Arch Linux

> hyphens and apostrophes are no longer searchable

Not quite correct. hyphens are still searchable, but not when preceded by some other text. e.g. searching for "-k" works fine.

Have you reported this upstream to ask them about it?

> Not quite correct. hyphens are still searchable, but not when preceded by some other text. e.g. searching for "-k" works fine.

That’s because those are not hyphens, those are minus signs. In groff you typeset hyphen with “-“ and minus signs with “\-“. Options are typically typeset as minus signs, but hyphens within text are usually typeset as hyphens (zsh manpages are a notable exception, you can search everything there just fine, but that’s because hyphens are not really hyphens there).

> Have you reported this upstream to ask them about it?

There is nothing to report upstream, this is a well known peculiarity of groff. See for instance here: https://opensource.apple.com/source/groff/groff-32/groff/PROBLEMS.auto.html or here https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-01/msg00074.html

> There is nothing to report upstream

Ok, I misunderstood. Sorry! I thought you were referring to an upstream commit :/

Anyway, I assume you have seen  FS#79053  which was the reason for the change.

```diff
PKGBUILD | 13 ++++++++++---
site.tmac | 5 -----
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git i/PKGBUILD w/PKGBUILD
index 996983c..fd06019 100644
--- i/PKGBUILD
+++ w/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

pkgname=groff
pkgver=1.23.0
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
pkgdesc='GNU troff text-formatting system'
arch=('x86_64')
url='https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html'
@@ -16,10 +16,12 @@ optdepends=('netpbm: for use together with man -H command interaction in browser
options=('!docs' '!emptydirs' '!makeflags')
validpgpkeys=('2D0C08D2B0AD0D3D8626670272D23FBAC99D4E75') # Bertrand Garrigues <bertrand.garrigues@laposte.net>
source=("https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"{,.sig}
- display-utc-times.patch)
+ display-utc-times.patch
+ 'site.tmac')
sha256sums=('6b9757f592b7518b4902eb6af7e54570bdccba37a871fddb2d30ae3863511c13'
'SKIP'
- '489bb32bbd1c7bced33bf187611219527914ae46ce05238fe80dc11c4b1bb909')
+ '489bb32bbd1c7bced33bf187611219527914ae46ce05238fe80dc11c4b1bb909'
+ 'f0b8a69d8dc51fe6812d3c7adbdba59b8206cfa952f2ce3ee7ff7f5412903018')

prepare() {
cd $pkgname-$pkgver
@@ -51,4 +53,9 @@ package() {
ln -s eqn "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/geqn
ln -s tbl "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/gtbl
ln -s soelim "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/zsoelim
+
+ cat "$srcdir"/site.tmac >> \
+ "$pkgdir"/usr/share/groff/site-tmac/man.local
+ cat "$srcdir"/site.tmac >> \
+ "$pkgdir"/usr/share/groff/site-tmac/mdoc.local
}
diff --git i/site.tmac w/site.tmac
index 7bd28aa..7c04fdc 100644
--- i/site.tmac
+++ w/site.tmac
@@ -7,9 +7,4 @@
. char - \N'45'
. char ' \N'39'
. \}
-.
-. \" Shut off SGR by default (groff colors)
-. \" Require GROFF_SGR envvar defined to turn it on
-. if '\V[GROFF_SGR]'' \
-. output x X tty: sgr 0
.\}
```

1.23.0-3 should fix it.