From e789e07cb127a01f03ecec947dc96b453449f270 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "G. Branden Robinson" Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 06:11:28 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] man-pages.7: Add a use case for real minus character Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/man-pages.7 | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7 index 674762723..0b4647a79 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: