Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2017-04-20T18:04:00-0600, Clarke Echols wrote:
> When I was responsible for all of the manpages in HP's HP-UX (Unix)
> reference manual and online, I always *typeset* with Courier bold, and
> used the simple hyphen character because it was all monospace.
> 
> Courier was standard for all literals in SYNTAX, including command
> name, and options such as -r, -f, etc.  Only variable arguments such
> as "filename", directory name, etc.  were always in italic.  This
> convention was also used in the DESCRIPTION, EXAMPLES, and other such
> sections.
> 
> If a minus sign appeared in regular text, I always used \(mi.
[...]
> I used the .C name for macros, as in .CI, .IC, for command lines in the
> SYNOPSIS.

What was/is the distinction between the "Syntax" and "Synopsis"
headings?  I've only seen the former occasionally, and when I have, it's
been exactly what is elsewhere called a "Synopsis".

Regards,
Branden

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