From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD64AC433DF for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 22:11:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C53F207C3 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 22:11:18 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="nBpnJJ6i" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2387913AbgJSWLR (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:11:17 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:57614 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2387912AbgJSWLR (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:11:17 -0400 Received: from mail-wm1-x341.google.com (mail-wm1-x341.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::341]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C4D9FC0613CE for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wm1-x341.google.com with SMTP id d81so963170wmc.1 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:11:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nzEDvVmL+XkwIsXACI0jd36BDLCD7YxI1bvIhtrebLA=; b=nBpnJJ6ihoKASvrKYAHPm7nAlWTWBdFuPmHyl1B6/JwZpXhSaimov9LXwT7qN3igeO tNkYXDi650xkZpKw9uvu6hFaKPy8s5gJOa7L/koM4gLMA0XYBjkzWxz+Jp28XihZ9h99 4NX+Wn4Uprz1zrMR5FNRcDDSyq/8hlVukdXSdWpyM3uTWuFvM80Z30eVEKOxkNeuCQvA xry7c8qrZC9T0FFOfXhG9VwdDyBxcAgDPUwPor19X4cz2nOE7/F7HHh2BA4GtdeacLU8 QslHUW29tu6xnl5UbTy4jWkKWDwMa2AgFUwF9bfmoGfRLjJ5yEtbXoUefvhJBVXnFllv 9juA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=nzEDvVmL+XkwIsXACI0jd36BDLCD7YxI1bvIhtrebLA=; b=rVcYMnN+XCk+u9pBzfk9yQ9F249VCqIYE2IwnElPtO+oxu+sU/IDsVr6NwIW5nknj0 T95vTd1zlAVE79GTsWbQITCm2/X/cAOdfX5HZ1LS2eiWZztJucVh7RU3nUOO9Zh3flD8 +tBslQEFacxZ4vA0LhsaEkSuJga94IUSt87iTWJCC4yCtozb5ekHJBrAdf7VHYgfdqQ9 l6zYkmdO4nzqNS3/pY8NhjNIrOpqm0OTNxnHG7BLMMHX4gV8LBCBzi90iB2CP2bJ6r99 apQAft0N+5ki7PET9ddlPmFwySTXQLy41g4znA62PktWzj+OSSH3QScyQ97oI5f+l6cC ECFw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532lr1KmbeUXagvc6dgE7LhrslJIC/RSA4NBGoT0Zj5Kgbg1KvRA 62/y/TwpnweUOEt9oeP3ZNq756bHlIg= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzzb1GLEKIqU7Y8VrgB8ypmEvqYZsDS2j44TI2YENE/2ZbhoUB2R0KohsGhRmFNqEHcY1k3jg== X-Received: by 2002:a05:600c:2144:: with SMTP id v4mr1323280wml.172.1603145474213; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.143] ([170.253.60.68]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id s2sm1182118wmf.45.2020.10.19.15.11.13 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:11:13 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: \- vs - (Was [Re: [PATCH 2/3] system_data_types.7: Add 'clock_t']) To: Jakub Wilk Cc: Michael Kerrisk , linux-man@vger.kernel.org References: <20201017213758.9270-1-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com> <20201017213758.9270-2-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com> <706d3eea-60f8-c208-0cd4-3412ebfef263@gmail.com> <20201019181047.palj3nbvozlvnoqg@jwilk.net> From: Alejandro Colomar Message-ID: <67b18fbb-d0a1-a9bb-d0c0-0ba16910389d@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:11:12 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201019181047.palj3nbvozlvnoqg@jwilk.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi Jakub, On 2020-10-19 20:10, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Alejandro Colomar , 2020-10-19, 19:40: >> Then, in the following code (taken from printf.3) >> the escape is wrong (unneeded) by those guidelines?: >> >> [[ >> .SH NAME >> printf, fprintf, dprintf, sprintf, snprintf, vprintf, vfprintf, vdprintf, >> vsprintf, vsnprintf \- formatted output conversion >> ]] > > From the typographical point of view, the most appropriate character > here would be \(en (en-dash); but for historical reasons, you're > supposed to use \- (minus sign). This is documented in the man(7) manual > page, section "Sections". > Thank you! Alex