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Print the version and exit 0.
.SH PRETTY OUTPUT
.B \-\-pretty
-lays the rows out for a terminal rather than for
+draws each day as its own box rather than as a row for
.BR awk (1):
-aligned columns, the day's liturgical colour as a filled circle, and
-commemorations on their own indented line instead of lengthening the row.
+a heading with the date and the liturgical colour, then the celebration, its
+rank and season, and any commemorations \-\- each on its own line inside the
+box.
+.PP
+The box art is
+.B pure ASCII
+\-\- only
+.BR + ", " \- " and " | ,
+never Unicode box-drawing. That is deliberate: this format exists to be pasted
+or piped into a document, a mail or a plain-text ordo, and U+2500 and its
+relatives survive that only when every stage agrees about encoding and font.
+.B +\-\-\-+
+has never failed to render anywhere. Column alignment counts UTF\-8 code
+points rather than bytes, so a name carrying
+.RB \(lq \(ha \(rq
+or a ligature still lines the right edge up.
.PP
Accepted by
.BR day ", " readings ", " rubrics " and " temporal .