The hyphen can be misunderstood to mean "emitted to -" i.e. stdout.
Refer to both forms by name, rather than using "the former" for one and
referring to the other by name.
gcc/ChangeLog:
* doc/invoke.texi (Diagnostic Message Formatting Options):
Replace hyphen with a new sentence. Replace "the former" with
the actual value.
The @samp{json} format is a synonym for @samp{json-stderr}.
The @samp{json-stderr} and @samp{json-file} formats are identical, apart from
-where the JSON is emitted to - with the former, the JSON is emitted to stderr,
-whereas with @samp{json-file} it is written to @file{@var{source}.gcc.json}.
+where the JSON is emitted to. With @samp{json-stderr}, the JSON is emitted
+to stderr, whereas with @samp{json-file} it is written to
+@file{@var{source}.gcc.json}.
The emitted JSON consists of a top-level JSON array containing JSON objects
representing the diagnostics.