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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: |
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 08:18:28 -0400 |
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NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) |
At 2017-04-24T13:08:17+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Branden,
>
> > I certainly believe that is the intent of the an and doc macro package
> > authors.
> ...
> > /usr/share/groff/current/tmac/an-old.tmac:681:. char \- \N'45'
> > /usr/share/groff/current/tmac/an-old.tmac:682:. char - \N'45'
>
> Yes, but they nobble `-' too, so I could just write a sloppy man page
> with `-', never using `\-', and it would paste from the terminal.
Yeah--that's a sop to the sloppy, perhaps an ill-advised one.
Debian's groff packages have the following in /etc/groff/man.local:
. \" Debian: Strictly, "-" is a hyphen while "\-" is a minus sign, and the
. \" former may not always be rendered in the form expected for things like
. \" command-line options. Uncomment this if you want to make sure that
. \" manual pages you're writing are clear of this problem.
. \" UNCOMMENTED: branden, 2017-04-08
. if '\*[.T]'utf8' \
. char - \[hy]
> But there's other -T in groff,
Right--even groff's macro packages only offer this sop on the UTF-8
device.
> and other troffs than groff too, with their
> own -man.
True, but even Heirloom troff goes to considerable effort to be groff-
compatible.
What would you like to see?
Regards,
Branden
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., (continued)
Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., Ralph Corderoy, 2017/04/22
Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., Steffen Nurpmeso, 2017/04/22
Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., Doug McIlroy, 2017/04/23
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/24
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., Ralph Corderoy, 2017/04/24
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/24
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., Ralph Corderoy, 2017/04/24
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.,
G. Branden Robinson <=
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., Ingo Schwarze, 2017/04/24
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., Carsten Kunze, 2017/04/25
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/25
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., Ingo Schwarze, 2017/04/25
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/25
Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., Ralph Corderoy, 2017/04/26
Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/26
Re: [Groff] bug in macro '.IR' (was ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages)., Bjarni Ingi Gislason, 2017/04/27
Re: [Groff] bug in macro '.IR' (was ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages)., G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/28
Re: [Groff] bug in macro '.IR' (was ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages)., Werner LEMBERG, 2017/04/28