<screen>-- </screen>

[Peter Toft]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> Norman Walsh writes:
>  > | However PS/PDF sees two consequtive minus-signs as a
>  > | long minus, i.e.
>  > |
>  > | d-x-x-x DIR1
>  > | dr-xr-xr-x DIR2
>  > |
>  > | It really looks stupid for directory-listings- can I
>  > | use a trick to get out of this situation - or trick
>  > | pdfjadetex to not combine two minus-signs?
>  >
>  > Are you using a recent pdfjadetex? I thought Sebastian fixed this
>  > one long ago?
>
> And I thought it was fixed in Jade itself... its essential insoluble
> in jadetex, as the -- translation to - is the font metrics.

Then the "-" -> "‐" is the way to proceed - only
translated within <screen>-tags. Have to make a
Perl-hack for this :-)

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Peter Toft, Ph.D. [pto@sslug.dk] http://www.sslug.dk/~pto

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