From: Li Guanglei <guanglei@cn.ibm.com>
To: sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org
Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Bug documentation/3507] New: use of "-" for minus sign in manpages
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455675E5.9020402@cn.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-12 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-11 17:40 eugen at debian dot org
2006-11-11 17:45 ` [Bug documentation/3507] " eugen at debian dot org
2006-11-12 1:13 ` Li Guanglei [this message]
2006-11-13 8:36 ` guanglei at cn dot ibm dot com
2006-11-13 17:12 ` guanglei at cn dot ibm dot com
2007-08-17 22:02 ` fche at redhat dot com
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