Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.

2017-04-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-21T21:56:24-0400, Doug McIlroy wrote: > I think it's pretty hopeless to ask for AI that can tell > whether a pasted symbol is a hyphen or a minus sign. > The answer is likely to depend on whether it is being > pasted into a program or into a document. Here's my attempt at clarifying the

Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.

2017-04-21 Thread Doug McIlroy
I think it's pretty hopeless to ask for AI that can tell whether a pasted symbol is a hyphen or a minus sign. The answer is likely to depend on whether it is being pasted into a program or into a document. Doug

Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.

2017-04-21 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Ralph Corderoy wrote: |Clarke wrote: |> used the simple hyphen character because it was all monospace. |... |> If a minus sign appeared in regular text, I always used \(mi. | |It was a lot easier then when the was only ASCII `-' and nothing else. |:-) .. |I'm no clearer. Except I'm not s

Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.

2017-04-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Clarke wrote: > used the simple hyphen character because it was all monospace. ... > If a minus sign appeared in regular text, I always used \(mi. It was a lot easier then when the was only ASCII `-' and nothing else. :-) Here's how R and TR fonts map onto character 45 in groff. $ cd /u