"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> wrote: |At 2017-04-22T16:15:48+0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> "G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> 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? ;-)
Maybe so? But, like its name says... A nice rest-weekend i wish. --steffen
diff --git a/man/groff.7.man b/man/groff.7.man index ed53ca1a..c4e636a1 100644 --- a/man/groff.7.man +++ b/man/groff.7.man @@ -2824,7 +2824,15 @@ Unescaped: left quote, backquote (ASCII 0x60). . .TP .ESC - -The \- (minus) sign in the current font. +The mathematical \- (minus) sign in the current font. +Some macro packages, namely +.BR groff_man (7) +and +.BR groff_mdoc (7) , +which support generation of Unix manual pages, map this to +U+002D hyphen-minus instead. +(E.g., this usually allows for copy and paste usage of +manual content.) . .TP .ESC _ diff --git a/man/groff_char.7.man b/man/groff_char.7.man index 1869f951..719b9f1c 100644 --- a/man/groff_char.7.man +++ b/man/groff_char.7.man @@ -268,7 +268,10 @@ single quotation mark; the original character can be obtained with .TP .B - the ISO \%latin1 \[oq]Hyphen, Minus Sign\[cq] (code\ 45) prints as a -hyphen; a minus sign can be obtained with \[oq]\f(CW\e-\fP\[cq]. +hyphen; a mathematical minus sign can be obtained with +\[oq]\f(CW\e(mi\fP\[cq]. +Explicit symbols can be found in the table +.BR Punctuation . . . .TP diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man b/tmac/groff_man.7.man index f207ef6d..e618f775 100644 --- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man +++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man @@ -1135,6 +1135,14 @@ preprocessor(s). .SH "PORTABILITY AND TROFF REQUESTS" .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------- . +The +.B man +macros remap some characters, e.g., the minus sign \-. +To gain specific punctuation and other symbols it is advisable +to use explicit requests, see +.BR groff_char (7) +for more. +. Since the .B man macros consist of groups of diff --git a/tmac/groff_mdoc.7.man b/tmac/groff_mdoc.7.man index 5968d0b6..36541720 100644 --- a/tmac/groff_mdoc.7.man +++ b/tmac/groff_mdoc.7.man @@ -4147,6 +4147,14 @@ A normal user will never need it. . .Sh "FORMATTING WITH GROFF, TROFF, AND NROFF" . +The +.Nm +macros remap some characters, e.g., the minus sign \-. +To gain specific punctuation and other symbols it is advisable +to use explicit requests, see +.Xr groff_char 7 +for more. +.Pp By default, the package inhibits page breaks, headers, and footers if displayed with a .Tn TTY
