Hi Russ,
At 2023-10-15T12:06:14-0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Minor point, but since you posted it....
No worries!
> "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).
How about this?
\- Minus sign. \- produces the basic Latin hyphen‐minus
specifying Unix command‐line options and frequently used in
file names. “-” is a hyphen in roff; some output devices
replace it with U+2010 (hyphen) or similar.
Regards,
Branden
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