Re: please cut up help text of xargs into manageable translatable chunks

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013, at 23:01, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Here's the fix.

Looks good, except...  I don't like the misalignment caused
by specifying optional arguments also for the short option.
Why not extend the introductory phrase to say:

  "Mandatory and optional arguments to long options are
  also mandatory or optional for the short option.\n"

Gnulib, glibc and tar, for example, use the following phrase:

  "Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also
  mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options."

In my opnion it is not necessary to say that square brackets
indicate optional arguments -- the reader has to know this
already in order to understand the synopsis.

And for --help and --version, why not use the standard ones
and put them at the end, like several coreutils and util-linux
commands start doing?

Benno

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