Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:07:28 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl> To: Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it> Cc: FreeBSD Documentation Mailing List <doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mdoc question. Message-ID: <19991123120728.C58890@lucifer.bart.nl> In-Reply-To: <19991123105512.F22782@lucifer.bart.nl>; from asmodai@bart.nl on Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:55:12AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911221854480.72781-100000@henny.jrc.it> <19991123105512.F22782@lucifer.bart.nl>
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-On [19991123 11:00], Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (asmodai@bart.nl) wrote:
>-On [19991122 19:50], Nick Hibma (hibma@skylink.it) wrote:
>>
>>I would like to 'encode' the following in a manpage:
>>
>> [ -a start ] [ -e end | -s size ]
>>
>>but the following
>>
>> .Op Fl a Ar start
>> .Op Fl e Ar end | Fl s Ar size
>>
>>produces
>>
>> [ -a start ] [ -e end | -s file ... ]
>
>.Op Fl a start
>.Op Fl e end | Fl s size
>
>No need for the Ar's for all I know.
Following a polite pointer by mpp I propose this:
.Op Fl a Ar start
.Oo
.Fl e Ar end |
.Fl s Ar size
.Oc
Which yields:
[-a start] [-e end | -s size]
And which should be what you wanted/intended and which is mdoc correct.
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