On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Carsten Kunze <carsten.ku...@arcor.de> wrote:
> Blake McBride <bl...@mcbride.name> wrote: > > > Also, how does groff get around the problem? > > groff may use a true line where ditroff may use the "_" and "|" characters. > > > Given that most documents are probably viewed via screen these days, and > > the ugliness of the dashes, I'd think this is important to fix. > > Have you tested that with PDF? If I magnify it I see a continous line. > It looks broken into dashes on the PDF for me. > > That all is a "feature" of ditroff. ditroff has been designed with > typesetters in mind, viewing on the screen was nearly impossible in early > troff days. > > It may not be a big problem to use maybe \D commands. But is it really > required to change this? > Documents with tables look kind of ugly and out-of-date on the screen. Thanks. Blake > > Carsten > >
