many-character option list

Gary Mamon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.docutils.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* How can I make a many-character non-POSIX (i.e. single dash signs) option list, i.e.

-data file	# data filename

OR

-data file	-> data filename

where the first data is highlighted as a literal, the “file” is highlighted as emphasis (italics), and the tabulation between “file” and “#” or “->” is a real tab so that subsequent lines are vertically aligned?

Using standard option lists doesn’t work: 
1) multiple-character options have their first letter in literal and the next ones in emphasis, which is weird. 
2) some lines with arguments fail to process correctly.

* As an alternative, I could enclose all lines in a literal block. But then, how can I place emphasis on some of the words within the literal block?

* A 3rd possibility is do the mark-up word by word. But then, how can I insert tabs to enforce vertical alignment?

	thanks in advance

	Gary Mamon

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