That does not matter for single dash and letter options. For double dash long options I like to split them on different lines so that you still have a lot of ho

That does not matter for single dash and letter options. For double dash long options I like to split them on different lines so that you still have a lot of horizontal space for the descriptions themselves even with very ling option names, so a brute force way: This is a man page with a list of .I flags below .P .BR --flag : .RS Description of flag1 .RE .P .BR --secondflag : .RS Description of secondflag .RE .P Also for real tables: $ man tbl