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John MacFarlane
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The groff_man (7)` man page indicates that `-` characters will be
treated as typographic hyphens and are not appropriate for cases
where the output should be copy-pasteable as an ASCII
hyphen-minus character. (E.g. in command line options.)
However, until a recent update groff man did not actually do this;
it treated `-` and `\-` the same. With the new update (1.23.0)
the two are distinguished (see https://lwn.net/Articles/947941/
for background), so now it is important that pandoc escape `-`.
This reverts ee60ba5252.
That change was motivated by a problem with backslash-escaping
`-` in a filename for .PSPIC. That's simply a separate issue;
we shouldn't do the normal escapes in such a context. It has
been addressed in the previous commit.
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% pandoc -t man
`-o`, `--output=`*OUTFILE*
: Write output to *OUTFILE* instead of `stdout`(3)
^D
.TP
\f[CR]\-o\f[R], \f[CR]\-\-output=\f[R]\f[I]OUTFILE\f[R]
Write output to \f[I]OUTFILE\f[R] instead of \f[CR]stdout\f[R](3)