Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:28:01 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mdoc(7) question Message-ID: <20030211102801.GI393@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20030210222412.GA33990@gothmog.gr> <20030210181744.GN5356@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030210173051.GF393@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20030210222412.GA33990@gothmog.gr> <20030210173051.GF393@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20030210181744.GN5356@dan.emsphone.com>
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# dnelson@allantgroup.com / 2003-02-10 12:17:44 -0600:
> In the last episode (Feb 10), Roman Neuhauser said:
> > 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.
>
> > This is what I have right now:
> >
> > .Sh OPTIONS
> > .Bl -ohang -compact
>
> Try .Bl -tag -width "indent" here instead. That creates a list with
> "tags" or headers, and the description indented by the width of the
> word "indent".
# keramida@ceid.upatras.gr / 2003-02-11 00:24:12 +0200:
> How about this?
>
> Here is a list:
> .Bl -tag -width indent
> .It Fl h , Fl \-help
> Option description here.
> .It Fl p , Fl \-print
> Option description here.
> .El
Thanks guys. Is there a clean way to make sure that the description
will always begin on the line below the tag line? IOW, with
.Bl -tag, if the actual tag width is less than that of -width's
argument, these two items will fold, and description will begin on
the tag line. That's not what I want.
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