Richard wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> My problem with the documentation is that I *know* IM can do
>> something, but for the life of me I can't find the magic flag that
>> does it. The -help output is too terse to be of any use unless you
>> already know what the flag does but temporarily forgot its name.
>
> OK, I had an idea just now. If I could supply additional arguments to
> -help to get more information on a flag, that would satisfy my gripe
> :).
>
> For instance, right now -help just outputs a one-line summary of all
> options. But suppose I could do
>
> convert -help -encoding
>
> to get more information on the -encoding flag, basically the same text
> as is present in the .html files.
>
> What's the suggested means for contributions? Diffs against a source
> distribution?
I like the idea. Might I suggest that you should phrase this as
convert -encoding help
instead?
BTW, this is what mplayer does:
mplayer -ao help
Available audio output drivers:
oss OSS/ioctl audio output
alsa ALSA-0.9.x-1.x audio output
esd EsounD audio output
pulse PulseAudio audio output
jack JACK audio output
nas NAS audio output
sdl SDLlib audio output
mpegpes DVB audio output
v4l2 V4L2 MPEG Audio Decoder output
null Null audio output
pcm RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output
Best wishes,
Richard
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