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

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

Doug 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.

Right.  I'm happy for the typist to put in the effort.  Perhaps I'm
getting too hung up on making the output be pasteable, but it's
annoying, and not obvious to some, why `foo‐bar' doesn't run when pasted
from foo-bar(1).

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