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From: schwarze@mandoc.bsd.lv
To: source@mandoc.bsd.lv
Subject: mandoc: While we do encourage simplicity in the sense of writing plain
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 14:17:57 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3fd09b116e41fd9@fantadrom.bsd.lv> (raw)

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While we do encourage simplicity in the sense of writing plain '-'
for hyphen-minus, soften the language a bit: writing \- for it is
not wrong, and people started sending us patches to replace \- with '-'
in existing manual pages, which is not a worthwhile change unless
the \- is used at a place where it doesn't belong.
OK jmc@

Modified Files:
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    mandoc:
        mandoc_char.7

Revision Data
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Index: mandoc_char.7
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RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/mandoc_char.7,v
retrieving revision 1.75
retrieving revision 1.76
diff -Lmandoc_char.7 -Lmandoc_char.7 -u -p -r1.75 -r1.76
--- mandoc_char.7
+++ mandoc_char.7
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ supporting it, for example in
 .Fl T Cm utf8
 and
 .Fl T Cm html .
-But currently, no practically relevant manual page formatter actually
-requires that subtlety, so in manual pages just write plain
+But currently, no practically relevant manual page formatter requires
+that subtlety, so in manual pages, it is sufficient to write plain
 .Sq -
 to represent hyphen, minus, and hyphen-minus.
 .Pp
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