[MPlayer-users] mplayer -xxx help

[Jonas Jermann]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:27:06PM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> > > It's already hard enough to keep the man page up-to-date.
> > 
> > Okay.  I can definitely sympathise with this.
> 
> We should use/develop something similar to mc's help.
> They're generating context-sensitive help screens from the manpage somehow.
> 
> Maybe we could add tricky comments/own macros to the manpage for each
> -xxx help sections, and use a compile-time script to extract that paragraph
> formatted and compile into the code. It's a big work, but it solves the
> problem for all langauages, and still one file to update/translate.

Or the old idea: Create all documentations in one meta language 
and convert it to the needed format (man page, source help, 
html, whatever). But I dout it will (can?) be done.

Regards
    Jonas