Hello, world!\n
In my opinion, the quotes by "<pattern>", "{" and "}" is confusing too. And a comma should be probably quoted too in this case. New line before available flags is possible but inconsistent.
As far as I remember my original intentions years ago, { and } are ambiguous, because they can be understood meta-syntantically as well as literally. Hence quoting. Comma bears no such ambiguity. This notwithstanding, if people have problems with parsing the help texts, we should improve the texts. Please keep the syntax descriptions consistent, though. (It might be helpful to give a formal definition of the meta-language somewhere in the manual.) Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://mj.ucw.cz/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth There is no place like ~