[MPlayer-DOCS] Less confusing description of '-v'

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 7/25/05, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> The attached patch changes the man page's explanation of the '-verbose'
> option, so that hopefully people will no longer be confused into
> thinking that e.g. '-v 2' is appropriate syntax. As far as I can tell,
> the modified form displays correctly, but there's a chance I've made
> some obscure mistake - the current form was arrived at by trial and
> error.
> 
> I'd also like to rephrase the individual description lines, because they
> have several minor proofreading problems, but that should probably be
> done in another patch.
> 
> If no objections surface by sometime in the coming afternoon/evening
> (Monday), I'll apply this.

[..]
> Index: mplayer.1
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1,v
> retrieving revision 1.1046
> diff -u -u -r1.1046 mplayer.1
> --- mplayer.1   23 Jul 2005 17:10:38 -0000      1.1046
> +++ mplayer.1   25 Jul 2005 07:33:06 -0000
> @@ -463,13 +463,13 @@
>  Increment verbose level (more \-v means more verbosity).
>  .PD 0
>  .RSs
> -.IPs 0
> +.IPs <nothing>
>  only some informational output (default)
> -.IPs 1
> +.IPs \-v\ \ \ \

".IPs \-v\ \ \ " should be enough


>  some basic debug infos, avi header, function values (init debug)
> -.IPs 2
> +.IPs \-v\ \-v\ \ \ \

".IPs \-v\ \-v\ " should be enough


>  print avi indexes, chunk inputs, more debug infos (player debug)
> -.IPs 3
> +.IPs \-v\ \-v\ \-v\ \ \ \ 

".IPs \-v\ \-v\ \-v" should be enough here

>  prints everything related to input parsers (parser debug)
>  .RE
>  .PD 1

Note: those "\ " are just unbreakable spaces used to get the proper formatting. 

Guillaume
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