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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: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 07:50:18 -0400
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

At 2017-04-24T12:16:39+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Judging by the lack of suggestions, I'm assuming `\-' is the best bet to
> get a paste-able ASCII `-'.

I certainly believe that is the intent of the an and doc macro package
authors.

$ grep -n -3 45 /usr/share/groff/current/tmac/{an,doc}*.tmac
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/an-old.tmac-678-.if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/an-old.tmac-679-.  rchar \- - ' `
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/an-old.tmac-680-.
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/an-old.tmac:681:.  char \- \N'45'
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/an-old.tmac:682:.  char  - \N'45'
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/an-old.tmac-683-.  char  ' \N'39'
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/an-old.tmac-684-.  char  ` \N'96'
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/an-old.tmac-685-.\}
--
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/doc.tmac-3453-.ec
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/doc.tmac-3454-.if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/doc.tmac-3455-.rchar \- - ' `
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/doc.tmac:3456:.char \- \N'45'
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/doc.tmac:3457:.char  - \N'45'
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/doc.tmac-3458-.char  ' \N'39'
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/doc.tmac-3459-.char  ` \N'96'
/usr/share/groff/current/tmac/doc.tmac-3460-.\}

Regards,
Branden



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