Follow-up Comment #23, bug #63354 (project groff): [U+2012 thoughts continued]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Figure_dash suggests an en dash as a figure dash replacement. To be conservative (in case the user's font has an en dash wider than its figures), we might also define a glyph that is a hyphen centered within a figure space. This produces decent results with the sample snippet from comment #22: .fchar \[u2012] \o'\0-' In Times, even using \[en] in place of the - here feels too crowded, though less so than the raised \[ru]. The hyphen falls more on the too-short side, but I contend this is the better side to fall on; this is, after all, only a fallback glyph, for fonts lacking a U+2012 designed to interact pleasingly with its figures. (The order of the glyphs in the \o escape shouldn't matter, since this definition isn't used for terminal devices, but it is crafted to degrade well in non-overstriking situations.) _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63354> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
