Re: displaying dashes

/ Bek Oberin <gossamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
| Got a problem with double-dashes in DocBook:
| 
| Skud wrote:
| > In the print output, double dashes (eg "--") are smushed down to one
| > dash ("-"), which is fine in most cases.  The problem is when it happens

This is a TeX backend bug. TeX thinks '--' in the input souce is an
abbreviation for an em-dash.

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm

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