[bug #61394] [troff] emits U+2010 HYPHEN when interpolating negative register values

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #61394 (project groff):

                  Status:               Postponed => Invalid                
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #2:

Revisiting after almost 2 years...

I don't think it's within *roff's design to cope with this.  But the user
can.

In AT&T *roff you could bracket the formatting of a negative register value
with character translations to do the needful.  You could also store the
register interpolation in a string first (keeping in mind that character
translation doesn't happen until _formatting_, which a string definition
isn't).


.tr -\-
.ds a \n(nl
page position is \*a
.tr --
son-in-law
.pl \n(nlu


Withdrawing; closing as invalid.


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