On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 21:10:52 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
Hi Branden,
I just noticed that the Linux man-pages use '-' in TH. That's
surprising to me, as Michael was careful to use '\-' correctly.
In the documentation, I couldn't find anything that says TH
should be different than anywhere else, and so I'd expect he
would have used it there.
$ grep -rn '^\.TH [^ ]*-' man* | wc -l
30q
$ grep -rn '^\.TH [^ ]*\\-' man* | wc -l
0
Was it just an oversight, or are there any obscure reasons to do
that?
Those are just normal *hyphens* *within* the page title command/function/...
name; perhaps you are thinking of '\-' used as a *dash*(/minus) after the page
title command/function/... name following .SH NAME in all 1111 files?
See groff_char(7):
"For best results in roff systems, use the “−” character in input outside an
escape sequence only to mean a hyphen, as in the phrase “long-term”. For a minus
sign in running text or a Unix command-line option dash, use \− (or \[−] in
groff if you find it helps the clarity of the source document)."...
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more to cut
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
