reassign 496063 halibut 1.0-1 thanks On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:42:31PM +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man pterm|cat -vet|less > [...] > OPTIONS$ > The command-line options supported by pterm are:$ > $ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@M-^Pe command [ arguments ]$ > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Also it uses curly quotes instead of the ascii apostrophe sign in the > pterm -e example. > > I think this is because pterm.1.gz lacks backslashes before the dashes.
I think this is a halibut bug; it turns \- (non-breaking hyphen) into \(hy. I suspect that in practice \- would be more appropriate for manual page output. \(hy also defeats Debian groff's normal mechanisms for avoiding Unicode hyphens in terminal output ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
