From 0a4281ca5b029a961fbef0856e27dee2a23c8cdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Nevins Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 13:37:27 +0000 Subject: Revise r8309 to use \- rather than - when trying to emit a literal U+002D; apparently this is preferred (it's what pod2man uses); cf Debian #496063, #159872. [originally from svn r8641] [r8309 == 73e8c7d1b4ac77ec1b5acc700cb3af277a150bcf] --- bk_man.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/bk_man.c b/bk_man.c index 92d7c3a..dce77d4 100644 --- a/bk_man.c +++ b/bk_man.c @@ -490,10 +490,23 @@ static int man_convert(wchar_t const *s, int maxlen, /* Turn backslashes into \e. */ rdaddsc(&out, "\\e"); continue; - } else if (*q == '-' && !(quote_props & QUOTE_LITERAL)) { - /* Turn nonbreakable hyphens into \(hy. */ - rdaddsc(&out, "\\(hy"); - continue; + } else if (*q == '-') { + if (quote_props & QUOTE_LITERAL) { + /* + * Try to preserve literal U+002D. + * This is quite awkward. Debian hacks groff so that + * \- and - both produce it; elsewhere it's not necessarily + * possible to get it. + * Apparently \- is the preferred compromise despite + * having minus-sign semantics, as it is non-breaking. + * (pod2man uses it, anyway.) + */ + rdaddc(&out, '\\'); + } else { + /* Turn nonbreakable hyphens into \(hy. */ + rdaddsc(&out, "\\(hy"); + continue; + } } else if (*q == '\'' && (quote_props & QUOTE_LITERAL)) { /* Try to preserve literal U+0027 (using string defined * in preamble) */ -- cgit v1.1