Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:52:22PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
|
| > >>>>> "Sven" == Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >
| > Sven> Hi *, here is another patch I've found in the Debian LyX package
| > Sven> you maybe would like to apply to the LyX source tree. In
| > Sven> manpages all "-" should be escaped with "\-" to force a proper
| > Sven> handling.
| >
| > Sven> The attached patch has been created against the current 1.4.x
| > Sven> branch.
| >
| > Hello,
| >
| > Where can I read about this "-" vs. "\-" thing?
|
| man 7 groff
|
| ESCAPE SEQUENCES
| ...
| Single Character Escapes
| ...
| \- The - sign in the current font.
>From this and man 7 groff_char I am not so sure that \- is what we
want... (since that logically is minus and what we really want is
dash.
Perhaps what we reall want is \[em] or \[en] or perhaps it acutally is
'-' (the hyphen).
Or are you saying that the proper character for the use should not be
used, but hat minus signs should be used instead?
--
Lgb
