Bruno Haible: > Anton Shepelev: > > > 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 formu- > las 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.
I now understand why it was done. But in my case, I am using Tutf8 (not Tps) and want it to be fully backwards compatible with Tascii, except for non- Latin letters. So I do want to use the ASCII HYPHEN-MINUS symbol, which is shorter than MINUS and longer than HYPHEN, for all three. > > 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. They will all be HYPHEN-MINUSes, just like in our e-mails. Anton
