[BRLTTY] Patch: man page fix
Jaroslav Skarvada
jskarvad at redhat.com
Tue Jul 16 10:22:50 EDT 2013
----- Original Message -----
> [quoted lines by Jaroslav Skarvada on 2013/07/15 at 12:43 -0400]
>
> >the attached patch changes the brltty man page the following way:
> >
> >- quotes dashes in the parameters,
> >- fixes typo (interrface)
> >- adds description for the following missed parameters:
> > --drivers-directory
> > --full-help
> > --key-table
> > --keyboard-properties
> > --tables-directory
> > --writable-directory
>
> Thanks. For my curiosity: What does quoting the - signs do?
>
IIRC it is used to distinct the dash from a hyphenation dash, i.e.
it shouldn't word wrap if quoted. Also IMHO (not 100 % sure about it)
the quoted and unquoted hyphens could be typed as a different
characters by various TTF backends (long and short hyphen)
regards
Jaroslav
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