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On Wed, Aug 15, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Stanley Lieber wrote:
> On Aug 15, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com> wrote:
> 
> > IMO, the approach that makes the most sense in this case is to \- escape the troff sources of the problem man pages.
> 
> It would probably still be wise to, in addition, still try to address 
> this somehow in wman itself. Not every wman user is willing or able to 
> modify whatever man pages it is used to display.

I think wman could filter the troff source before passing it to nroff.
This substitution might do:

s/([a-z]+)(-[a-z]+\([0-9]\))/\1\\\2/g

It's untested because I'm not with it today.  
Can't find the mail with the problem statement 
or previous solutions.