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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:17:44 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: mdoc(7) question
Message-ID:  <20030210181744.GN5356@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030210173051.GF393@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
References:  <20030210173051.GF393@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>

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In the last episode (Feb 10), Roman Neuhauser said:
> Hi there,
> 
> two quick mdoc(7) questions:
> 
> I'm writing a man page for a utility I'm writing, and I want the option
> listing look like this:
> 
> OPTIONS
>      -h, --help
>          Print a brief help message.
> 
>      -n, --dry-run
>          Don't actually connect to the server. DDL generated by mktable.php
>          is output on stdout.
> 
>      -H, --host=host
>          Connect to server on host.

> This is what I have right now:
> 
> .Sh OPTIONS
> .Bl -ohang -compact

Try  .Bl -tag -width "indent"    here instead.  That creates a list with
"tags" or headers, and the description indented by the width of the
word "indent".  


-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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