docbook-to-man — convert DocBook SGML into roff -man macros

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       The  docbook-to-man  tool  is a batch converter that transforms UNIX-style manpages from the DocBook SGML
       DTD into nroff/troff -man macros.

       docbook-to-man is the shell command that runs the low-level components to translate a single DocBook SGML
       document instance (whose document element is <RefEntry>)  into  pretty-much  vanilla  -man  macros,  with
       tables rendered in tbl.

       This  is  not  the  original version by Fred Dalrymple, but one with the ANS Modifications by David Bolen
       (db3l@ans.net).

       This manual page and some small changes are  by  W.  Borgert  debacle@debian.org  for  DebianGNU/Linux.
       Permission  is  granted  to  copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free
       Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software  Foundation;  with
       no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

       If the variable INSTANT_OPT is not set, the instant(1) is called with the parameter -d by docbook-to-man.
       If you don't want this, e.g. if you want to use some special characters literally in your SGML file,  you
       can set INSTANT_OPT to just a space character:

       INSTANT_OPT=""docbook-to-mansrc.sgml>dst.1

       Note: The better way to use special characters like ^ or > is to write them in the SGML way, i.e. ⁁
       or >.

       docbook-to-man — convert DocBook       SGML into roff -man macros

instant(1) and transpec(5)

                                                                                               docbook-to-man(1)

docbook-to-man [source.sgml]  [>]  [destination.1]

       If you want to use tabs in your manpage you should use <programlisting>, <literal> or <screen> and invoke
       docbook-to-man  with  INSTANT_OPT  set  to a tab character. Be aware that multiple tabs will be collapsed
       into one.

       When you want to collapse white space into one, you should invoke docbook-to-man with INSTANT_OPT set  to
       a space character.

       Special  characters  like  \,  '  or  .  will not be interpreted if you set INSTANT_OPT to a space or tab
       character.