From b47a48381f6e2b74024bf3e206d9fbf1da41c75d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Schwarze Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:17:26 +0000 Subject: While we do encourage simplicity in the sense of writing plain '-' for hyphen-minus, soften the language a bit: writing \- for it is not wrong, and people started sending us patches to replace \- with '-' in existing manual pages, which is not a worthwhile change unless the \- is used at a place where it doesn't belong. OK jmc@ --- mandoc_char.7 | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'mandoc_char.7') diff --git a/mandoc_char.7 b/mandoc_char.7 index 578f37f1..b46575d4 100644 --- a/mandoc_char.7 +++ b/mandoc_char.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.75 2018/12/15 19:30:26 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.76 2019/03/31 19:17:26 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Jason McIntyre .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: December 15 2018 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 31 2019 $ .Dt MANDOC_CHAR 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ supporting it, for example in .Fl T Cm utf8 and .Fl T Cm html . -But currently, no practically relevant manual page formatter actually -requires that subtlety, so in manual pages just write plain +But currently, no practically relevant manual page formatter requires +that subtlety, so in manual pages, it is sufficient to write plain .Sq - to represent hyphen, minus, and hyphen-minus. .Pp -- cgit v1.2.3