[Tugindia] Dash question

[Adam Tindale]

Hello,

I have run into a small latex snag and I need a TeXpert. I am writing a 
manual in tex and I want to do a man type page with this symbol --. I 
know that this is an escape character in LaTeX. Here is where it gets 
tricky. I want to do this as a new command. There are too many of these 
symbols in my document to change them all.

I have made a command \doubledash. I have tried \textdash\textdash and 
{\bf \textdash\textdash}. I also tried $--$. None of these work nicely 
on the page. When I try to do verbatim in the macro pdflatex complains. 
I can't get something that looks nice on the page.

I welcome any suggestions and I thank you for taking the time to think 
about my problem.

art