On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:02:41AM +0200, Gunnar Ritter wrote: > > No, you cannot, since using \- is not an advice that > has been introduced by you (even though you may have > advised it). Proper manual pages have used \- since > Unix 7th edition at least. Moreover, they have often > used regular or bold font for command line examples. > > I would recommend to map \- to U+002D for all output > devices that use ASCII codes.
I concur with this advice. The use of \- is long-established, and as someone who has written manpages for Debian, I can tell you that bold and italic fonts are often used for at least the synopsis section (see e.g. groff(1)). I will admit that it is difficult to get people to use \- instead of -, but there's really no alternative. I'm pretty sure that all other troff implementations map \- to U+002D (mine does as of the latest commit). -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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