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Re: [Bug documentation/3507] New: use of "-" for minus sign in manpages

From: Li Guanglei <guanglei at cn dot ibm dot com>
To: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:16:21 +0800
Subject: Re: [Bug documentation/3507] New: use of "-" for minus sign in manpages
Organization: IBM CSTL
References: <20061111173815.3507.eugen@debian.org>

eugen at debian dot org wrote:

There are alot of places in manpages where symbol '-' is used for minus sign.
Those symbols are converted to hyphen by groff in UTF-8 locales. '\-' should be
used for minus sign (see groff_char(7) for details).

Thanks. I should keep '-' in mind whenever I document the man page.

References:
- [Bug documentation/3507] New: use of "-" for minus sign in manpages
  - From: eugen at debian dot org

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