From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by fantadrom.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id c9c4d650 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:52:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from desk.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F8E80F0; Mon, 6 Mar 2017 16:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by desk.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 118FD4D3B; Mon, 6 Mar 2017 17:52:54 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: "Anthony J. Bentley" Cc: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: Dashes and strange markup References: <86wpc2ac39.fsf@desk.des.no> <22192.1488812125@cathet.us> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:52:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: <22192.1488812125@cathet.us> (Anthony J. Bentley's message of "Mon, 06 Mar 2017 07:55:25 -0700") Message-ID: <86d1dupct5.fsf@desk.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (berkeley-unix) X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Anthony J. Bentley" writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav 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 --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv