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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
\fBcmark\fR
-acts as a pipe, reading from
-\fRstdin\fR
-or from the specified files and writing to
-\fRstdout\fR.
-It converts Markdown formatted plain text to HTML (or groff man or
-an abstract representation of the AST), using the conventions
-described in the CommonMark spec.
-If multiple files are specified, the contents of the files are simply
-concatenated before parsing.
+converts Markdown formatted plain text to either HTML, groff man,
+CommonMark XML, or CommonMark, using the conventions
+described in the CommonMark spec. It reads input from \fIstdin\fR
+or the specified files (concatenating their contents) and writes
+output to \fIstdout\fR.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.TP 12n
-\-\-to, \-t \f[I]FORMAT\f[]
+.B \-\-to, \-t \f[I]FORMAT\f[]
Specify output format (\f[C]html\f[], \f[C]man\f[], \f[C]xml\f[],
\f[C]commonmark\f[]).
.TP 12n
-\-\-width \f[I]WIDTH\f[]
+.B \-\-width \f[I]WIDTH\f[]
Specify a column width to which to wrap the output. For no wrapping, use
the value 0 (the default). This option currently only affects the
commonmark renderer.
.TP 12n
-\-\-sourcepos
+.B \-\-sourcepos
Include source position attribute.
.TP 12n
-\-\-hardbreaks
-Treat newlines as hard line breaks.
+.B \-\-hardbreaks
+Treat newlines as hard line breaks. If this option is specified,
+hard wrapping is disabled, regardless of the value given with \-\-width.
.TP 12n
-\-\-normalize
+.B \-\-normalize
Consolidate adjacent text nodes.
.TP 12n
-\-\-smart
+.B \-\-smart
Use smart punctuation. Straight double and single quotes will
be rendered as curly quotes, depending on their position.
\f[C]\-\-\f[] will be rendered as an en-dash.
\f[C]\-\-\-\f[] will be rendered as an em-dash.
\f[C]...\f[] will be rendered as ellipses.
.TP 12n
-\-\-help
+.B \-\-help
Print usage information.
.TP 12n
-\-\-version
+.B \-\-version
Print version.
.SH "AUTHORS"
John MacFarlane, Vicent Marti, Kārlis Gaņģis, Nick Wellnhofer.