Hi Benno,

On Sun Feb 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM CET, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > Regarding the hyphenation problem, the lump in the carpet moves after
> > groff 1.22.4.  Because HTML output now produces − entities rather
> > than hyphens from *roff minus special characters (`\-`), [...]
>
> Ouch!  I don't like the look of them on the HTML page: they are
> "enormous", looking like ndashes.  And what's worse: when one
> copy-pastes such an option (−−breaklonglines, for example) to
> a terminal, nano thinks it is a file name.  Aarrr!  :(

Sounds like you want to get a regular hyphen in the output, not a minus
or dash. That has a very simple solution: use an actual hyphen (-)
instead of the special character \-, which means minus.

~ onf

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