On 9/1/21 23:50, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
i'm not entirely sure whether modern versions of groff would handle these dashes correctly. in any case, groff(7) (e.g. [1]) says that an ordinary "minus sign" is supposed to be written as "\-".
ah, here's a [reference](https://liw.fi/manpages/): > An unfortunate bit of arcane syntax is that dashes in options should > be prefixed by backslashes. Thus, write \-\-bits, not just --bits. The > Debian and Ubuntu implementation of man treats them the same, for > terminal output, but this is not portable. Technically a naked - means > a hyphen, whereas \- means a minus sign. Typographically these are > distinct, and they are also distinct in Unicode. The typesetter is > free to break a line at a hyphen, but not at a minus. For dashes in > options, you should thus use minuses, but in normal text, for normal > words, the hyphen.it might well be, that my is a bit too zealous and escapes dashes that don't actually need escaping. however, wherever you want a literal "-" that is parsed by software, you should use a "\-"
gmsr IOhannes
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