[Libreoffice] Improved man page

Philipp Weissenbacher p.weissenbacher at gmail.com
Fri Dec 17 18:30:18 PST 2010


Hi all,

As I've promised on IRC some time ago, I updated and extended the
Go-OO man page for LibreOffice (see attachment).

Important changes to the old [1] one:
* Adapted it for LibreOffice
*Added -infilter, -convert-to and -print-to-file options (with
examples) from /libs-core/desktop/source/app/cmdlinehelp.cxx
*Tried out most arguments and discovered that some of them accept
multiple files (like -show)

While reading and testing, some question arose, which I couldn't find
an answer to:

What's the difference between -invisible and -headless?

Why are there so many arguments to disable showing a splash screen
-minimized/-nosplash/-nologo/-no-oosplash (from libreoffice.sh)?

What does -nodefault do?
Should we keep the reference to OO.o or drop it (we don't really need it)?
Nevermind what is said, -quickstart still works (and thus I added it).

I have no idea what -nolockcheck does.

What are valid filters for -infilter?

Also, we should add a FILES section to document where the
configuration files are.

This is my first contribution to a major FOSS project and I've never
written a man page before.
Hope I could help.


Philipp

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/build/plain/man/openoffice.1.in
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