On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:18:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I'm a little suspicious of the \*(W fiddling as well, but I'm not sure I
> understand exactly why that's being done.  The comment says that it's
> turning \*(-- into an unbreakable dash, but I don't understand why that's
> being done by outputting a Greek capital omega followed by a dash and then
> using .tr to change the omega back to a dash.  If anyone understands what
> the motivation might be here, please explain it to me?

To clarify, I only meant to remove the special treatment of the vertical
bar.  I had no idea that line was also doing something else, so any
other effect it had was unintentional.

Andrew


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