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

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

"G. Branden Robinson" <address@hidden> wrote:
 |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?  ;-)

Maybe so?  But, like its name says...
A nice rest-weekend i wish.

--steffen

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