G. Branden Robinson wrote in <20220913053400.7lmdp2qpxb6zweei@illithid>: |At 2022-09-12T23:41:34+0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> This is not a hyphenated word. |[rearranging this a bit] |> En dash would look nice, i could imagine. | |Then use en dashes in your input. | | on\[en]loop\[en]main\[en] tick
Please do not put my words out of context. I was responsding to a term of yours, because i do _not_ want to use \-BLA. If i would like that, i would look what to do, your suggestion looks good; mdoc has .Fl for flags. .. |>|2. This is not a "1.23"-specific issue as your subject line[] |>|suggests. |>| |>|$ groff --version | head -n 1 |>|GNU groff version 1.22.4 |> |> Ok.. this i did not know. Until last week i was solely using |> 1.22.3, even if the system has 1.22.4 (just not for me). | |I don't _think_ this was a change in groff 1.22.4, either, but it's not |easy for me to run groff 1.22.3 or earlier to experiment on them. Well i ran it, and i never saw anything but hyphen-minus in manuals. ... |> Really. The above is just wrong, Branden. Who said such? | |The consensus of this list was that it is better typography overall. Then maybe you should ask typographic experts what to do, on a list where such people can be asked? Anyhow, and that is plain, whereas in German Bindestrich and Ergänzungstrich may indeed look better in a typographical perfect book, instead of hyphen-minus, and of course en dash that i used in a different context, that is solely founded in the determining factor that kerning and stretching etc is used to bring the leading and the subsequent character(-cell) together. In -Tutf8 this can never be true? | A-| | B | looks just terrible on a console, so the effect is the absolute opposite to what was desired, which will not happen with hyphen-minus | A | - | B | But .. i see where this leads to.. ... |However, many man pages are written in ignorance of the correct special |characters to obtain the desired glyphs. You can conceal these errors What are you talking about Branden? ... |by adding the following to your site-local man(7) configuration. The ... Who do you think will do this? Do you support per-user configuration files at least? How many people do _know_ that they can configure groff _there_? ... No! ... |However, it turns out the above might not be squarely relevant to your |situation after all; if what you need are en dashes, then no version of Yes. ... |> You cannot use HYPHEN for the above. ... No. Well i see that makes no sense. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
