Hi Steffen, > > > En dash would look nice, i could imagine. > > > > Those ASCII ‘-’ above should be rendered as a hyphen in nicely > > typeset output. An en-dash is far too big. Oh, there's another > > one! ... > But i was talking -Tutf8, and these are fixed width font
Given we use terminal emulators on pixel-based devices and our choice of font, I still see a significant difference with $ troff -Tutf8 <<<'Re-sort with \-u.' | grotty | grep . Re‐sort with −u. $ The hyphen is narrower so doesn't crash into the following rune. It also sits at a different height. Whereas the option's dash is heavier and more noticeable, as it should be given its significance. -- Cheers, Ralph.