[MPlayer-users] mplayer -xxx help

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > Maybe we could add tricky comments/own macros to the manpage for each
> > -xxx help sections, and use a compile-time script to extract that paragraph
> > formatted and compile into the code. It's a big work, but it solves the
> > problem for all langauages, and still one file to update/translate.
> 
> Or the old idea: Create all documentations in one meta language 
> and convert it to the needed format (man page, source help, 
> html, whatever). But I dout it will (can?) be done.

doable, but
- it's a lot of work
- it's a new language doc writers/translators have to learn

imho adding some special tags to manpage is much easier, and we already
removed stuff from html docs which is in the manpage.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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