> > At the same time, we could say that they should revert to `-' > > instead of `\-' which is easier to remember, and which gives > > better appearance in the manpage source files. > > No, you cannot, since using \- is not an advice that has been > introduced by you (even though you may have advised it). Proper > manual pages have used \- since Unix 7th edition at least. > Moreover, they have often used regular or bold font for command line > examples.
OK. > I would recommend to map \- to U+002D for all output devices that > use ASCII codes. Hmm. For man pages, I agree. The same probably for the `traditional' macro packages, this is, -me, -ms, and -mm, but I'm not sure. The main question is, however, whether we should do that in general. Tricky, tricky. Werner