In manpages, \- is used primarily for literal "-" in literal text, that is,
it should usually be used for bold (literal) text. (It's also used for
minus signs in mathematics.) It should not generally be used for hyphens
in English text, as it was used here in italic (metasyntactic variable)
text.
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> In manpages, \- is used primarily for literal "-" in literal text, that is,
> it should usually be used for bold (literal) text. (It's also used for
> minus signs in mathematics.) It should not generally be used for hyphens
> in English text, a
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 02:18:23PM -0500, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> > In manpages, \- is used primarily for literal "-" in literal text, that is,
> > it should usually be used for bold (literal) text. (It's also used for
> > minus signs in mathe
