Re: Hyphens in man pages
Minor point, but since you posted it....
"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> writes:
> ...
> \- Minus sign or basic Latin hyphen‐minus. \- produces the
> Unix command‐line option dash in the output. “-” is a
> hyphen in the roff language; some output devices replace it
> with U+2010 (hyphen) or similar.
The official name of "the Unix command-line option dash" is the
hyphen-minus character (U+002D). Given how much confusion there is about
this, and particularly given how ambiguous the word "dash" is in
typography (the hyphen-minus is one of 25 dashes in Unicode), you may want
to say that explicitly in addition to saying that it's the character used
in UNIX command-line options (and, arguably as importantly, in UNIX
command names).
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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