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# 5. Manual pages

`cliapp` provides a way to fill in a manual page template, in troff format, with information about all options. This allows you to write the rest of the manual page without having to remember to update all options. This is a compromise between ease-of-development and manual page quality.

A high quality manual page probably needs to be written from scratch. For example, the description of each option in a manual page should usually be longer than what is suitable for `--help` output. However, it is tedious to write option descriptions many times.

To use this, use the `--generate-manpage=TEMPLATE` option, where `TEMPLATE` is the name of the template file. See `example.1` in the `cliapp` source tree for an example.

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