Anton Shepelev wrote: > Is it possible to tell groff to use > the standard hyphen-minus sign of the ASCII table > instead of \[u2012] for hyphenation?
People who ask this usually have a groff input that uses '-' both to designate a hyphen (between English words) and a minus sign (such as in formulas or in command-line options). But a hyphens looks nicer when it is thin; \[u2012] achieves this. What you really want to do is to change your groff input so that it uses * - for hyphens, * \- for minus signs. Example: \fBiconv \-f ISO\-8859\-1 \-t UTF\-8\fP converts input from the old West-European encoding ISO\-8859\-1 to Unicode. > it can be done using the .shc request. AFAIU, this will have the effect that hyphens at the end of a line will look like a minus sign, that is, ugly. Bruno
