Re: Issues in man pages of lilypond

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Hello Werner,
Am Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 05:20:58PM +0000 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> 
> >> > Man page: abc2ly.1
> >> > Issue:    this help → a help screen
> >> > 
> >> > "show this help and exit"
> >> 
> >> What you suggest is not what GNU programs like `rm`, `ls`, or `dir`
> >> do.  I'm not going to change it for this reason.
> > 
> > Ok. This again is a limitation of help2man.
> 
> No, it is not – in this case I'm simply following what prominent GNU
> programs do (since LilyPond is a GNU project, too).  I'm not a native
> speaker (ich bin Wiener :-) and I trust that the US-maintainers of
> those packages know what they do.

Greetings to Wien, it's a really nice city (just came by last week).

Regarding this sentence - in a man page it simply does not make sense,
even if I'm not a native speaker either.

However, I respect your choice, of course.

Greetings

         Helge

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