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package cmdliner
Man page specification.
Man page generation is automatically handled by Cmdliner. The block type is used to define a man page's content.
The print function can be useful if the client wants to define other man pages (e.g. to implement a help command).
Man pages
The type for a block of man page text.
`S sintroduces a new sections.`P tis a new paragraph with textt.`Pre tis a new preformatted paragraph with textt.`I (l,t)is an indented paragraph with labelland textt.`Noblanksuppresses the blank line introduced between two blocks.
Except in `Pre, whitespace and newlines are not significant and are all collapsed to a single space. In labels l and text strings t, the syntax "$(i,italic text)" and "$(b,bold
text)" can be used to respectively produce italic and bold text.
The type for man page titles. Describes the man page title, section, center_footer, left_footer, center_header.
val print :
?subst:(string -> string) ->
[ `Pager | `Plain | `Groff ] ->
Format.formatter ->
t ->
unitprint ~subst fmt ppf page prints page on ppf in the format fmt. If fmt is `Pager the function tries to write the formatted result in a pager, if that fails the format `Plain is written on ppf. subst can be used to perform variable substitution, see Buffer.add_substitute (defaults to the identity).
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