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Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.
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Steffen Nurpmeso |
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Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages. |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:15:48 +0200 |
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"G. Branden Robinson" <address@hidden> wrote:
|At 2017-04-21T21:56:24-0400, Doug McIlroy wrote:
|> I think it's pretty hopeless to ask for AI that can tell
|> whether a pasted symbol is a hyphen or a minus sign.
|> The answer is likely to depend on whether it is being
|> pasted into a program or into a document.
|
|Here's my attempt at clarifying the issue.
I for myself will keep all that in my queue; but i think it will
be better to write something like "unless documented otherwise",
and then add such notes for man(7) and mdoc(7).
--steffen
Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., Doug McIlroy, 2017/04/23