Mike FABIAN writes:

>     .  char  - \N'45'

> because I found quite a few man pages which used just "-o" to write
> command line options of programs not "\-o", for example the man page
> of "less" does this. Without that hack, groff translates "-" into
> yet another variant of "-": U+2010 (HYPHEN).

It's better to fix the man pages instead. The groff input language has
the distinction between - and \- for ages. In some cases (not in
command line options!) HYPHENs look better than MINUS signs, therefore
I want to be able to write man pages where - gives a HYPHEN.

Bruno

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