Follow-up Comment #51, bug #63354 (group groff): At 2025-07-08T17:21:49-0400, Dave wrote: > Follow-up Comment #50, bug #63354 (group groff): > > [comment #49 comment #49:] >> +.fchar \[u2012] \o'-\0'\" figure dash >> >> ...we probably want to conditionalize this overstrike on >> \n[fallbacks*troff-mode] as well, right? > > That wouldn’t be unreasonable, but it does turn out to be unnecessary: > in terminal output, the above decays to a hyphen. (Comment #38, > buried in this ticket’s comment avalanche, discusses this.)
Ah, good point. I also was uneasy about the ordering of the arguments,
but since grotty(1) is smart enough to not overprint a space (or,
precisely, horizontal motion) _destructively_, this works fine.
$ printf 'Can you see\\o@-\0@the dash?\n.pl \\n(nlu' | nroff -Tascii
Can you see-the dash?
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