From 06760af86de65d166c2f863a13bccced7f7dfb8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Schwarze Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:17:26 +0000 Subject: 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@ --- mandoc_char.7 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mandoc_char.7') 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 -- cgit