On Friday 25 July 2003 12:21, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:43:15AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > On Friday 25 July 2003 11:10, Michael Piefel wrote: > > > What's a "dash"? Sorry, but you have to be more specific here. > > > There's the minus sign (usually introducing options) and the hyphen > > > (for hyphenation). If the latter cannot be shown, it might also be a > > > deficiency of the font you use. > > > > Hmmm. This is really funny. Look at > > http://fortytwo.ch/~avbidder/man-page.png. > > What versions of man-db and groff are installed, and what pager (and > version of same) are you using?
The latest, afaict (excluding experimental) ii man-db 2.4.1-10 The on-line manual pager ii groff-base 1.18.1-9 GNU troff text-formatting system (base syste ii less 381-2 A file pager program, similar to more(1) ii konsole 3.1.1-1 KDE X terminal emulator LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 I'd be willing to try some experimental pkgs if you can point me to a source (and as long it doesn't involve updating more essential things) Sometimes all '-' characters (don't know how if they're hyphens or minus or em-dashes) are affected, and sometimes only few of them (only hyphens or so). cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/smtp
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