Re: manpage hyphens in zfsutils
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Hello Robert,
disclaimer: I am not /entirely/ sure, I know what I'm saying below.
On 22.10.2011 23:10, Robert Millan wrote:
> Thanks. It seems there are some unnecessary hunks left, e.g.:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> +\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-
Why do think so? Removing them seems to turn the - into a hyphen again
(but see below).
> Also, are you sure none of the changes is redundant? I'm not familiar
> with groff, but if it supports verbatim blocks, then dashes might be
> preserved there without escaping?
>
I am not (very) familiar either, however the ".nf" "verbatim" blocks
only preserve white spaces. It does not affect the character
interpretation. Have a look on my example:
.sp
This should be a dash, but actually is a hyphen: -
.sp
This is a hyphen: \(hy
.sp
This is a dash: \-
.sp
.nf
This should be a dash: -, and this too: \-
On the other hand, that's a hyphen: \(hy
.fi
Note: Debian was patched to force - to be a minus, not a hyphen as is
groffs default. Maybe many other groffs have been patched as well, at
least a test run on Fedora seems to avoid the problem as well.
FTR: Such discussions are just yet another reason why we should be using
something more modern instead.
- --
with kind regards,
Arno Töll
IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC
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