MANLINT(1) Linux Programmer's Manual MANLINT(1)NAMEmanlint - program to report errors in man or mdoc pages
SYNOPSISmanlint [ options ] [ list of files ]
DESCRIPTIONmanlint is a program that identifies lint (errors) in man or mdoc page
formatting, similar to a spelling checker for ordinary text. Manlint
has a list of permitted macros and escape sequences, and reports the
use of any macro or escape sequence not in the permitted list. This
permitted list includes all the macros defined in man(7), mdoc(7), and
the safe subset of troff defined in man(7). manlint also checks for
conformance to various rules.
If a man page passes manlint, it should be widely portable, even to
tools such as man2html(1) which don't implement all of troff.
If a list of files is omitted, the standard input is used. A file by
the name "-" is interpreted as the standard input.
BUGS
Currently the program is very incomplete. It doesn't have any options,
it doesn't actually check escape sequences, and it can't handle mdoc
format. Still, it's clear what it should do, and even in its current
form it can find lots of problems in existing man files.
AUTHOR
David A. Wheeler (dwheeler@ida.org) was the original author of manlint.
Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org> is the current maintainer.
SEE ALSOman(7), mdoc(7).
Linux 14 July 1999 MANLINT(1)
