From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Nov 23 3: 7:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.bart.nl (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C0015992 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 03:07:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@lucifer.bart.nl) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.bart.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA59846; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:07:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:07:28 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Nick Hibma Cc: FreeBSD Documentation Mailing List Subject: Re: mdoc question. Message-ID: <19991123120728.C58890@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <19991123105512.F22782@lucifer.bart.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991123105512.F22782@lucifer.bart.nl>; from asmodai@bart.nl on Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:55:12AM +0100 Organisation: bART Internet Services B.V. Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -On [19991123 11:00], Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (asmodai@bart.nl) wrote: >-On [19991122 19:50], Nick Hibma (hibma@skylink.it) wrote: >> >>I would like to 'encode' the following in a manpage: >> >> [ -a start ] [ -e end | -s size ] >> >>but the following >> >> .Op Fl a Ar start >> .Op Fl e Ar end | Fl s Ar size >> >>produces >> >> [ -a start ] [ -e end | -s file ... ] > >.Op Fl a start >.Op Fl e end | Fl s size > >No need for the Ar's for all I know. Following a polite pointer by mpp I propose this: .Op Fl a Ar start .Oo .Fl e Ar end | .Fl s Ar size .Oc Which yields: [-a start] [-e end | -s size] And which should be what you wanted/intended and which is mdoc correct. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator bART Internet Services / Tel: +31 - (0) 10 - 240 39 70 VIA NET.WORKS Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message