Coming back to this: Colin wrote: > Unfortunately, groff doesn't have anything that reliably comes out as > U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS everywhere. On Debian both "-" and "\-" are hacked > to come out as U+002D, but strictly speaking "-" has hyphen semantics > and "\-" has minus-sign semantics. Upstream disapproves of HYPHEN-MINUS > as being typographically unsound, which doesn't help manual pages very > much. Given a choice between the two, at least "\-" doesn't break lines, > so I think it's the better choice.
Done upstream (r8641). > You could behave differently in nroff and troff mode if you felt that > worked better. Didn't bother. > I suggest following pod2man's lead and putting this in a preamble: > > .ie !\n(.g .ds Aq \(aq > .el .ds aq ' > > Then you can use "\*(Aq". Done upstream (r8640). (in #518690:) > I should package a halibut snapshot or backport the relevant patches > (r8309, r8321, and r8322) from Subversion - or upstream could do a 1.1 > release. :-) Jacob, what do you think? I'd just package a snapshot. I don't know when a 1.1 might appear -- 1.0 was, I think, a fairly artificial milestone -- and I don't think especial care is being taken to ensure that Halibut source for new versions of PuTTY, sgt-puzzles, etc is even compatible with 1.0 (I believe upstream builds distribution tarballs with a snapshot). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
