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Line 62 escape sequences to represent national language charac

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).

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.It Em Input Ta Em Description

.It Sq \e\ \& Ta unpaddable non-breaking space

.It \e\(ti Ta paddable non-breaking space

.It \e0 Ta unpaddable, breaking digit-width space

.It \e0 Ta digit-width space allowing line break

.It \e| Ta one-sixth \e(em narrow space, zero width in nroff mode

.It \e^ Ta one-twelfth \e(em half-narrow space, zero width in nroff

.It \e& Ta zero-width space

.It \e& Ta zero-width non-breaking space

.It \e) Ta zero-width space transparent to end-of-sentence detection

.It \e% Ta zero-width space allowing hyphenation

.It \e: Ta zero-width space allowing line break

.El

.Pp

Lines:

Line 543 Accented letters:

Line 545 Accented letters:

.It \e(\(aqI Ta \('I Ta acute I

.It \e(\(aqO Ta \('O Ta acute O

.It \e(\(aqU Ta \('U Ta acute U

.It \e(\(aqY Ta \('Y Ta acute Y

.It \e(\(aqa Ta \('a Ta acute a

.It \e(\(aqe Ta \('e Ta acute e

.It \e(\(aqi Ta \('i Ta acute i

.It \e(\(aqo Ta \('o Ta acute o

.It \e(\(aqu Ta \('u Ta acute u

.It \e(\(aqy Ta \('y Ta acute y

.It \e(\(gaA Ta \(`A Ta grave A

.It \e(\(gaE Ta \(`E Ta grave E

.It \e(\(gaI Ta \(`I Ta grave I

Line 761 For backward compatibility with existing manuals,

Line 765 For backward compatibility with existing manuals,

.Xr mandoc 1

also supports the

.Pp

.Dl \eN\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq

.Dl \eN\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq and \e[ Ns Cm char Ns Ar number ]

.Pp

escape sequence, inserting the character

escape sequences, inserting the character

.Ar number

from the current character set into the output.

Of course, this is inherently non-portable and is already marked

as deprecated in the Heirloom roff manual.

as deprecated in the Heirloom roff manual;

For example, do not use \eN\(aq34\(aq, use \e(dq, or even the plain

on top of that, the second form is a GNU extension.

For example, do not use \eN\(aq34\(aq or \e[char34], use \e(dq,

or even the plain

.Sq \(dq

character where possible.

.Sh COMPATIBILITY

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