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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)
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-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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