Re: [PATCH 2/9] Protect literals from hyphenation.

[Branden Robinson]

Hi Thomas,

Sorry for the unauthenticated mail; I'm travelling, but wanted to acknowledge the issue. Actually there are 9 occurrences of this problem in v2 of the patch.

Long story short, sequences like this:

(\fB\%

need to be rewritten as

\%(\fB

because of how *roff defines word boundaries, and the semantics of `\%`.

I can prepare a v3 probably tomorrow if you'd like.

Regards,

Branden

On Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 16:07 Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:

On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 12:58:16PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Everything that is boldfaced is literal, so protect it from hyphenation.
> A few very short words that *roff won't hyphenate (like "tic") are left
> as-is.
>
> GNU troff (by default) won't hyphenate "color", but will "colors".
>
...
> * man/curs_trace.3x: Do it.

In this diff, there's one error:

   Command-line Utilities
       The  command-line  utilities  such  as  tic(1) provide a verbose option
       which extends the set of messages written using the curses_trace  func‐
       tion.   Both  of  these  (-v and curses_trace) use the same variable (‐
       _nc_tracing), which determines the messages which are written.

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