marked-man(1) -- markdown to roff

SYNOPSIS

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

marked-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.

marked-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.

marked-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.

See your node package manager manual...

For example:

npx marked-man simple.md

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

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

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

marked.use(markedMan);