Long (-- style) options (.Fl) with mdoc(7)
Yuri Pankov
yp at xvoid.org
Fri Jan 24 17:58:26 UTC 2020
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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