From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2006-10-16T22:55:46+09:00
Subject: Re: bug in rdoc?

On Oct 16, 2006, at 7:10 AM, Wybo Dekker wrote:

> -- The following example, is taken from the rdoc documentation.
> For the long options, it converts -- into  &#8212; (a long hyphen)
> instead of two separate hyphens with some whitespace in between.
> (see www.servalys.nl/ doc/index.html for the output)
>
> =begin rdoc
>
> <tt>--output</tt> <i>name [, name]</i>::
>     specify the name of one or more output files. If multiple
>     files are present, the first is used as the index.
>
> <tt>--quiet:</tt>:: do not output the names, sizes, byte counts,
>                     index areas, or bit ratios of units as
>                     they are processed.
>
> =end
>
> Is this a bug in rdoc?

No, it's a feature.

Back in the old days, when people typed on typewriters, which didn't  
have an em-dash (what you call a long hyphen) key, two hyphens were  
used to indicate an em-dash. Since the ASCII character set doesn't  
have em-dash, this convention is carried over to rdoc.

Why does this bother you?

Regards, Morton