#2 mwaw2csv incompatible with help2man

[Christopher Yeleighton]

[ 550s] + help2man mwaw2csv
[ 550s] help2man: can't get `--help' info from mwaw2csv

[David Tardon]

Just use

help2man --help-option=-h mwaw2csv

. Anyway, the tool is so simple it hardly needs any man page.

[Christopher Yeleighton]

html2man is exactly for simple tools that hardly need any man page.
Your workaround gives a wrong result though:

.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.43.3.
.TH USAGE: "1" "February 2014" "Usage: mwaw2csv [OPTION][-o file.csv] <AppleWorks/ClarisWorks Database/Spreadsheet>" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
Usage: \- manual page for Usage: mwaw2csv [OPTION][-o file.csv] <AppleWorks/ClarisWorks Database/Spreadsheet>

[David Tardon]

So something on the first line does not fit the pattern help2man uses. That is hardly our fault.

Btw, using --help-option is not a workaround. To cover cases other than the most common (or simple) one is the reason tools do have options. And plain "help2man mwaw2csv" actually works too (help2man 1.43.3).

[alonso laurent]

I just downloaded help2man and do some tests, you need also to define the version string. I.e.

help2man --help-option=-h --version-string=0.1.9 mwaw2csv

will probably give much better result...

[alonso laurent]

Just for note, when libmwaw-0.3.0 will be released, the man created by

help2man --help-option=-h --version-option=-v --no-discard-stderr EXECUTABLE

will look better (see https://sourceforge.net/p/libmwaw/libmwaw/ci/256f795e6308dad4f312649f84ff1c4006ce12be/ )...