Re: man-pages.7: add use case for real minus character

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Good idea. Thanks, Branden. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael




On 10/22/2017 12:11 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7
index 674762723..0b4647a79 100644
--- a/man7/man-pages.7
+++ b/man7/man-pages.7
@@ -868,6 +868,8 @@ Finally, note that "re-create" and "recreate" are two different verbs,
  and the former is probably what you want.
  .SS Real minus character
  Where a real minus character is required (e.g., for numbers such as \-1,
+for man page cross references such as
+.BR utf\-8 (7),
  or when writing options that have a leading dash, such as in
  .IR "ls\ \-l"),
  use the following form in the man page source:

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