Man Page Format Guide
Unix manual pages (roff/groff) — the standard documentation format for Unix and Linux systems
About Man Page Format
Man pages (manual pages) are the standard form of documentation on Unix and Linux systems. Originally
developed at Bell Labs in 1971, man pages use the roff/troff/groff typesetting system to format structured
technical documentation. Every Unix command, system call, library function, and configuration file typically
has an associated man page accessible via the man command in the terminal.
Man pages are organized into numbered sections: (1) User commands, (2) System calls, (3) Library functions, (4) Special files, (5) File formats, (6) Games, (7) Miscellaneous, (8) System administration commands. Each page follows a standardized structure with sections like NAME, SYNOPSIS, DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, EXAMPLES, SEE ALSO, and BUGS. The roff markup language provides formatting directives like .TH (title heading), .SH (section heading), .B (bold), and \fI...\fR (italic). Converting man pages to other formats enables web publishing, documentation integration, and cross-platform accessibility.
Available Conversions
Convert man pages to AsciiDoc for documentation systems
Convert Unix manuals to AsciiDoc markup
Convert man pages to Amazon Kindle e-book format
Encode man page content to Base64 for safe transfer
Convert man pages to BBCode for forum posting
Extract man page content into CSV format
Convert man pages to Microsoft Word format
Convert man pages to DocBook XML for publishing
Convert man pages to modern Word format
Convert man pages to EPUB e-book format
Convert man pages to EPUB3 with enhanced features
Convert man pages to FictionBook format
Encode man page content to hexadecimal
Convert man pages to web-viewable HTML format
Convert man page content to INI configuration format
Convert man pages to Jupyter Notebook format
Convert man pages to Atlassian JIRA markup
Convert man page structure to JSON data
Convert man pages to LaTeX for typesetting
Convert man page content to plain log format
Convert man pages to Markdown documentation
Convert man pages to Markdown for GitHub/GitLab
Convert man pages to MediaWiki markup
Convert man pages to Mobipocket e-book format
Convert man pages to OpenDocument Text format
Convert man pages to Emacs Org-mode format
Convert man pages to portable PDF documents
Convert man pages to PowerPoint presentations
Convert man page content to Java Properties format
Convert man pages to reStructuredText
Convert man pages to Rich Text Format
Convert man page content to SQL insert statements
Convert man page text to SVG vector format
Convert man pages to StarOffice Writer format
Convert man pages to TeX/LaTeX format
Convert man pages to plain text
Convert man pages to Textile markup
Convert man page content to TOML format
Convert man page content to tab-separated values
Convert man pages to simple text files
Convert man pages to Typst modern typesetting
Convert man pages to Wiki markup
Convert man page content to Excel spreadsheet
Convert man pages to structured XML format
Convert man page structure to YAML data
Convert man pages to YML data format
Convert to Man Page Format
Convert plain text files to Unix man page format
Convert Microsoft Word documents to Unix man page format
Convert PDF documents to Unix man page format
Convert HTML web pages to Unix man page format
Convert Markdown documents to Unix man page format
Convert Rich Text Format documents to Unix man page format
Convert OpenDocument text files to Unix man page format
Convert Microsoft Word (legacy) documents to Unix man page format
Convert TeX/LaTeX documents to Unix man page format
Convert AsciiDoc documents to Unix man page format
Convert reStructuredText documents to Unix man page format
Convert Org-mode documents to Unix man page format
Convert EPUB e-books to Unix man page format
Convert Mobipocket e-books to Unix man page format
Convert FictionBook e-books to Unix man page format
Convert Amazon Kindle e-books to Unix man page format
Convert YAML data files to Unix man page format
Convert YML data files to Unix man page format
Convert JSON data files to Unix man page format
Convert XML documents to Unix man page format
Convert CSV spreadsheet data to Unix man page format
Convert TSV tab-separated data to Unix man page format
Convert INI configuration files to Unix man page format
Convert TOML configuration files to Unix man page format
Convert LOG files to Unix man page format
Convert Java properties files to Unix man page format
Convert SQL database files to Unix man page format
Convert BBCode forum markup to Unix man page format
Convert hexadecimal encoded files to Unix man page format
Convert Base64 encoded files to Unix man page format
Convert Textile markup files to Unix man page format
Convert Markdown documents to Unix man page format
Convert MediaWiki markup to Unix man page format
Convert Wiki markup files to Unix man page format
Convert AsciiDoc markup files to Unix man page format
Convert plain text files to Unix man page format
Convert LaTeX documents to Unix man page format
Convert EPUB3 e-books to Unix man page format
Convert DocBook XML documents to Unix man page format
Convert Excel spreadsheet files to Unix man page format
Convert PowerPoint presentations to Unix man page format
Convert SVG vector graphics to Unix man page format
Convert StarWriter/OpenOffice documents to Unix man page format
Convert Jupyter Notebook files to Unix man page format
Convert Jira markup files to Unix man page format
Convert Typst documents to Unix man page format