Re: Allowing "?" as a flag in mdoc

[Aisha Tammy <openbsd@aisha.cc>]

I am not the one making this package.
This package is https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/
which is an alternative (imo better) implementation of standard
tk environment modules.
It does not provide a nice man page, I'm maintaining this for
Gentoo Linux and decided to create a better man page in mdoc.

Cheers,
Aisha

On 1/24/21 12:10 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 05:04:06PM GMT, Aisha Tammy wrote:
>>
>> On 1/24/21 12:01 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 03:39:19PM GMT, Aisha Tammy wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>   I'm trying to create a manpage where the command takes a flag "?"
>>>> The command would (to display help):
>>>>   module -?
>>>>
>>>> For this I created in module.1:
>>>>
>>>> .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
>>>> .It Fl h , ? , H , -help
>>>> Show the help message.
>>>> .El
>>>>
>>>> But the output of this looks:
>>>>
>>>>      -h,?, -H, --help
>>>>              Show the help message.
>>>>
>>>> Without the - before ?
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell how I can display a -? before the flag?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Aisha
>>>
>>> Hi Aisha,
>>>
>>> Prepend it with zero-width space ('\&').[0]
>>>
>>> [0] https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc.7#Delimiters
>>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Aisha
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Two things, though:
> 
> 1. Not sure whether using a question mark ('?') as a flag is a good idea.
> 
> 2. module(1) is already taken[1] ;^)
> 
> [1] http://modules.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Raf
> 
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