Long (-- style) options (.Fl) with mdoc(7)

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Yuri Pankov wrote in <d07ec64e-5ad1-0960-d14b-a446077ee25b at 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.

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--steffen
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