On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 at 02:49, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > > > > In general, then, it would be good if x-to-1 ignored unknown options and > > passed them to help2man; would that be possible? > > Passing down additional options to help2man is a very good idea; > implemented > below. Ignoring unknown options is not such a good idea; not implemented. >
Thanks very much for this. There's one final thing that would be useful for recode: to make the .x file optional. Recode (unlike all the other programs I use with help2man) does not need any extra information. I tried simply creating an empty .x file, but help2man gives an error.