- } else if (*q == '-' && !(quote_props & QUOTE_LITERAL)) {
- /* Turn nonbreakable hyphens into \(hy. */
- rdaddsc(&out, "\\(hy");
- continue;
+ } else if (*q == '-') {
+ if (quote_props & QUOTE_LITERAL) {
+ /*
+ * Try to preserve literal U+002D.
+ * This is quite awkward. Debian hacks groff so that
+ * \- and - both produce it; elsewhere it's not necessarily
+ * possible to get it.
+ * Apparently \- is the preferred compromise despite
+ * having minus-sign semantics, as it is non-breaking.
+ * (pod2man uses it, anyway.)
+ */
+ rdaddc(&out, '\\');
+ } else {
+ /* Turn nonbreakable hyphens into \(hy. */
+ rdaddsc(&out, "\\(hy");
+ continue;
+ }