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


From: Steffen Nurpmeso
Subject: 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



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