diff --git a/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt b/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt
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--- a/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt
+++ b/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ General:
     - There is a typographical difference between a hyphen, a minus and an
       en-dash or em-dash. For the man page this means that you should put a
       backslash before a '-' if it denotes a range (1\-10), an option (\-fs),
-      stdin (\-), a dash (mplayer \- movie player) or a minus (-1). Use just
+      stdin (\-), a dash (mplayer \- movie player) or a minus (\-1). Use just
       '-' if it is a hyphen (A-V).
     - Don't start a line with "'" or ".", nroff treats them specially.
     - To quickly check a manual page for markup errors, just run