.TH TIDY 1 "November 26, 1999"
.SH NAME
tidy \- validate, correct, and pretty-print HTML files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tidy
.RB [ -ioucnmeqh ]
.RB [ -config
.IR configuration-file ]
.RB [ -indent ]
.RB [ -omit ]
.RB [ -wrap
.IR column ]
.RB [ -upper ]
.RB [ -clean ]
.RB [ -raw
|
.B -ascii
|
.B -latin1
|
.B -iso2022
|
.B -utf8
|
.BR -mac ]
.RB [ -numeric ]
.RB [ -modify ]
.RB [ -errors ]
.RB [ -quiet ]
.RB [ -f
.IR error-file ]
.RB [ -xml ]
.RB [ -asxml ]
.RB [ -slides ]
.RB [ -help ]
.RB [ --\c
.IR "configuration-option value" ]
.IR file ...
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI -config " configuration-file"
Set options from
.IR configuration-file .
.TP
.BR -indent ", " -i
Indent contents of elements (by default using 2 spaces).
.TP
.BR -omit ", " -o
Omit optional endtags.
.TP
.BI -wrap " column"
Wrap output at column
.IR column .
(The default is 68.)
.TP
.BR -upper ", " -u
Output tags in upper case (the default is lower case).  If
.B -xml
is specified, the original case is preserved, and this option has no effect.
Also note that it doesn't affect attribute names.
.TP
.BR -clean ", " -c
Replace <FONT>, <NOBR>, and <CENTER> tags with style properties and rules
using CSS (Cascaded Style Sheets).
.TP
.B -raw
Output characters with values higher than 127 unchanged.
.TP
.B -ascii
Use Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) for input, and US ASCII for output.
.TP
.B -latin1
Use Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) for both input and output.
.TP
.B -iso2022
Use ISO 2022 for both input and output.
.TP
.B -utf8
Use UTF-8 for both input and output.
.TP
.B -mac
Use MacRoman for input.
.TP
.BR -numeric ", " -n
Output numeric rather than named entities.
.TP
.BR -modify ", " -m
Modify original files in place.
.TP
.BR -errors ", " -e
Only show errors.  The original files will not be modified.
.TP
.BR -quiet ", " -q
Supress non-essential output (i.e. the welcome message and the summary
report).
.TP
.BI -f " error-file"
Write errors to
.IR error-file .
.TP
.B -xml
Input is well-formed XML.
.TP
.B -asxml
Convert HTML to well-formed XML.
.TP
.B -slides
Burst into slides on <H2> elements.
.TP
.BR -help ", " -h
List command-line options.
.TP
.BI -- "configuration-option value"
Set
.I configuration-option
to
.IR value .
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
.B HTML_TIDY
Name of the default configuration file.  This should be an absolute path,
since you will probably invoke
.B tidy
from different directories.  The value of HTML_TIDY will be parsed after the
compiled-in default (defined with -DCONFIG_FILE), but before any of the
files specified using
.BR -config .
.SH "EXIT STATUS"
.IP 0
All input files were processed successfully.
.IP 1
There were warnings.
.IP 2
There were errors.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
Tidy HTML documentation.
.SH AUTHORS
Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Matej Vela <vela@debian.org>.