From: schwarze@mandoc.bsd.lv
To: source@mandoc.bsd.lv
Subject: mandoc: Even though we strongly discourage escaping hyphens in manual
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 09:31:18 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c89ee85c71394a04@fantadrom.bsd.lv> (raw)
Log Message:
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Even though we strongly discourage escaping hyphens in manual pages
in general, when introducing the *typographic* term "hyphen",
actually display a real hyphen in output modes supporting it.
Modified Files:
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mandoc:
mandoc_char.7
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RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/mandoc_char.7,v
retrieving revision 1.71
retrieving revision 1.72
diff -Lmandoc_char.7 -Lmandoc_char.7 -u -p -r1.71 -r1.72
--- mandoc_char.7
+++ mandoc_char.7
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ escape sequences to represent national l
names; instead, provide ASCII transcriptions of the names.
.Ss Dashes and Hyphens
In typography there are different types of dashes of various width:
-the hyphen (-),
+the hyphen (\(hy),
the en-dash (\(en),
the em-dash (\(em),
and the mathematical minus sign (\(mi).
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