From: G. Branden Robinson Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 10:11:28 +0000 (-0400) Subject: man-pages.7: Add a use case for real minus character X-Git-Tag: man-pages-4.14~184 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?p=thirdparty%2Fman-pages.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=e789e07cb127a01f03ecec947dc96b453449f270 man-pages.7: Add a use case for real minus character Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7 index 6747627230..0b4647a796 100644 --- a/man7/man-pages.7 +++ b/man7/man-pages.7 @@ -868,6 +868,8 @@ Finally, note that "re-create" and "recreate" are two different verbs, and the former is probably what you want. .SS Real minus character Where a real minus character is required (e.g., for numbers such as \-1, +for man page cross references such as +.BR utf\-8 (7), or when writing options that have a leading dash, such as in .IR "ls\ \-l"), use the following form in the man page source: