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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2018-08-08 14:30:48 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2018-08-08 14:30:48 +0000
commit42f9740c7beff52d69888c99f41942e1d1fff0bc (patch)
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parenta9635feb0b48f28abd33fb1fb3ddb4338f8eaa38 (diff)
downloadmandoc-42f9740c7beff52d69888c99f41942e1d1fff0bc.tar.gz
Even though we strongly discourage escaping hyphens in manual pages
in general, when introducing the *typographic* term "hyphen", actually display a real hyphen in output modes supporting it.
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@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ escape sequences to represent national language characters in author
names; instead, provide ASCII transcriptions of the names.
.Ss Dashes and Hyphens
In typography there are different types of dashes of various width:
-the hyphen (-),
+the hyphen (\(hy),
the en-dash (\(en),
the em-dash (\(em),
and the mathematical minus sign (\(mi).