Re: Any plans to document ImageMagick?

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