<* ** macro to format an explanation *> <$MACRO explan TITLE:string/r NAME:string ONLYDEFTAG:bool> <** create named reference **> <$IF (SET NAME)> <$ELSE> <** create heading **>
<$INSERT TEXT=(title)> <$IF (ONLYDEFTAG)> (for use within only)
<* ** macro to format example for IGNORE *> <$MACRO exmp_ign VALUE:string/r>
<$INSERT TEXT=(value)>

All options and swiches are case-insensitive. If you start without any options, a short help message will be displayed.

Display a short help message. Specifies the input filename. To use as input file, see . Specifies the output filename. If no output file is given, is used instead. Specifies the destination directory for output file. Redirects error output to a file. By default, ist used. File(s) to include before main-input file is read. Useful to include macro-definitions without an . Recommended to be used within s. Ignore warning message number. Usually, IGNORE needs a numeric argument and can occure multiple. Example: 
        IGNORE=21 IGN=18 IGN 3         (ignore warnings #21, #18, #3)
Additionally, you can give IGNORE some special values:
Ignore all non-error messages Ignore all notes Ignore all bad style warnings
All these special values add new messages to the list of messages to be ignored, but do not reset any IGNOREs passed before. Set base mode for syntax check. Legal values are PEDANTIC, NORMAL and RELAXED. Default is NORMAL. This only disables several messages and warnings from the beginning. Any IGNOREs passed before are reseted. Display several status messages (output goes to stderr). Legal flags are:
  • QUIET: no status messages
  • LINE: display name and line of file currently processing Included files are also displayed. After processing a file, the filename and the total number of lines remain visible.
  • VERSION: display program title and version
  • VERBOSE: enable verbose status messages; for example, the information displayed during the processing of remains visible.
The above flags can be combined by separating them with a "|", eg STATUS=line|version, exept for QUIET. Strip some specific tags from document. tag_list is a string, that contains all tags that should be stripped, sepparated by a "|". See also and .

Switches

Check existence of local URIs Strip redundant linefeeds and white-spaces from output. Get width and height of images and set corresponding attributes with this values; only works for GIF and PiNG at the moment. Read input file from Replace special charaters with its entity (eg "ü" becomes "&uuml"). Replace special charaters "&", "<" and ">" with its entity (&amp;, &lt; and &gt;) if they are surrounded by white-spaces. Also replace quotes by &quot;. Strip all SGML-comments from input. Strip tags, that reference to an external URI.