About time I fixed this: allow for some people's md5sum utilities

[sgt/halibut] / doc / running.but

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@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+\versionid $Id$
+
 \C{running} Running Halibut
 
 \I{running Halibut}In the simplest case, running Halibut is very
@@ -124,13 +126,13 @@ additional files \c{output.info-1}, \c{output.info-2} and so on.
 \dt \i\cw{--ps}[\cw{=}\e{filename}]
 
 \dd Specifies that you want to generate PostScript output. You
-can optionally specify a file name (e.g. \c{--man=myfile.ps}), in
+can optionally specify a file name (e.g. \c{--ps=myfile.ps}), in
 which case Halibut will change the name of the output file as well.
 
 \dt \i\cw{--pdf}[\cw{=}\e{filename}]
 
 \dd Specifies that you want to generate PDF output. You
-can optionally specify a file name (e.g. \c{--man=myfile.pdf}), in
+can optionally specify a file name (e.g. \c{--pdf=myfile.pdf}), in
 which case Halibut will change the name of the output file as well.
 
 If you do not specify any of the above options, Halibut will simply
@@ -163,6 +165,10 @@ might have to type four backslashes on your shell command line. This
 is not part of Halibut's own behaviour, and it cannot do anything
 about it.)
 
+Configuration directives created in this way take effect after all
+other input has been processed. (In most cases, this has the effect of
+overriding any other instances of the directive in the input.)
+
 }
 
 The options which set the output file names actually work by
@@ -172,12 +178,32 @@ identically to \c{--text -Ctext-filename:myfile.txt}. The Windows
 Help and man page formats work similarly. HTML is slightly
 different, since it also arranges for single-file output if you pass
 a filename to \c{--html}; so \c{--html=myfile.html} is equivalent to
-\c{--html -Cxhtml-single-filename:myfile.html -Cxhtml-leaf-level:0}.
+\c{--html -Chtml-single-filename:myfile.html -Chtml-leaf-level:0}.
 (See \k{output} for explanations of all these configuration
 directives.)
 
 In addition to these, there are also a few other options:
 
+\dt \i\cw{--input-charset}\cw{=}\e{charset}
+
+\dd Changes the default assumed \i{character set} for all input files from
+ASCII to something else. (\cw{-Cinput-charset} cannot be used for
+this, as \cw{-C} directives are processed after all other input, so
+wouldn't affect any files.)
+
+\lcont{
+
+Any \cw{\\cfg\{input-charset\}} directives within input files override
+this option.
+
+See \k{input-config} for more information about the input character set.
+
+}
+
+\dt \I{character sets, enumerating}\i\cw{--list-charsets}
+
+\dd List character sets known to Halibut.
+
 \dt \i\cw{--help}
 
 \dd Print a brief help message and exit immediately. (Don't confuse