Compile markdown to man pages with remark. Great unicode support; name, section, and description detection; nested block quotes and lists; tables; and much more.

npm:

npm install remark-man

Say we have the following file, example.md:

# ls(1) -- list directory contents

## SYNOPSIS

`ls` [`-ABCFGHLOPRSTUW@abcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1`] \[_file_ _..._]

And our script, example.js, looks as follows:

var vfile = require('to-vfile')
var unified = require('unified')
var markdown = require('remark-parse')
var man = require('remark-man')

unified()
  .use(markdown)
  .use(man)
  .process(vfile.readSync('example.md'), function(err, file) {
    if (err) throw err
    file.extname = '.1'
    vfile.writeSync(file)
  })

Now, running node example and cat example.1 yields:

.TH "LS" "1" "June 2015" "" ""
.SH "NAME"
\fBls\fR - list directory contents
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.P
\fBls\fR \fB\fB-ABCFGHLOPRSTUW@abcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1\fR\fR \[lB]\fIfile\fR \fI...\fR\[rB]

Now, that looks horrible, but that’s how roff/groff/troff are 😉.

To properly view that man page, use something like this: man ./example.1.

Compile markdown to a man page.

string, optional — Title of the page. Is inferred from the main heading: # hello-world(7) sets name to 'hello-world'; or from the file’s name: hello-world.1.md sets name to 'hello-world'.

number or string, optional — Section of page. Is inferred from the main heading: # hello-world(7) sets section to 7; or from the file’s name: hello-world.1.md sets section to 1.

string, optional — Description of page. Is inferred from the main heading: # hello-world(7) -- Two common words sets description to 'Two common words'.

number, string, or Date, optional — Date of page. Given to new Date(date) as date, so when null or undefined, defaults to the current date. Dates are centred in the footer line of the displayed page.

string, optional — Version of page. Versions are positioned at the left of the footer line of the displayed page (or at the left on even pages and at the right on odd pages if double-sided printing is active).

string, optional — Manual of page. Manuals are centred in the header line of the displayed page.

Set to true (default: false) to prefer the first when duplicate definitions are found. The default behaviour is to prefer the last duplicate definition.

• remark-react — Compile to React
• remark-vdom — Compile to VDOM
• remark-html — Compile to HTML
• remark-rehype — Properly transform to HTML

See contributing.md in remarkjs/remark for ways to get started.

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