Re: hyphens in man pages

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:09:56 +0200,
I wrote:
> 
> At Sat, 2 Oct 2004 13:45:05 +0200,
> Nicolas François wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Here is a patch that convert hyphens to minus signs in the man pages (for
> > options, emails, or command line examples).
> > 
> > Hyphens are not suitable for searches or cut&paste on UTF-8 terminals.
> > Minus signs need to be escaped (\-) in order to be displayed as a minus
> > sign, and not as an hyphen.
> > 
> > This patch also close one font modifier in iecset.1.
> > s/\fIfalse\fI,/\fIfalse\fP,/
> 
> Thanks for the patch.
> Could you make a patch with the unified diff?

Also, please provide the summary and the signed-off-by lines
for changelog.


thanks,

Takashi


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