Re: long options as an option.

> There is one thing I might tweak with the utilities, though.  I've
> noticed that imagemagick seems to be one of the only programs that
> doesn't conform to the '--' for long options and '-' for short options
> convention.

We're not surprised.  ImageMagick was written way before this convention
became a defacto standard.  We prefer the existing option set simply
because that is what our users are accustomed to, what is documented
in our web pages and the books about ImageMagick (there are over
600 published books that discuss ImageMagick), and the single dash option
(.e.g. -page) is a direct analog of the plus option (.e.g +page).  Sure we
could permit both variations -option and --option but that could very well
be a "foolish consistency".

Stand by for other ImageMagick developers that may very well disagree with
our sentiment here.