From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-it0-f49.google.com (mail-it0-f49.google.com [209.85.214.49]) by fantadrom.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 4acdd267 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2017 09:55:30 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-it0-f49.google.com with SMTP id h10so50523348ith.1 for ; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 06:55:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cathet-us.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=sender:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references:comments:mime-version :content-id:content-transfer-encoding:date:message-id; bh=MJl4UlRqxg4IbzD3Er4BpOxwyKEvHlqBm2TfAkSq9zM=; b=jHzIwG/zDCgjYxGKNpscW9gj/p/gw2dFiMBf5dW3cr8UMwDCykOKvnYMjhdlE1i3Bv nVzyyXfhtdaYzl+6IuHFFr1UUDkUPxLaPu/zuoRC7Z8H9ygR7363a+2Ei2bPEgOU8Hb7 z7GeCNss4kzaQgyB5ImwVnzuSORfDOk4b/WBoMg8s+ztVxVyx0hjUlfBCPkP4pGhO3wC VjB4It90IiONjpEMM2u2ggldNcdmfxY6V2eyYo1NYuQITRBSqxk8P/yPu+rLo7srZ6Ga cL3pSpAxJWsuDZawgrQZsQoUgJCNdTyI+ssDBWTRyTFCIRAxaZOyVFeSRIvn9OPKYmqo hKgA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references :comments:mime-version:content-id:content-transfer-encoding:date :message-id; bh=MJl4UlRqxg4IbzD3Er4BpOxwyKEvHlqBm2TfAkSq9zM=; b=Gwx0WcfLpUCxysNxdminBbwtaPmzZjI2vaHWhdc57LIvf5BrvyzzegJRk4CBM8lEcm dwCrFVB8iPyVpnds8oq5CeKhAyUQSuXj0EswOpzJeMyUwk5EMzt+vkmEkbvZavpvPwsg +LE9bUt2FwtXo1zLuvOQqKeLFijvg8KSQov8CXTd3TI8fBXScKE6flaI5vukQ9FIF0xF mRpNWJZH0ato0dVBxm14+AooAmLFel5DB10x5mFx9F10HizJwSQTn+Clh8bwsQ0mxR1j eOklvP7rcfWmT65IebrvRN1xiZxTYy50S5fJ26/J8pmN3kfmqlyf0zOV33xVHnEgRgsp wU4g== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39n1tXUvjf96rEh23L1BN03MZbAxQktAdpf2kydxjKHnzOx3uJUe50Dn/QfNJVFcLw== X-Received: by 10.36.98.80 with SMTP id d77mr13487861itc.99.1488812127859; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 06:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from cathet.us. (67-0-67-185.albq.qwest.net. [67.0.67.185]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l198sm4991214ita.10.2017.03.06.06.55.27 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Mon, 06 Mar 2017 06:55:27 -0800 (PST) Sender: "Anthony J. Bentley" Received: from cathet.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cathet.us. (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 1ff06cf5 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2017 07:55:26 -0700 (MST) From: "Anthony J. Bentley" To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: Dashes and strange markup In-reply-to: <86wpc2ac39.fsf@desk.des.no> References: <86wpc2ac39.fsf@desk.des.no> Comments: In-reply-to =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= message dated "Mon, 06 Mar 2017 12:17:30 +0100." X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-ID: <1574.1488812125.1@cathet.us> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 07:55:25 -0700 Message-ID: <22192.1488812125@cathet.us> Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > | .Sh NAME > | .Nm beastie.4th > | .Nd FreeBSD ASCII art boot module > | .Sh DESCRIPTION > | The file that goes by the name of > | .Nm > | is a set of commands designed to draw the ASCII art FreeBSD mascot > | .Nd known simply as > | .Ic beastie > | .Nd to the right of the boot loader menu. Mandoc's behavior aside, this manual should be using \(em or \(en instead of .Nd here. > The next issue is that I tried to replace .Nd with either \(en and \(em, > but the former is rendered as a single hyphen and the latter as two > hyphens, instead of actual en- or em-dashes. Is that intentional? \(en and \(em become en and em dashes in a Unicode locale. In an ASCII locale, they become one and two hyphens, respectively. > The third issue is that according to conventional English typography[*], > the correct usage is an em-dash with no surrounding spaces, and I can't > figure out how to suppress the spaces, short of gluing everything > together (like\(em\&this). I don't really understand the question here. If you put spaces in, there will be spaces. If you don't, there won't be. It's common usage to just leave out the spaces. For example, with double quotes: \(lqquotation here\(rq -- Anthony J. Bentley -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv