8 Nov
2018
8 Nov
'18
4:30 p.m.
I have a vague intuition right now that the
hyphenation decisions
...
should be accessible without having to invoke the output driver.
Would't that require some way to detect a hyphenation event?
Offhand, I can't think of a way to do that.
But if you know in advance what word's hyphenation is in
question, you could switch environments, use the .ll 1u
trick in a diversion, and base your decision on the result.
Doug
8 Nov
8 Nov
4:49 p.m.
New subject: [groff] How to show all hyphenation points?
[adding groff@gnu back into CC]
I think the TUHS guys might be wondering where this topic came from. :)
At 2018-11-08T11:30:46-0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
That's a harder problem than I was trying to crack; I just wanted to be
able to ask the underlying *roff where it _might_ hyphenate a word, not
where it actually ended up hyphenating one on the output.
I have a vague
intuition right now that the hyphenation decisions
...
should be accessible without having to invoke the output driver.
Would't that require some way to detect a hyphenation event?
Offhand, I can't think of a way to do that. But if you know in advance what word's
hyphenation is in
question, you could switch environments, use the .ll 1u
trick in a diversion, and base your decision on the result.
That had not occurred to me; I am not au fait with diversions. Thanks!
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Regards,
Branden
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