Hello Bjarni!
> Character \[u2012] (Postscript 'figuredash') is not in any font
> file. It is used between digits (and uppercase letters) as the
> en-dash is constucted for lowercase letters
Right now I'm in the process of applying your formatting changes.
Walking over the many reports, I stumbled across the figure dash
issue.
While your suggestion to add a `figuredash' macro is probably a good
idea (I won't commit it yet, however, since it needs discussion), your
reasoning how and why to use it is wrong: A figure dash, having the
width of a digit, gets used for dashes that are *part* of a number,
like the American writing of phone numbers. It is *not* used for
enumerations, for which always the en-Dash should be used.
Consequently, I won't apply related patches.
Werner
PS: I guess that applying your formatting changes are my very last
larger commits to groff. Hopefully, as soon as a successor for me
has been found, the remaining issues can be resolved.
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