Re: [Groff] hyphen vs. minus sign

[Gunnar Ritter]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

>     At the same time, we could say that they
>     should revert to `-' instead of `\-' which is easier to remember,
>     and which gives better appearance in the manpage source files.

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.

        Gunnar