Re: [groff] hyphen, minus sign and hyphen-minus

2018-05-26 Thread Deri James
On Sat 26 May 2018 11:50:31 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Deri, > > > man -Tpdf will produce what you want. The '\-' (minus) is used as the > > output glyph, but any copy/paste (or searching within document) will > > use '-' (hyphen). > > > > This is similar to the treatment of ligatures. If you loo

Re: [groff] hyphen, minus sign and hyphen-minus

2018-05-26 Thread Pali Rohár
On Friday 25 May 2018 17:36:50 Deri James wrote: > On Fri 25 May 2018 16:59:50 Pali Rohár wrote: > > Happens for: man -Tps and man -Tdvi > > > > And I think that the best readable output is by grodvi driver. So would > > really like to have working copy+paste from the dvi output (converted to > >

Re: [groff] hyphen, minus sign and hyphen-minus

2018-05-26 Thread Pali Rohár
On Saturday 26 May 2018 11:50:31 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Deri, > > > man -Tpdf will produce what you want. The '\-' (minus) is used as the > > output glyph, but any copy/paste (or searching within document) will > > use '-' (hyphen). > > > > This is similar to the treatment of ligatures. If you

Re: [groff] hyphen, minus sign and hyphen-minus

2018-05-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Deri, > man -Tpdf will produce what you want. The '\-' (minus) is used as the > output glyph, but any copy/paste (or searching within document) will > use '-' (hyphen). > > This is similar to the treatment of ligatures. If you look at the > groff pdf output of the "find" man page you will see t