Wow, 3 very good replies in less than 10 minutes; thanks everyone!
\w'/rnd/phyl/Mail/EP
Ok ... so I guess /rnd/phyl/Mail/EP was the MH home directory of someone
at RAND 30+ years ago? And it's been just sitting around in the man
pages ever since? :-) I think that's what was confusing to me the most
out of everything in there.
Also ... why, exactly, do we use \- instead of -?
Because \- is a true minus sign in the current font whereas - is a
hyphen.
$ printf '1-2\n.br\n1\-2\n' | nroff | grep . 1‐2 1−2 $
Ah, I see ... you get "-" producing U+2010 where \- makes U+2212. I see
that's what happens on my MacOS X system as well. Thanks!
--Ken
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