Henry Spencer wrote on 2002-12-04 20:11 UTC:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > When "--help" is printed, I want to see two hyphens, not a dash.
> 
> You probably want to see two minus signs, not two hyphens...

You probably want to see two HYPHEN-MINUS characters, which are in the
Postscript standard fonts only provided by Courier. Attempting to output
a HYPHEN-MINUS character in a non-typewriter font should perhaps lead to
warning messages for the author.

Markus

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