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 -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/