Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:31:32 +0100 From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> To: Yuri Pankov <yp@xvoid.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de> Subject: Re: Long (-- style) options (.Fl) with mdoc(7) Message-ID: <20200124183132.-nDI2%steffen@sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: <d07ec64e-5ad1-0960-d14b-a446077ee25b@xvoid.org> References: <20200124144829.49360%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <d07ec64e-5ad1-0960-d14b-a446077ee25b@xvoid.org>
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Yuri Pankov wrote in <d07ec64e-5ad1-0960-d14b-a446077ee25b@xvoid.org>: |Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> 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? I can Cc: him. That is _he_, who is totally opposed against long- options, isn't he? Whatever this guide says, if you do Postscript/PDF output (with groff) then Fl becomes a nice dash, whereas the other thing is a hyphen-minus. I am using Fl Fl ever since i saw wizd(8)'s comment, tried it, and was satisfied by the results. Despite that Fl Fl is ugly but logically deducable, too. --End of <d07ec64e-5ad1-0960-d14b-a446077ee25b@xvoid.org> --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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