Doug McIlroy <d...@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote: |Originally \(pl and \(mi came from a fixed font (S) while + and \- |came from the current font. As I understand your comment, groff |has reversed this troff convention. Additionally groff interprets - as |a compromise HYPHEN-MINUS. | |man groff_char, however, tells the original state of affairs. What is |one to believe?
I now think it is better to revert all those per-macro adjustments altogether and be pure; if people use \- to get "nicer" (smoother and finer that is) output then pasting from manual is simply impossible. Distributions like Debian can then still easily apply remappings at well-known places and document it in their guidelines. And/or the remappings could be covered by a conditional and a global per-site configuration file can set the corresponding switch, which macro packages then honour. I think this will be my distant target. --steffen |Soylent Green is people!
