[MPlayer-DOCS] manpage entries for -v, -verbose, -quiet

[Attila Kinali]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:28:25 +0100
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

> Attila Kinali writes:
>  > something i forgot to mention: the manpage
>  > entries for -v, -verbose and -quiet should
>  > be moved to a general or common options section
>  > but there is nothing like this.
>  > 
>  > IMHO we should have one at the beginning
>  > right after the keyboard control
> 
> Yes, not a bad idea.
> 
> But while we are discussing man page structure..  I have something
> much more radical in mind: I want to split the man page into mplayer.1
> and mencoder.1.  I would have done this long ago, but I do not know
> how to best handle the overlap of options between mplayer.1 and
> mencoder.1.  We have several possibilities:
> 
> 1) duplicate everything

very bad idea

> 2) Put common options in mplayer.1 only.

bad idea

> 3) Construct some build system magic that glues together the two man
>    pages from different man page snippets.

Either that or

4) Add a mplayer-common.1

			Attila Kinali
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