DOCTYPE(1)

📦 version 0_git20260208, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for doctype(1) — she’s here to intuit command line for formatting a document ✨

  • doctype — intuit command line for formatting a document 💅

💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

doctype [ -n ] [ -T dev ] [ file ] ...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so doctype examines a troff(1) input file to deduce the appropriate text formatting command, and then prints it on standard output. no cap, that’s the whole glow-up 🫶

she recognizes input for troff(1), related preprocessors like eqn(1), and the ms(7) and mm macro packages. iconic 🌈

  • -n — invokes nroff instead of troff 🎀
  • -T — this option is passed to troff; the synopsis is out here saying -T dev, so that’s the shape of it 💅

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

eval `{doctype chapter.?} | lp

Typeset files named chapter.0, chapter.1, ... 🎬

🎀 SOURCE 🎀

/bin/doctype — that’s her address, bestie 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

💀 BUGS 💀

in true A.I. style, its best guesses are inspired rather than accurate 😭

mwah 💋 — signed off by doctype(1), source /bin/doctype, footer just says DOCTYPE(1), no extra version/date lore, periodt 🫶

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