Even though we strongly discourage escaping hyphens in manual pages

in general, when introducing the *typographic* term "hyphen",
actually display a real hyphen in output modes supporting it.

diff --git a/share/man/man7/mandoc_char.7 b/share/man/man7/mandoc_char.7
index 69a3514..e464d22 100644 (file)
--- a/share/man/man7/mandoc_char.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/mandoc_char.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $OpenBSD: mandoc_char.7,v 1.36 2018/08/08 14:15:21 schwarze Exp $
+.\"    $OpenBSD: mandoc_char.7,v 1.37 2018/08/08 14:29:42 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ escape sequences to represent national language characters in author
 names; instead, provide ASCII transcriptions of the names.
 .Ss Dashes and Hyphens
 In typography there are different types of dashes of various width:
-the hyphen (-),
+the hyphen (\(hy),
 the en-dash (\(en),
 the em-dash (\(em),
 and the mathematical minus sign (\(mi).