#!/usr/bin/env python # Creates a man page from a C file. # Comments beginning with `/**` are treated as Groff man. # Non-blank lines immediately following a man page comment are treated # as function signatures or examples and parsed into .Ft, .Fo, .Fa, .Fc. The # immediately preceding man documentation chunk is printed after the example # as a comment on it. # That's about it! import sys, re, os from datetime import date comment_start_re = re.compile('^\/\*\* ?') comment_delim_re = re.compile('^[/ ]\** ?') comment_end_re = re.compile('^ \**\/') function_re = re.compile('^ *(?:CMARK_EXPORT\s+)?(?P(?:const\s+)?\w+(?:\s*[*])?)\s*(?P\w+)\s*\((?P[^)]*)\)') blank_re = re.compile('^\s*$') macro_re = re.compile('CMARK_EXPORT *') typedef_start_re = re.compile('typedef.*{$') typedef_end_re = re.compile('}') typedef = False mdlines = [] chunk = [] sig = [] if len(sys.argv) > 1: sourcefile = sys.argv[1] else: print("Usage: make_man_page.py sourcefile") exit(1) with open(sourcefile, 'r') as cmarkh: state = 'default' for line in cmarkh: # state transition oldstate = state if comment_start_re.match(line): state = 'man' elif comment_end_re.match(line) and state == 'man': continue elif comment_delim_re.match(line) and state == 'man': state = 'man' elif not typedef and blank_re.match(line): state = 'default' elif typedef and typedef_end_re.match(line): typedef = False elif state == 'man': state = 'signature' typedef = typedef_start_re.match(line) # handle line if state == 'man': chunk.append(re.sub(comment_delim_re, '', line)) elif state == 'signature': ln = re.sub(macro_re, '', line) if typedef or not re.match(blank_re, ln): sig.append(ln) elif oldstate == 'signature' and state != 'signature': if len(mdlines) > 0 and mdlines[-1] != '\n': mdlines.append('\n') rawsig = ''.join(sig) m = function_re.match(rawsig) if m: mdlines.append('.Ft ' + m.group('type') + '\n') mdlines.append('.Fo ' + m.group('name') + '\n') for argument in re.split('/s*,/s*', m.group('args')): mdlines.append('.Fa ' + argument + '\n') mdlines.append('.Fc\n') else: mdlines.append('.Bd -literal\n') mdlines += sig mdlines.append('.Ed\n') if len(mdlines) > 0 and mdlines[-1] != '\n': mdlines.append('\n') mdlines += chunk chunk = [] sig = [] elif oldstate == 'man' and state != 'signature': if len(mdlines) > 0 and mdlines[-1] != '\n': mdlines.append('\n') mdlines += chunk # add man chunk chunk = [] mdlines.append('\n') sys.stdout.write('.Dd ' + date.today().strftime('%B %d, %Y') + '\n') sys.stdout.write('.Dt ' + os.path.basename(sourcefile).replace('.h','') + ' 3\n') sys.stdout.write(''.join(mdlines))