On Saturday, 26 November 2022 03:52:53 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Some distributors do violence to the man.local file. But I am not a PDF > expert; for this I'll have to turn as I often do to Deri James, who also > wrote the gropdf output driver. Deri, what's a good way to root-cause > the issue Paul describes? Whenever there is a query about the "look" of a pdf it is important to rule out any vagaries in the particular fonts used by the pdf viewer used, so please repeat your tests adding "-P-e" to the command. As regards the cut and paste of MINUS SIGN as a hyphen, this can be turned off by including -P-u as well. Note this will also affect the treatment of ligatures (ff/fi/ffi) in that cut and paste will not return them to their individual characters. It also affects string searching within the pdf, the troff input "\-b" would not be found by entering -b in the pdf viewer's search widget. Tested on Branden's minus-and-hyphen.man, with -P-u it finds -baz, without it finds both -bar and -baz. Cheers Deri
