Re: [PATCH] man-pages: ffix: Use an en-dash for ranges, numeric and alphabetic

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 08/22/2017 01:32 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 10:06:40PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> [...]
>> I applied most of the changes here manually, since there were conflicts
>> with parallel changes I was making.
>>
>> Thanks for the patch. For future large patches, it would be good
>> to get some advance warning of the proposed changes, to prevent the
>> possibility of conflicts.
>>
> 
>   Yes.  I did not check the repository nor the mailing list, but do now.

Thanks.

>   I could have redone the patches after you where finished with your current
> changes.

I attempted to save you the trouble.

>   You have made some bad changes, used a minus (\-) (or an em-dash (typing
> error?) instead of the typographically correct en-dash, '\(en'.

Thanks for checking. I have fixed the em-dash cases now. The cases using \-
all occur in code (C or shell), and the convention there has long been to
use \-. In fact, I think \- and \(en might be exactly the same.

Cheers,

Michael


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