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Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.
From: |
G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages. |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 15:36:47 -0400 |
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NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) |
At 2017-04-22T16:15:48+0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> "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).
Sounds reasonable. Interested in a revised patch to do just that? ;-)
Regards,
Branden
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Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., Doug McIlroy, 2017/04/23
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/24
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., Ralph Corderoy, 2017/04/24
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/24
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., Ralph Corderoy, 2017/04/24
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/24
- Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages., Ingo Schwarze, 2017/04/24