From: "Dag-Erling Smørgrav" <des@des.no>
To: "Anthony J. Bentley" <anthony@anjbe.name>
Cc: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: Dashes and strange markup
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:52:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86d1dupct5.fsf@desk.des.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22192.1488812125@cathet.us> (Anthony J. Bentley's message of "Mon, 06 Mar 2017 07:55:25 -0700")
"Anthony J. Bentley" <anthony@anjbe.name> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > 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.
My locale is en_GB.UTF-8, but it turns out I was looking at the page
with two different versions of mandoc, and while the older version
(1.12.1) didn't format the dashes properly, the newer one does.
> > The third issue is that [...] 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.
That's OK, it was meant exactly as you interpreted it :)
DES
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-06 11:17 Dag-Erling Smørgrav
2017-03-06 14:55 ` Anthony J. Bentley
2017-03-06 16:52 ` Dag-Erling Smørgrav [this message]
2017-03-06 15:57 ` Ingo Schwarze
2017-03-06 16:39 ` Dag-Erling Smørgrav
2017-03-06 17:34 ` Ingo Schwarze
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