NAME

intro/prologue — the first few lines of a manual page source file

DESCRIPTION

When writing a new manual for portable software, always start with these six lines, always in the order given here:

.Dd month day, year
.Dt NAME section
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm name
.Nd description

SEE ALSO

Style guide: specify the date of the last change (Dd)

The MANUAL STRUCTURE section and the MACRO REFERENCE entries of these six macros in the mdoc(7) manual.