Follow-up Comment #8, bug #68765 (group groff):

[comment #2 comment #2:]
> The hyphen after the colon is my foible! There is a discussion about it
> here:-
> 
> https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/31060/is-it-proper-to-use-a-colon-followed-immediately-by-a-hyphen/142017#
> 
> It should be a longer dash but given all my school work was on an olivetti
> electric typewriter (after the motor burned out IBM donated a reconditioned
> model to me) a hyphen was all I had.

Oh, sorry then - I had no idea such a thing existed. Thanks for an interesting
thing to read about :).



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