Re: boldface, italics, spaces and ellipses in synopses of commands, and *nix history

2023-07-31 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, On 2023-08-01 00:20, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >>> Thanks for raising this. The fix was straightforward, and you can >>> expect it in my next push to groff Git.[9] > > I may not be willing to die on this hill, but I'm willing to risk being > MEDEVACed from it. It won't matter, if

Re: boldface, italics, spaces and ellipses in synopses of commands, and *nix history

2023-07-31 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Lennart, At 2023-07-31T18:40:11+, Lennart Jablonka wrote: > > > I’d argue that’s acceptable for those utilities adhering to the > > > POSIX Utility Syntax Guidelines; that is, those that just use > > > getopt. [...] > Actually, reading it again, I would just drop the ellipsis. > > f

Re: boldface, italics, spaces and ellipses in synopses of commands, and *nix history

2023-07-31 Thread Lennart Jablonka
I’d argue that’s acceptable for those utilities adhering to the POSIX Utility Syntax Guidelines; that is, those that just use getopt. And thus, foobar [-v ...] -v ... Be more verbose. This options can be specified multiple times to increase the verbosity lev