Hi Paul,I don't undertstand the commit shown below. It breaks the '-' symbol, which now is a hyphen. See the table mentioned yesterday:
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Keycap Appearance and meaning Special character and meaning │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│" " neutral double quote \[dq] neutral double quote │
│' ’ closing single quote \[aq] neutral apostrophe │
│- ‐ hyphen \- or \[-] minus sign/Unix dash │
│\ (escape character) \e or \[rs] reverse solidus │
│^ ˆ modifier circumflex \(ha circumflex/caret/“hat” │
│` ‘ opening single quote \(ga grave accent │
│~ ˜ modifier tilde \(ti tilde │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
So, at least, it should be (but I believe the initial code was correct):
.q "zic \*\-r @$(date +%s)"
However, I wonder what that \* is intending to do there (I can see no difference
in my screen with or without it).
Cheers,
Alex
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commit 918e10e8963b3c0d38d3b5fb8ec9cf08ecd03757
Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jul 12 06:26:53 2022 -0700
* zic.8: fix minus typo
diff --git a/zic.8 b/zic.8
index 0cd0781e..e8816e5b 100644
--- a/zic.8
+++ b/zic.8
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ .SH OPTIONS
31-bit signed integers.
On platforms with GNU
.BR date ,
-.q "zic \-r @$(date +%s)"
+.q "zic \*-r @$(date +%s)"
omits data intended for past timestamps.
Although this option typically reduces the output file's size,
the size can increase due to the need to represent the timestamp range
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