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-.TH ABCDE 1
+.TH abcde 1
 .SH NAME
 abcde \- Grab an entire CD and compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format.
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -94,10 +94,12 @@ Non interactive mode. Do not ask anything from the user. Just go ahead.
 Create DOS-style playlists, modifying the resulting one by adding CRLF line
 endings. Some hardware players insist on having those to work.
 .TP
-.B \-o [filetype]
-Select output type. Can be "ogg", "mp3", "flac", "spx" or "mpc". Specify a 
-comma-delimited list of output types to obtain all specified types. See 
-the OUTPUTTYPE configuration variable.
+.B \-o [filetype][:filetypeoptions]
+Select output type. Can be "vorbis" (or "ogg"), "mp3", "flac", "spx" or "mpc".
+Specify a comma-delimited list of output types to obtain all specified types.
+See the OUTPUTTYPE configuration variable. One can pass options to the encoder
+for a specific filetype on the command line separating them with a colon. The
+options must be escaped with double-quotes.
 .TP
 .B \-p
 Pads track numbers with 0\'s.
@@ -152,7 +154,7 @@ Each track is, by default, placed in a separate file named after the track
 in a subdirectory named after the artist under the current directory. 
 This can be modified using the OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT
 variables in your abcde.conf. Each file is given an extension identifying 
-its compression format, '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', or '.mpc'.
+its compression format, 'vorbis' for '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', or '.mpc'.
 .SH CONFIGURATION
 abcde sources two configuration files on startup - /etc/abcde.conf and
 $HOME/.abcde.conf, in that order. 
@@ -280,15 +282,15 @@ over 100MB for a machine that can encode music as fast as it can read it).
 .TP
 .B OUTPUTTYPE
 Specifies the encoding format to output, as well as the default extension and
-encoder. Defaults to "ogg". Valid settings are "ogg" (Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3"
-(MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex)
-and "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)). Values like "ogg,mp3" encode the tracks in 
-both Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats.
+encoder. Defaults to "vorbis". Valid settings are "vorbis" (or "ogg")
+(Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3" (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio
+Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex) and "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)). Values like
+"vorbis,mp3" encode the tracks in both Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats.
 .br
 For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, abcde expands a different process for encoding,
 tagging and moving, so you can use the format placeholder, OUTPUT, to create 
 different subdirectories to hold the different types. The variable OUTPUT will
-be 'ogg', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx' and/or 'mpc', depending on the OUTPUTTYPE you define.
+be 'vorbis', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx' and/or 'mpc', depending on the OUTPUTTYPE you define.
 For example
 .br
 OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}._${TRACKFILE}'
@@ -380,6 +382,25 @@ after all tracks have been read.
 If set to "y", some operations which are usually now shown to the end user
 are visible, such as CDDB queries. Usefull for initial debug and if your
 network/CDDB server is slow.
+.SH EXAMPLES
+Possible ways one can call abcdeÑ
+.TP
+.B abcde
+Will work in most systems
+.TP
+.B abcde -d /dev/cdrom2
+If the CDROM you are reding from is not the standard /dev/cdrom (in GNU/Linux systems)
+.TP
+.B abcde -o vorbis,flac
+Will create both Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC files.
+.TP
+.B abcde -o vorbis:"-b 192"
+Will pass "-b 192" to the Ogg/Vorbis encoder, without having to modify the
+config file
+.TP
+.B abcde -W 1
+For double CDs settings: will create the 1st CD starting with the track number
+101, and will add a comment "CD 1" to the tracks
 .SH BACKEND TOOLS
 abcde requires the following backend tools to work:
 .TP