Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 11:14:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> Cc: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r361940 - head/usr.bin/mkimg Message-ID: <202006091814.059IErtW052230@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20200608211940.qrR5l%steffen@sdaoden.eu>
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> Hi. > > Mateusz Piotrowski wrote in > <202006082111.058LBYfj075205@repo.freebsd.org>: > |Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer) > |Date: Mon Jun 8 21:11:34 2020 > |New Revision: 361940 > |URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/361940 > | > |Log: > | Use Fl instead of Ar for long flags > ... > |-.Ar --formats | --schemes | --version > |+.Fl -formats | Fl -schemes | Fl -version > > Ingo Schwarze of mandoc has in the meanwhile committed support for > ".Fl Fl", which is the term that seems to be most widely used for > long options, for example > > .Fl Fl formats > > It also works just fine for groff, the real roff macros that is. While this produces the correct typographic output, I believe it to be counter to the intent of roff to be a lexographical expression of content. It would probably be wise if one wants to preserve the intent of roff to introduce a new macro that describes the doublt dash long options. > Ciao, > > --steffen > | > |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, > |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one > |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off > |(By Robert Gernhardt) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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