markdown-man(1) -- markdown to roff

SYNOPSIS

markdown-man README.md > doc/foo.1
# works too with stdin
cat README.md | markdown-man --version 1.0 | man /dev/stdin

DESCRIPTION

markdown-man wraps marked to extend it with groff output support in order to create Unix manual pages for use with man.

It follows the ronn markdown level-1 header format: # name(section) -- short description

which populates the HEADER section, and the NAME section (if none is already written) of the manpage.

OPTIONS

markdown-man is a marked CLI extension, meaning options can be passed directly to marked.

The --breaks option, which retains intra-paragraph line breaks, is now true by default. Use --no-breaks to disable it.

markdown-man adds some options to marked's existing options, to be able to override the header/footer of generated man pages.

• --name <name> Optional, overrides name in ronn header.

• --section <section> Optional, overrides section in ronn header. Defaults to 1.

• --description <description> Optional, overrides description in ronn header.

• --version <version> The version shown in the manpage footer. Optional, when omitted, defaults to the target node module version, or empty.

• --manual <manual> The manual-group name shown in the manpage header. Optional, when omitted, man displays a value matching the section.

• --date <date> The date shown in the manpage header. Optional, defaults to now. Must be acceptable to new Date(string or timestamp). Honors SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable for reproducible builds.

INSTALLATION

See your node package manager manual...

For example:

npx markdown-man simple.md

EXAMPLE

To view this README as a man page, run something like the following:

markdown-man README.md | man /dev/stdin

AS MARKED EXTENSION

import markedMan from 'markdown-man';
import marked from 'marked';

marked.use(markedMan);

SEE ALSO

Ronn Ronn-NG groff

REPORTING BUGS

See markdown-man repository.