Re: non-obvious help needed

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:43:28 -0700
> From: Bruce Korb <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> I know how to escape the hyphen for my current example, but how
> do I do it with plain text?

The idea is that in plain text you _shouldn't_ have a single hyphen,
unless you mean the minus sign (in which case use @minus{}).  If you
need a dash, use -- or ---, which will be converted to em-dash or
en-dash in print.