Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 18:30:51 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: mdoc(7) question Message-ID: <20030210173051.GF393@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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Hi there,
two quick mdoc(7) questions:
I'm writing a man page for a utility I'm writing, and I want the option
listing look like this:
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Print a brief help message.
-n, --dry-run
Don't actually connect to the server. DDL generated by mktable.php
is output on stdout.
-H, --host=host
Connect to server on host.
The best I could achieve without resorting to (FMPOV) hacks was the same
amount of indentation for the option, and the description:
-H, --host=host
Connect to server on host.
what is the canonical way of doing this?
BTW, I'm not happy with the way I got the vertical space between the
options (with .Pp), but that might be my html background. Is this ok, or
should I do it another way?
This is what I have right now:
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -ohang -compact
.It Fl h , Fl -help
Print a brief help message.
.Pp
.It Fl n , Fl -dry-run
Don't actually connect to the server. DDL generated by
.Nm
is output on stdout.
.Pp
.It Fl H , Fl -host Ns = Ns Ar host
.br
Connect to server on
.Ar host .
.Pp
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