On Fri 25 May 2018 16:59:50 Pali Rohár wrote: > Happens for: man -Tps and man -Tdvi > > And I think that the best readable output is by grodvi driver. So would > really like to have working copy+paste from the dvi output (converted to > PDF viewer).
man -Tpdf will produce what you want. The '\-' (minus) is used as the output glyph, but any copy/paste (or searching within document) will use '-' (hyphen). This is similar to the treatment of ligatures. If you look at the groff pdf output of the "find" man page you will see that "fi" has been replaced with a ligature in the output, but if you cut and paste the two characters “fi" are returned, and you can search for "find". You can see this here:- <http://chuzzlewit.co.uk/WebManPDF.pl/man:/1/find>
