On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 03:35:21PM -0400, Peter Piwowarski wrote:
> This patch replaces some literal '-' with '\-' in examples for sndio-
> related manpages. Certain roff implementations may render '-' as a
> hyphen (unicode U+2010) rather than a minus sign (unicode U+002D or ascii 
> 0x2D); while mandoc renders them as intended with or without
> the escape, it should be more portable to use it. Found with Debian's
> lintian tool while packaging portable sndio for Debian; if there is
> interest I can fix any other instances in the tree that I can find.

replacing - by \- in literals produces identical files; tried
mandoc and latest groff (1.22.3) with utf8, ps and html outputs, so
I don't see how this could hurt.

schwarze, jmc, opinions?

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