g.  becomes &Auml; in HTML and @"A in texinfo.


   CONDITIONAL TEXT
       latex2man preprocesses the LaTeX input to allow text to be used  condi-
       tionally. A special sort of LaTeX comment is used for that purpose.

       *      %@% IF condition %@%

       *      %@% ELSE %@%

       *      %@% END-IF %@%

       A  line must contain only such a comment and nothing else. condition is
       a boolean expression containing  ``names''  and  operators.  The  names
       given  with  the -Cname option have the value ``true'', while all other
       names occuring in the expression are assumed to be  ``false''.  If  the
       evaluation of the boolean expression results in the value ``true'', the
       text in the  ``then''-part  is  used  and  the  text  in  the  optional
       ``else''-part  is  skipped  (and vice versa). The IF/ELSE/END-IF may be
       nested. As boolean operators the following are allowed:



       ( and ) for grouping are allowed.

       For example:
       %@% IF abc %@%
       abc set
       %@%  IF xyz %@%
       xyz set
       %@%  ELSE %@%
       xyz NOT set
       %@%  END-IF %@%
       %@% ELSE %@%
       abc NOT set
       %@%  IF xyz || !XYZ %@%
       xyz OR !XYZ set
       %@%  ELSE %@%
       xyz OR !XYZ NOT set
       %@%  END-IF %@%
       %@% END-IF %@%

       Run this manual page through latex2man with e.g.  -C'abc XYZ' and  have
       a  look to the generated output.  (If simply running the LaTeX-document
       through LaTeX,all lines are shown in the .dvi file).
       abc NOT set
       xyz OR !XYZ set

       To check the conditional text feature, when latex2man is called with

       -CHTML  the lines 1a, 2b, 3b, and 4b;

       -CTEXI  the lines 1b, 2a, 3b, and 4b;

       -CMAN   the lines 1b, 2b, 3a, and 4b;

       -CLATEX
               the lines 1b, 2b, 3b, and 4a;

       calling LaTeX without preprocessing
              all lines

       should be shown:

       1b. The HTML conditional was not set.

       2b. The TEXI conditional was not set.

       3a. This text occurs only when viewing the MAN output

       4b. The LATEX conditional was not set.


   TRANSLATION OF USER DEFINED MACROS
       The user macro translation file (given by the  [-ttransfile])  contains
       Perl commands specifying the translation of LaTeX macros defined by the
       user. These macros may have none, one or two arguments.  The  following
       code is expected:


       *      Comments start with a # up to the end of the line.

       *      For  a  macro \foo with no arguments, the following code must be
              specified:

              Translation to Man-Pages
                     $manMacro{'foo'} = '...';

              Translation to HTML
                     $htmlMacro{'foo'} = '...';

              Translation to TexInfo
                     $texiMacro{'foo'} = '...';

              where ... is the translation.


       *      For a macro \foo{..} with one argument, the following code  must
              be specified:

              Translation to Man-Pages
                     $manMacro1a{'foo'} = '...';
                     $manMacro1b{'foo'} = '...';

              Translation to HTML
                     $htmlMacro1a{'foo'} = '...';
                     $htmlMacro1b{'foo'} = '...';


              Translation to TexInfo
                     $texiMacro1a{'foo'} = '...';
                     $texiMacro1b{'foo'} = '...';

              where  ...  is  the  translation. The 1a code is used before the
              argument, while 1b is typeset after the argument is set.


       *      For a macro \foo{..}{..} with two arguments, the following  code
              must be specified:

              Translation to Man-Pages
                     $manMacro2a{'foo'} = '...';
                     $manMacro2b{'foo'} = '...';
                     $manMacro2c{'foo'} = '...';

              Translation to HTML
                     $htmlMacro2a{'foo'} = '...';
                     $htmlMacro2b{'foo'} = '...';
                     $htmlMacro2c{'foo'} = '...';

              Translation to TexInfo
                     $texiMacro2a{'foo'} = '...';
                     $texiMacro2b{'foo'} = '...';
                     $texiMacro2c{'foo'} = '...';

              where  ...  is  the  translation. The 2a code is used before the
              first argument, 2b between the two arguments and 2c  is  typeset
              after the second argument is set.

       *      The file latex2man.trans contains some example code.


   VERBATIM ENVIRONMENT
       This
           {is}
               \texttt{a}
                         $test$
                                _of_
       verbatim
       <this is no HTML tag> and no @* TexInfo command



   SUBSECTION WORKS
       This is a \subsection.


   Subsubsection works
       This is a \subsubsection.


   Subsubsection still works
       This is another \subsubsection.


   GENERAL REMARKS
       1.     Empty lines are typeset as paragraph separators.

       2.     The  arguments of the LaTeX commands must not be split over sev-
              eral lines.

       3.     Do not nest calls to macros.

       4.     Except the mentioned environment and macros, the usage of  other
              LaTeX  environments  or  macros  are not translated. Their usage
              will cause garbage in the output.

       5.     latex2man requires Perl version >= 5.0004_03.

       6.     If you want to install the system with the distributed Makefile,
              you need GNU-make.  If you don't have it, you should execute the
              steps shown in the Makefile manually.


   SOME BUG FIX TESTS
       Leading . and '
              Now leading . and ' in generation troff output should work prop-
              perly,  since  a  \&  is added. Therfore the \Dot macro has been
              deleted.
              Thanks to Frank.Schilder@Mathematik.Tu-Ilmenau.De.
              Testcase 1:

              '\n'   ...

              Testcase 2:
              .foobar Testcase 3:
              ...

              abc ...  abc . efg ' 123


       %in verbatim
              A % in a \verb and verbatim-environment  was  not  emitted  cor-
              rectly. Thanks to Aleksey Nogin nogin@cs.caltech.edu for the bug
              report and bug fix.

       % abc

          % abc %


       but ignore comments following this:


REQUIREMENTS
       Perl   latex2man requires Perl version >= 5.0004_03.

       Make   If you want to install the system with the distributed Makefile,
              you need GNU-make.  If you don't have it, you should execute the
              steps shown in the Makefile manually.

       LaTeX LaTeX2e is required.


CHANGES
       Please check the file latex2man-CHANGES for the list of changes.


VERSION
       Version: 1.23 of 2008/11/11.


LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
       Copyright
              (C)1998, Dr. Jrgen Vollmer, Viktoriastrae  15,  D-76133  Karl-
              sruhe, Germany, Juergen.Vollmer@informatik-vollmer.de

       The actual version of Latex2man may be found on my homepage
       http://www.informatik-vollmer.de/software/latex2man.html.


       License
              This  program  can  be  redistributed  and/or modified under the
              terms of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from  CTAN
              archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either version
              1 of the License, or any later version.


       Misc   If you find this software useful, please send me a postcard from
              the place where you are living.


AUTHOR
       Dr. Jrgen Vollmer
       Viktoriastrae 15
       D-76133 Karlsruhe
       Email: Juergen.Vollmer@informatik-vollmer.de
       WWW: http://www.informatik-vollmer.de.




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