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NAME

fixman - check a man page and report (sometimes fix) problems

SYNOPSIS

fixman [-BIdnv] pages

DESCRIPTION

fixman looks over a man page, checks for a variety of problems, and announces any found. Some problems are fixed, others require manual intervention. The input file may be modified (unless the -n option is specified); the original file is then renamed to name-.

Processing and Checking

OPTIONS

SEE ALSO

template(1)
manpage(1)

BUGS AND CAVEATS

The emphasis of function and parameter names is done blindly free of the context, which can lead to a lot of emphasis when the names are common words.

Single quotes aren't counted because of the possessive usage.

Counting right parentheses can be hazardous because of numbered lists 1), 2), 3) ...

Fairly specific to our man page dialect.

Just a reminder that you can use nroff to view the manpage:


% nroff -man yourmanpage.1 | more 

AUTHOR

Daniel Quinlan
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