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Re: [groff] hyphen, minus sign and hyphen-minus


From: Pali Rohár
Subject: Re: [groff] hyphen, minus sign and hyphen-minus
Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 13:16:42 +0200
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

On Friday 25 May 2018 17:36:50 Deri James wrote:
> On Fri 25 May 2018 16:59:50 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > Happens for: man -Tps and man -Tdvi
> > 
> > And I think that the best readable output is by grodvi driver. So would
> > really like to have working copy+paste from the dvi output (converted to
> > PDF viewer).
> 
> man -Tpdf will produce what you want. The '\-' (minus) is used as the output 
> glyph, but any copy/paste (or searching within document) will use '-' 
> (hyphen).

Yes, I already figured out that for man -Tpdf it is working. But man
-Tps and man -Tdvi does not work. And as I said "man -T dvi | dvipdfmx"
gives me better PDF output as man -Tpdf. So for reading I would really
prefer man -Tdvi.

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Pali Rohár
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