From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Sebastian Rahtz" <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
To: twaugh@redhat.com
Cc: pto@sslug.dk, ndw@nwalsh.com, docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: <screen>-- </screen>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 08:02:00 -0000
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Tim Waugh writes:
 > 
 > You'll also have to hack '>>', which suffers from a similar
 > affliction.
 > 
 > Surely the fix is to get better TeX output generated in the first
 > place?

indeed. you need to generate -{}-, etc. I thought someone had done all
this ages ago.

the alternative is to hack the TeX font metrics, cursing Don Knuth as you go.

sebastian