On Sat, Oct 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM G. Branden Robinson
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Grisha,
>
> At 2025-10-04T18:49:38-0400, Grisha Levit wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 4, 2025, 09:59 G. Branden Robinson
> > <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > -bug reports to \[email protected]\fP or post them to the Usenet
> > > +bug reports to \fIbug\[email protected]\fP or post them to the
> > > +.SM USENET
> >
> > Is there some trick that Bash needs to adopt to get groff to use
> > HYPHEN-MINUS for \- when setting HTML or PDF?
>
> Yes. This was a bug in groff; it's been fixed in our Git repository's
> master branch, and the fix is expected to ship in groff 1.24.0.
>
> https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=1de7cff46dec169d9611f054ef0666bc2cfcef93
Thank you, I built groff from git and \- looks fine in HTML output now.
I see the note in the commit above:
\" PDF's "CMap" feature solves this problem so we don't have to.
but I found the PDF output kind of strange: \- certainly _looks_ like
it is still being rendered as MINUS SIGN. When the text is copied from
some viewers it becomes a HYPHEN-MINUS but when copied from others it
remains a MINUS SIGN. Is that to be expected?
