Re: [Patch] Adding examples to the man pages

[Paul Eggert]

"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden> writes:

> the issue is how to include examples in the help text
> and let them be formatted appropriately for the man page (e.g.
> highlighting the fixed text and user supplied text).

You can see an example (ahem :-) of that here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/#example

The idea is that you format the output of "cp --help" the way that is
shown in that example; the man pages will be generated automatically
from that.