>> I think it's pretty hopeless to ask for AI that can tell >> whether a pasted symbol is a hyphen or a minus sign. >> The answer is likely to depend on whether it is being >> pasted into a program or into a document. > > Right. I'm happy for the typist to put in the effort. Perhaps I'm > getting too hung up on making the output be pasteable, but it's > annoying, and not obvious to some, why `foo?bar' doesn't run when pasted > from foo-bar(1).
Interesting difference in habits. I never look at groff-ed man pages on line--only the default nroff, which is fine for pasting, and more importantly, examinable with a full-featured editor. And I don't see how a typist can foresee what I am going to paste text into any better than AI can. After all, I write man pages and other documents *about* programs in volume comparable to programs themselves. Doug
