mscore doc still documents removed feature

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needs review regression MS3
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The Musescore documentation about the command line usage (CLI) available at https://handbook.musescore.org/appendix/command-line-usage still mentions the -p options.

However the mscore binary does not have this anymore.

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❯ mscore -p
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjack.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss3.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenGL.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpipewire-0.3.so.0
MuseScore4: Unknown option 'p'.
In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?

4.6.5

Regression

Yes, this used to work in MuseScore 3.x and now is broken

Operating system

Everywhere

Additional context

This is about aligning the documentation.

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