Jeremy C. Reed | 5 Apr 2010 16:24

Re: cc.1 manpage correction

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> >A correction to the cc.1 manpage from joerg <at> netbsd. Use \(-> for arrows
> 
> Commentary from the AT&T / 4.4BSD-Alpha nroff gallery:
> according to ntab.c, this character does exist even in
> ancient versions, thus feel free to use it.

Committed.

> Now, with my Debian Developer hat on: remember to
> escape any hyphen-minus dashes intended to be used
> with copy/paste or so, basically all that aren't a
> hyphen. For example:
> .Sy -lpthread -> .Sy \-lpthread

Fixed. (And some others too.)

> But leave things like "front-end" intact.

> Furthermore, with my MirBSD hat on again, the line
> Set to the minor-minor version -- the number after the minor version.
> is also wrong. You probably want \(em (an em dash).

Fixed.

Thanks


Gmane