Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 07/26] Escape ASCII hyphen-minus characters used as such.

2022-07-20 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Branden, On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:40:52 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2018-06-20T11:33:25+0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > 247:following syntax - colon (:) separated list of elements, each > > being of > > The foregoing should probably be an em dash. In *roff you can obtain it > with

Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 07/26] Escape ASCII hyphen-minus characters used as such.

2022-07-20 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Branden, On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:40:52 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2018-06-20T11:33:25+0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:39 -0400, g.branden.robin...@gmail.com wrote: > > > When a "literal" ASCII 45 hyphen-minus character is desired, it has > > > to be

Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 07/26] Escape ASCII hyphen-minus characters used as such.

2022-07-12 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Jean, At 2018-06-20T11:33:25+0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:39 -0400, g.branden.robin...@gmail.com wrote: > > When a "literal" ASCII 45 hyphen-minus character is desired, it has > > to be escaped; this is a requirement going all the way back to Bell > > Labs Troff, but

Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 07/26] Escape ASCII hyphen-minus characters used as such.

2018-06-20 Thread Jean Delvare
On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:39 -0400, g.branden.robin...@gmail.com wrote: > When a "literal" ASCII 45 hyphen-minus character is desired, it has to > be escaped; this is a requirement going all the way back to Bell Labs > Troff, but is frequently overlooked. Getting it right enables > accurate

[Quilt-dev] [patch 07/26] Escape ASCII hyphen-minus characters used as such.

2018-06-16 Thread g . branden . robinson
When a "literal" ASCII 45 hyphen-minus character is desired, it has to be escaped; this is a requirement going all the way back to Bell Labs Troff, but is frequently overlooked. Getting it right enables accurate cut-and-paste of code examples, filenames, URLs, and so forth from roff documents