Commit ce44498b authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Revise the description of \programopt, document \longprogramopt.

parent 49362494
......@@ -506,7 +506,15 @@ distribution, to create or maintain whole documents or sections.
\end{macrodesc}
\begin{macrodesc}{programopt}{\p{option}}
A command-line option to an executable program.
A command-line option to an executable program. Use this only
for ``shot'' options, and include the leading hyphen.
\end{macrodesc}
\begin{macrodesc}{longprogramopt}{\p{option}}
A long command-line option to an executable program. This
should only be used for long option names which will be prefixed
by two hyphens; the hyphens should not be provided as part of
\var{option}.
\end{macrodesc}
\begin{macrodesc}{refmodule}{\op{key}\p{name}}
......@@ -987,7 +995,7 @@ distribution, to create or maintain whole documents or sections.
symbolic link to it or run it in place; the actual script file
must be stored as part of the documentation source tree,
though it may be used to format documents outside the
tree. Use \program{mkhowto} \programopt{-}\programopt{-help}
tree. Use \program{mkhowto} \longprogramopt{help}
for a list of
command line options.
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