In the last episode (Feb 10), Roman Neuhauser said:
> Hi there,
> 
> two quick mdoc(7) questions:
> 
> I'm writing a man page for a utility I'm writing, and I want the option
> listing look like this:
> 
> OPTIONS
>      -h, --help
>          Print a brief help message.
> 
>      -n, --dry-run
>          Don't actually connect to the server. DDL generated by mktable.php
>          is output on stdout.
> 
>      -H, --host=host
>          Connect to server on host.

> This is what I have right now:
> 
> .Sh OPTIONS
> .Bl -ohang -compact

Try  .Bl -tag -width "indent"    here instead.  That creates a list with
"tags" or headers, and the description indented by the width of the
word "indent".  


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        Dan Nelson
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