In comments to one of my recent ImageMagick questions, Fred Weinhaus noted:

Note that -quality is a setting for the write, not a setting for -rotate, as it comes after -rotate and before the output. (It could come before -rotate only because ImagaMagick is somewhat forgiving of syntax errors.)

Is there a reference (a section at ImageMagick’s website, an article, or something similar) that descibes/explains the order in which ImageMagick command-line options should be specified? I mean not the order that “just works” (by forgiving errors, as Fred pointed above), but the order that will really make sense, the proper one.