Hyphens, minus, and dashes in Debian man pages

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  • void-packages

    The Void source packages collection

  • Classic "everyone is using the software wrong, but it's the fault of everyone, and not the software".

    Some distros like Void seem to patch this out.[1]

    From mandoc/mdocml's mandoc_char(7) [2]

    In roff(7) documents, the minus sign is normally written as ‘\-’. In manual pages, some style guides recommend to also use ‘\-’ if an ASCII 0x2d “hyphen-minus” output glyph that can be copied and pasted is desired in output modes supporting it, for example in -T utf8 and -T html. But currently, no practically relevant manual page formatter requires that subtlety, so in manual pages, it is sufficient to write plain ‘-’ to represent hyphen, minus, and hyphen-minus.

    Which is the common-sense thing to do.

    Meanwhile, GNU projects become increasingly less relevant due to obnoxiousness like this.

    In general the amount of wankery of "the correct hyphen" is staggering.

    [1]: https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc_char

    [2]: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/20c66829134...

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  • wincompose

    🔣 Compose Key for Windows

  • On Windows, I use http://wincompose.info/ for all my special-character needs (and use the system compose key on Linux).

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