From 4d9706d81ef5415556289c97f3fbaa899816070c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:41:49 +0200
Subject: Implement support for n-dash, \-

---
 cli/context.cxx | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

(limited to 'cli')

diff --git a/cli/context.cxx b/cli/context.cxx
index b3aebc8..5731222 100644
--- a/cli/context.cxx
+++ b/cli/context.cxx
@@ -347,6 +347,32 @@ format_line (output_type ot, string& r, const char* s, size_t n)
 
       switch (c)
       {
+      case '-':
+        {
+          // N-dash. If someone wants m-dash, can use \-- with \-{}- as
+          // a way to "escape" an n-dash followed by hyphen.
+          //
+          switch (ot)
+          {
+          case ot_plain:
+            {
+              r += "--";
+              break;
+            }
+          case ot_html:
+            {
+              r += "&#8211;";
+              break;
+            }
+          case ot_man:
+            {
+              r += "\\(en";
+              break;
+            }
+          }
+
+          break;
+        }
       case 'n':
         {
           switch (ot)
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