From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: hyphens in man pages Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:09:56 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <20041002114505.GA22558@nekral.homelinux.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20041002114505.GA22558@nekral.homelinux.net> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Nicolas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Sat, 2 Oct 2004 13:45:05 +0200, Nicolas Fran=E7ois wrote: >=20 > Hello, >=20 > Here is a patch that convert hyphens to minus signs in the man pages (f= or > options, emails, or command line examples). >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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? BTW, is '\-' in the email address a common solution? I feel it's originally the correct usage for hypen... Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl