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RE: [Groff] hyphenation in words with explicit hyphen
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Ted Harding |
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RE: [Groff] hyphenation in words with explicit hyphen |
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Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:51:15 -0000 (GMT) |
On 20-Feb-01 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> shall I modify groff so that words which contain an explicit hyphen
> are hyphenated only there and not at different positions?
> current:
> sentence-ending
> ^ ^ ^
> new:
>
> sentence-ending
> ^
> This behaviour is also implemented in TeX.
>
> Maybe it makes sense to be not that rigid, e.g. I could add registers
> `explicit-hyphen-distance-before' (ehdb) and
> `explicit-hyphen-distance-after' (ehda) to specify the number of
> characters before and after an explicit hyphen which are protected
> against implicit breakpoints. At least for German this is useful;
> additionally, because groff can't optimize paragraphs, it possibly
> avoids ugly gaps in compound words.
I am against the rigidity of the first suggestion, and strongly
in favour of the "ehdb/ehda" mechanism.
German apart, if someone really wants to write
monooxydase-inhibitor
there could be great ugliness!
Ted.
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