From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from localhost (fantadrom.bsd.lv [local]) by fantadrom.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 411d5995 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2018 09:31:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 09:31:18 -0500 (EST) X-Mailinglist: mandoc-source Reply-To: source@mandoc.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 From: schwarze@mandoc.bsd.lv To: source@mandoc.bsd.lv Subject: mandoc: Even though we strongly discourage escaping hyphens in manual X-Mailer: activitymail 1.26, http://search.cpan.org/dist/activitymail/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Message-Id: Log Message: ----------- 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: -------------- mandoc: mandoc_char.7 Revision Data ------------- Index: mandoc_char.7 =================================================================== 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). -- To unsubscribe send an email to source+unsubscribe@mandoc.bsd.lv