> > Heirloom troff and groff both render \- as en dash,
> > not minus sign, in PDF output.
> If you use groff's native pdf driver (-Tpdf) I believe
> minus is rendered, can be searched for and copy/pasted.
> The postscript driver also outputs a "minus" so I suspect
> it is the ghostscript convers
Deri James wrote:
> If you use groff's native pdf driver (-Tpdf) I believe
> minus is rendered, can be searched for and
> copy/pasted. The postscript driver also outputs a
> "minus" so I suspect it is the ghostscript conversion
> to pdf which is changing it.
It is ok for me if copy/paste fro
On Fri 23 Jan 2015 08:39:20 Anthony J. Bentley
wrote:
> Heirloom troff and groff both render \- as en dash,
not minus sign,
> in PDF output.
If you use groff's native pdf driver (-Tpdf) I believe
minus is rendered, can be searched for and
copy/pasted. The postscript driver also outputs a
"min
"Anthony J. Bentley" wrote:
> I only
> ever mark up command flags in -mdoc, so I just type Fl for those. I
> wish Fl became ASCII '-', but we're talking about changing decades of
> historical practice here.
It is ASCII (as Ingo had pointed out), isn't it? I had tested it right now
with -mdoc a
Hello Ingo and Anthony,
> That shouldn't happen in manual pages. Both tmac/an-old.tmac
> and tmac/doc.tmac contain:
>
> .\" For UTF-8, map some characters conservatively for the sake
> .\" of easy cut and paste.
> .
> .if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\
> . rchar \- - ' `
> .
> . char \- \N'45'
> .
Hi Carsten,
Carsten Kunze writes:
> is there a way (except \N'45') to output an ASCII dash (0x2d) with
> nroff in an UTF-8 locale (i.e. without -T or with -Tutf8)?
>
> I want to copy command lines from nroff output into a xterm, but the
> shell complains about the '-' which is not 0x2d.
>
> E.g.
Hi Carsten,
Carsten Kunze wrote on Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 03:59:41PM +0100:
> is there a way (except \N'45') to output an ASCII dash (0x2d)
> with nroff in an UTF-8 locale (i.e. without -T or with -Tutf8)?
>From font/devascii/R, you see that in -Tascii mode, all of the
following glyph names map to
Hello,
is there a way (except \N'45') to output an ASCII dash (0x2d) with nroff in an
UTF-8 locale (i.e. without -T or with -Tutf8)?
I want to copy command lines from nroff output into a xterm, but the shell
complains about the '-' which is not 0x2d.
E.g. mandoc(1) does output 0x2d for '\-' an
