Manos is a man page generator for C projects that use Doxygen for documentation generation.

Manos does not require any modifications to your project, code comments, or Doxygen configuration file.

Doxygen's man page output (GENERATE_MAN = YES) is less-than-stellar for projects written in the C programming language. For example the formatting and lack of per-function man page is atypical of what one would expect. Manos corrects these shortcomings by generating a man page per-function and with defacto standard formatting.

Manos requires Python 3.10 or newer and Doxygen 1.9.2 or newer.

Install the project through git checkout or install using your package management tool of choice. In these example pip is used.

$ pip install manos

or from repository checkout:

$ git clone https://github.com/hgs3/manos
$ cd manos
$ pip install .

Manos can be used from the command-line or as a Python module in code.

After installing Manos, run the following command(s) substituting Doxyfile with the name of your Doxygen configuration file. If successful, there will be a directory created named man with your beautiful man pages.

$ manos Doxyfile

import manos
manos.process("path/to/your/Doxyfile")

Manos lets you customize the generated output in various ways. The complete list of customization options can be retrieved by running manos -h locally.

Users on *nix systems are encouraged to review the man page for Manos with man manos.

If you intend to develop Manos locally, then first install the required development dependencies with:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Run unit tests with:

$ pytest

Run type checking with:

$ mypy --strict manos
$ mypy --strict tests

Manos is available under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

The project is named after the no-buget horror cult-classic film of the same name.