{"id":1195047,"date":"2023-10-23T09:07:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195047"},"modified":"2023-10-23T09:07:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:07:27","slug":"hyphens-minus-and-dashes-in-debian-man-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195047","title":{"rendered":"[$] Hyphens, minus, and dashes in Debian man pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is probably fair to say that most Linux users spend little time thinking<br \/>\nabout the troff typesetting program, despite that application&#8217;s<br \/>\ngroundbreaking role in computing history.  Troff (along with nroff) is<br \/>\nstill with us, though, even if they are called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/groff\/\">groff<\/a> these days, and every<br \/>\nnow and then they make their presence known.  A recent groff change created<br \/>\na bit of a tempest within the Debian community, and has effectively been<br \/>\nreverted there.  It all comes down to the question of what, exactly, is the<br \/>\ncharacter used to mark command-line options on Unix systems?&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LWN.net &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/947941\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[$] Hyphens, minus, and dashes in Debian man pages<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is probably fair to say that most Linux users spend little time thinking about the troff typesetting program, despite that application&#8217;s groundbreaking role in computing history. Troff (along with nroff) is still with us, though, even if they are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195047\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1195047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1195047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}