On Fri 23 Jan 2015 08:39:20 Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > Heirloom troff and groff both render \- as en dash, not minus sign, > in PDF output.
If you use groff's native pdf driver (-Tpdf) I believe minus is rendered, can be searched for and copy/pasted. The postscript driver also outputs a "minus" so I suspect it is the ghostscript conversion to pdf which is changing it.