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-rw-r--r--man/man1/html2markdown.141
-rw-r--r--man/man1/markdown2pdf.119
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/html2markdown.1 b/man/man1/html2markdown.1
index 542d26852..78c27808e 100644
--- a/man/man1/html2markdown.1
+++ b/man/man1/html2markdown.1
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
.SH NAME
html2markdown \- converts HTML to markdown-formatted text
.SH SYNOPSIS
-\fBhtml2markdown\fR [\fIoptions\fR] [\fIinput\-file\fR or \fIURL\fR]
+\fBhtml2markdown\fR [\fIpandoc\-options\fR]
+[\-\- \fIspecial\-options\fR] [\fIinput\-file\fR or \fIURL\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBhtml2markdown\fR converts \fIinput\-file\fR or \fIURL\fR (or text
from STDIN) from HTML to markdown\-formatted plain text.
@@ -14,10 +15,12 @@ option.
\fBhtml2markdown\fR uses the character encoding specified in the
"Content-type" meta tag. If this is not present, or if input comes
from STDIN, UTF-8 is assumed. A character encoding may be specified
-explicitly using the \fB\-e\fR option.
-.PP
-\fBhtml2markdown\fR is a wrapper for \fBpandoc\fR.
+explicitly using the \fB\-e\fR special option.
.SH OPTIONS
+.PP
+\fBhtml2markdown\fR is a wrapper for \fBpandoc\fR, so all of
+\fBpandoc\fR's options may be used. See \fBpandoc\fR(1) for
+a complete list. The following options are most relevant:
.TP
.B \-s, \-\-standalone
Include title, author, and date information (if present) at the
@@ -26,12 +29,6 @@ top of markdown output.
.B \-o FILE, \-\-output=FILE
Write output to \fIFILE\fR instead of STDOUT.
.TP
-.B \-p, \-\-preserve-tabs
-Preserve tabs instead of converting them to spaces.
-.TP
-.B \-\-tab-stop=\fITABSTOP\fB
-Specify tab stop (default is 4).
-.TP
.B \-\-strict
Use strict markdown syntax, with no extensions or variants.
.TP
@@ -54,29 +51,29 @@ Use contents of \fIFILE\fR
as the document header (overriding the default header, which can be
printed using '\fBpandoc \-D markdown\fR'). Implies
\fB-s\fR.
+.SH "SPECIAL OPTIONS"
+.PP
+In addition, the following special options may be used. The special
+options must be separated from the \fBhtml2markdown\fR command and any
+regular \fBpandoc\fR options by the delimiter `\-\-', as in
+.IP
+.B html2markdown \-o foo.txt \-\- \-g 'curl \-u bar:baz' \-e latin1
+.B www.foo.com
.TP
-.B \-v, \-\-version
-Print version.
-.TP
-.B \-h, \-\-help
-Show usage message.
-.TP
-.B \-e \fIencoding\fR
+.B \-e \fIencoding\fR, \-\-encoding=\fIencoding\fR
Assume the character encoding \fIencoding\fR in reading HTML.
(Note: \fIencoding\fR will be passed to \fBiconv\fR; a list of
available encodings may be obtained using `\fBiconv \-l\fR'.)
-If the \fB\-e\fR option is not specified and input is not from
+If this option is not specified and input is not from
STDIN, \fBhtml2markdown\fR will try to extract the character encoding
from the "Content-type" meta tag. If no character encoding is
specified in this way, or if input is from STDIN, UTF-8 will be
assumed.
.TP
-.B \-g \fIcommand\fR
+.B \-g \fIcommand\fR, \-\-grabber=\fIcommand\fR
Use \fIcommand\fR to fetch the contents of a URL. (By default,
\fBhtml2markdown\fR searches for an available program or text-based
-browser to fetch the contents of a URL.) For example:
-.IP
-html2markdown \-g 'wget \-\-user=foo \-\-password=bar' mysite.com
+browser to fetch the contents of a URL.)
.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBpandoc\fR(1),
diff --git a/man/man1/markdown2pdf.1 b/man/man1/markdown2pdf.1
index 4524c0ac2..3162742bb 100644
--- a/man/man1/markdown2pdf.1
+++ b/man/man1/markdown2pdf.1
@@ -23,19 +23,16 @@ output through \fBiconv\fR:
\fBmarkdown2pdf\fR assumes that the 'unicode' and 'fancyvrb' packages
are in latex's search path. If these packages are not included in your
latex setup, they can be obtained from <http://ctan.org>.
-.PP
-\fBmarkdown2pdf\fR is a wrapper around \fBpandoc\fR.
.SH OPTIONS
+.PP
+\fBmarkdown2pdf\fR is a wrapper around \fBpandoc\fR, so all of
+\fBpandoc\fR's options can be used with \fBmarkdown2pdf\fR as well.
+See \fBpandoc\fR(1) for a complete list.
+The following options are most relevant:
.TP
.B \-o FILE, \-\-output=FILE
Write output to \fIFILE\fR.
.TP
-.B \-p, \-\-preserve-tabs
-Preserve tabs instead of converting them to spaces.
-.TP
-.B \-\-tab-stop=\fITABSTOP\fB
-Specify tab stop (default is 4).
-.TP
.B \-\-strict
Use strict markdown syntax, with no extensions or variants.
.TP
@@ -57,12 +54,6 @@ Include (LaTeX) contents of \fIFILE\fR at the end of the document body.
Use contents of \fIFILE\fR
as the LaTeX document header (overriding the default header, which can be
printed using '\fBpandoc \-D latex\fR'). Implies \fB-s\fR.
-.TP
-.B \-v, \-\-version
-Print version.
-.TP
-.B \-h, \-\-help
-Show usage message.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBpandoc\fR(1),
\fBpdflatex\fR(1)