29 Mar
2021
29 Mar
'21
8:28 p.m.
When hyphenation is disabled, soft (discretionary)
hyphens are
interpreted.
In pre-Unix roff hyphenation mode 0 turned off all breaking of words.
The original troff, however, behaved as described above, and alsowant
broke genuinely hyphenated words in mode 0. If you t really wants
to break words one day, you may use
29 Mar
29 Mar
8:40 p.m.
New subject: Soft hyphens
Sorry, I hit send by mistake. I intended to conclude with:
If you really want to hyphenate one day and not the next,
you can pick a character c and use ".hc c" to turn it on and
.char c \& to turn it off.
Doug
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 4:28 PM M Douglas McIlroy
<m.douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
When hyphenation is disabled, soft
(discretionary) hyphens are
interpreted.
In pre-Unix roff hyphenation mode 0 turned off all breaking of words.
The original troff, however, behaved as described above, and alsowant
broke genuinely hyphenated words in mode 0. If you t really wants
to break words one day, you may use
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