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Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 15:36:47 -0400
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

At 2017-04-22T16:15:48+0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> "G. Branden Robinson" <address@hidden> wrote:
>  |At 2017-04-21T21:56:24-0400, Doug McIlroy wrote:
>  |> I think it's pretty hopeless to ask for AI that can tell
>  |> whether a pasted symbol is a hyphen or a minus sign.
>  |> The answer is likely to depend on whether it is being
>  |> pasted into a program or into a document.
>  |
>  |Here's my attempt at clarifying the issue.
> 
> I for myself will keep all that in my queue; but i think it will
> be better to write something like "unless documented otherwise",
> and then add such notes for man(7) and mdoc(7).

Sounds reasonable.  Interested in a revised patch to do just that?  ;-)

Regards,
Branden

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