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| author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2019-03-31 19:17:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2019-03-31 19:17:26 +0000 |
| commit | 06760af86de65d166c2f863a13bccced7f7dfb8d (patch) | |
| tree | f5645cab23548a80c499fbb8c9768edc3e312164 | |
| parent | 4e02ff5bbc7d9dfafc781a1534b153cae8cea86c (diff) | |
| download | mandoc-06760af86de65d166c2f863a13bccced7f7dfb8d.tar.gz | |
While we do encourage simplicity in the sense of writing plain '-'
for hyphen-minus, soften the language a bit: writing \- for it is
not wrong, and people started sending us patches to replace \- with '-'
in existing manual pages, which is not a worthwhile change unless
the \- is used at a place where it doesn't belong.
OK jmc@
| -rw-r--r-- | mandoc_char.7 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mandoc_char.7 b/mandoc_char.7 index 3320b9aa..255caaef 100644 --- a/mandoc_char.7 +++ b/mandoc_char.7 @@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ supporting it, for example in .Fl T Cm utf8 and .Fl T Cm html . -But currently, no practically relevant manual page formatter actually -requires that subtlety, so in manual pages just write plain +But currently, no practically relevant manual page formatter requires +that subtlety, so in manual pages, it is sufficient to write plain .Sq - to represent hyphen, minus, and hyphen-minus. .Pp |