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Date:      Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:58:22 +0300
From:      Yuri Pankov <yp@xvoid.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Long (-- style) options (.Fl) with mdoc(7)
Message-ID:  <d07ec64e-5ad1-0960-d14b-a446077ee25b@xvoid.org>
In-Reply-To: <20200124144829.49360%steffen@sdaoden.eu>
References:  <20200124144829.49360%steffen@sdaoden.eu>

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Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> The very moment i have seen a showmount(8) change fly by, and
> wanted to make you aware of the persuading approach that NetBSD's
> wizd(8) uses, namely ".Fl Fl long-option".  Different to ".Fl
> -long-option" this produces visually appealing results on all
> output devices.

mandoc style guide advises differently:

https://mandoc.bsd.lv/mdoc/style/options.html

It's not authoritative, of course, but I'm not aware of any other mdoc 
style guide.  May be you could take it up to style guide/mandoc authors?



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