2007/4/2, William Morgan <wmorgan-ruby-talk / masanjin.net>: > Excerpts from Jonas Pfenniger's message of Sun Apr 01 02:57:54 -0700 2007: > > it's indeed a really nice parser. I especially liked how it's small > > and still very powerful. What do you think it would take to add a > > groff -> man output generator ? > > There's a gnu tool called "help2man" that works very well at turning > Trollop output into a man page, especially if you format things how it > expects them. > > I've just release version 1.6, which doesn't do the curses screen-width > detection magic unless it's running on a terminal. This is necessary for > help2man (and "less"!) to work right. Cool ! I might try it on my next project. Do you plan to add a default usage if no banner is given ? Something like : "Usage : #{File.basename($0)} [OPTIONS] ...". -- Cheers, zimbatm