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From: | Branden Robinson |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH v2 04/18] Protect literals from hyphenation. |
Date: | Sat, 23 Sep 2023 17:44:59 -0500 |
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 06:56:48AM -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 are left as-is, such
> as "tic", "TRUE", "FALSE", "ERR", "OK", "NULL", and "bool".
>
> GNU troff (by default) won't hyphenate "color" or "mcprint", but will
> "colors" and "errno".
>
> Paragraph tags are not thus protected since they shouldn't need it;
> their lines won't ordinarily break and so won't hyphenate. By contrast,
> lists of man pages in "SEE ALSO" sections might, so they _do_ get
> protection.
this diff produces a "(-" at the end of line for curs_terminfo.3x,
curs_trace.3x (as before) and curs_util.3x
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