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+The traditionnal way of marking commandline flags in a manpage is with a `.B` (for Bold, I guess). It doesn't seem to be used by mdwn2man, which makes the manpage look a little more dull than it could.
+
+The following patch makes those options come out more obviously:
+
+[[!format diff """
+diff --git a/Build/mdwn2man b/Build/mdwn2man
+index ba5919b..7f819ad 100755
+--- a/Build/mdwn2man
++++ b/Build/mdwn2man
+@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ print ".TH $prog $section\n";
+
+ while (<>) {
+        s{(\\?)\[\[([^\s\|\]]+)(\|[^\s\]]+)?\]\]}{$1 ? "[[$2]]" : $2}eg;
++       s/\`([^\`]*)\`/\\fB$1\\fP/g;
+        s/\`//g;
+        s/^\s*\./\\&./g;
+        if (/^#\s/) {
+"""]]
+
+I tested it against the git-annex manpage and it seems to work well. --[[anarcat]]