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 0fd24ad5 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2019 14:17:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 14:17:57 -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: While we do encourage simplicity in the sense of writing plain X-Mailer: activitymail 1.26, http://search.cpan.org/dist/activitymail/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Message-ID: Log Message: ----------- 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: -------------- mandoc: mandoc_char.7 Revision Data ------------- Index: mandoc_char.7 =================================================================== 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 -- To unsubscribe send an email to source+unsubscribe@mandoc.bsd.lv