Consolidating command-line options

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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While translating the AU to German, I realized that currently our applications 
have similar options, but use different shortcuts for them. In particular, 
some converters use -V for verbose and -v for version, while others use -v 
for verbose and -V for version... Shouldn't we change this so that at least 
all applications that come together with lilypond use the same option names?

While the GNU coding standard does not give any suggestions on the short 
option names, most command-line utilities use -v for --verbose and -V (or no 
short option) for --version. Thus I propose to use the following "standard" 
options consistently for lilypond, lilypond-book, *2ly, convert-ly, etc.:

- -h, --help     ... usage and options
- -o, --output   ... output file
- -v, --verbose  ... verbose
- -V, --version  ... version number
- -w, --warranty ... warranty and copyright

Some converters also don't have a --warranty option yet...

What do you think?

Cheers,
Reinhold
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Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
email: address@hidden, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
 * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/
 * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer
 * Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/
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