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diff --git a/mkhtmlindex.man b/mkhtmlindex.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c673e94 --- /dev/null +++ b/mkhtmlindex.man @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +.TH mkhtmlindex 1 __vendorversion__ +.SH NAME +mkhtmlindex \- generate index files for HTML man pages +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B mkhtmlindex +.I htmlmandir +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.I mkhtmlindex +program generates index files for a directory of HTML-formatted manual +pages. +It searches for files whose names are of the form \(lqname.1.html\(rq, +and outputs index files \(lqmanindex1.html\(rq, \(lqmanindex.2.html\(rq, +and so on, one for each manual volume. +Empty index files will be removed. +Names and descriptions are found by scanning the first +.I <H2> +section of each page. +.SH OPTIONS +.I mkhtmlindex +takes only one argument: the directory to process. +.SH NOTES +This utility is currently rather specific to XFree86. +In particular, the format of the index files it outputs is not configurable, +nor is the HTML formatting it expects of manual pages. +.SH AUTHOR +.PP +David Dawes wrote the +.I mkhtmlindex +program for XFree86. +.PP +Colin Watson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project. |