Refine command line option preprocessor and add tests for #8956.

The substantive change here is the `-strue` will now work
instead of being interpreted as `-s -true`.

This is somewhat ad hoc, but I don't think we'll ever have
an output format named `rue`, so it's probably okay.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/App/CommandLineOptions.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/App/CommandLineOptions.hs
index 22e824ade..e76344088 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/App/CommandLineOptions.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/App/CommandLineOptions.hs
@@ -238,8 +238,16 @@ pdfEngines = nubOrd $ map snd engines
 preprocessArgs :: [String] -> [String]
 preprocessArgs [] = []
 preprocessArgs ("--":xs) = "--" : xs -- a bare '--' ends option parsing
+-- note that -strue is interpreted as -strue while
+-- -stmarkdown is interpreted as -s -tmarkdown
 preprocessArgs (('-':c:d:cs):xs)
   | isShortBooleanOpt c
+  , case toLower <$> (d:cs) of
+      "true" -> True
+      "false" -> True
+      _ -> False
+    = ('-':c:d:cs) : preprocessArgs xs
+  | isShortBooleanOpt c
   , isShortOpt d = splitArg (c:d:cs) ++ preprocessArgs xs
 preprocessArgs (x:xs) = x : preprocessArgs xs