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commit 1de7cff46dec169d9611f054ef0666bc2cfcef93
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Feb 24 17:53:22 2025 -0600
[man,mdoc]: Fix Savannah #66836 (`\-` in HTML).
* tmac/an.tmac ([initialization])
* tmac/doc.tmac ([initialization]): Remap the text minus sign character
`\-` to `\N'45'` (U+002D) on the "html" device. Annotate the limited
scope of this remapping more thoroughly.
Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66836>. Thanks to Benno
Schulenberg for the report.
ANNOUNCE: Acknowledge Benno.
---
ANNOUNCE | 1 +
ChangeLog | 10 ++++++++++
tmac/an.tmac | 12 ++++++++++--
tmac/doc.tmac | 12 ++++++++++--
4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 439138e89..4d5df5c39 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ of this release.
Alex Colomar
Alexander Kanavin
Alexis (surryhill)
+Benno Schulenberg
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Brian Inglis
Bruno Haible
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1b53c48ab..36670f112 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+2025-02-24 G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com>
+
+ * tmac/an.tmac ([initialization])
+ * tmac/doc.tmac ([initialization]): Remap the text minus sign
+ character `\-` to `\N'45'` (U+002D) on the "html" device.
+ Annotate the limited scope of this remapping more thoroughly.
+
+ Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66836>. Thanks to Benno
+ Schulenberg for the report.
+
2025-02-23 G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com>
[eqn,preconv,refer,tbl]: Trivially refactor.
diff --git a/tmac/an.tmac b/tmac/an.tmac
index 4992578a1..80f60aa21 100644
--- a/tmac/an.tmac
+++ b/tmac/an.tmac
@@ -1412,10 +1412,18 @@ contains unsupported escape sequence
.
.\" === Define/remap characters. ===
.
-.\" For UTF-8, map the minus sign to the hyphen-minus to facilitate
-.\" copy and paste of code examples, file names, and URLs embedding it.
+.\" On output devices that typically have separate hyphen and minus sign
+.\" glyphs _and_ a glyph for ASCII/ISO Latin's hybrid "hyphen-minus",
+.\" remap the (text) minus sign to the hyphen-minus to facilitate copy
+.\" and paste of code examples, file names, and URLs embedding it. We
+.\" do this for man pages but not for general typesetting. See
+.\" groff_char(7) for further background.
+.\"
+.\" PDF's "CMap" feature solves this problem so we don't have to.
.if '\*[.T]'utf8' \
. char \- \N'45'
+.if '\*[.T]'html' \
+. char \- \N'45'
.
.\" === Initialize. ===
.
diff --git a/tmac/doc.tmac b/tmac/doc.tmac
index 469a5ccf8..f30f21503 100644
--- a/tmac/doc.tmac
+++ b/tmac/doc.tmac
@@ -7216,10 +7216,18 @@ should this have been '.Em ...'?
.blm doc-empty-line
.
.
-.\" For UTF-8, map the minus sign to the hyphen-minus to facilitate
-.\" copy and paste of code examples, file names, and URLs embedding it.
+.\" On output devices that typically have separate hyphen and minus sign
+.\" glyphs _and_ a glyph for ASCII/ISO Latin's hybrid "hyphen-minus",
+.\" remap the (text) minus sign to the hyphen-minus to facilitate copy
+.\" and paste of code examples, file names, and URLs embedding it. We
+.\" do this for man pages but not for general typesetting. See
+.\" groff_char(7) for further background.
+.\"
+.\" PDF's "CMap" feature solves this problem so we don't have to.
.if '\*[.T]'utf8' \
. char \- \N'45'
+.if '\*[.T]'html' \
+. char \- \N'45'
.
.
.\" load local modifications
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