Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> wrote: |Clarke wrote: |> used the simple hyphen character because it was all monospace. |... |> If a minus sign appeared in regular text, I always used \(mi. | |It was a lot easier then when the was only ASCII `-' and nothing else. |:-) .. |I'm no clearer. Except I'm not sure what I want is possible. So what's |"best practice" when aiming at groff, non-groff, old systems, |proprietary systems?
I use U+002D hyphen-minus. The minus sign is a mathematical symbol, i would say. Hyphen-minus logically combines two words. But that came naturally, i didn't really think about it. Maybe the text-processor should be so smart to realize that the actual use cases combines words without an intermediate newline, and should correct the glyph "to look nicer" in that case? --steffen
