Re: [Groff] hyphenation problems

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Werner,

> If you say `groff -Tlatin1 foo', you get this:
> 
>   Eingabe-Kodepunkt 0xABCD     Eingabe-Kodepunkt 0xABCD    Eingabe-
>   Kodepunkt 0xABCD                         Eingabe-Kodepunkt 0xABCD
>   Eingabe-Kodepunkt 0xABCD
> 
> As you can see, the fourth word (in the second line) isn't hyphenated,
> whereas the third word is.  This is definitely a bug, which I believe
> is fixed now -- the current groff snapshot produces
> 
>   Eingabe-Kodepunkt 0xABCD     Eingabe-Kodepunkt 0xABCD    Eingabe-
>   Kodepunkt 0xABCD        Eingabe-Kodepunkt 0xABCD         Eingabe-
>   Kodepunkt 0xABCD

This isn't a complaint about the fix, but hypens at the end of two
lines in a row sure looks ugly.  I have faint recollections of
something somewhere, TeX?, lout?, deliberately bearing this in mind.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?


Ralph.