Re: [Groff] hyphenation in words with explicit hyphen

[Werner LEMBERG]

> While hyphenated compounds tend not to have other break points, it
> seems to be allowable to break at the last point if they are long.
>
> ...
>
>       single-handed
>       single-handed+ly
>       single-handed+ness
>       single-minded
>       single-minded+ly
>       single-minded+ness
> 
> (it's coincedence that "handed" and "minded" have the same number of
> characters.)

This is good news.  It seems that English `aesthetical' rules are
basically the same as in German: The distance between an explicit and
an implicit hyphenation point is about 6 characters.


    Werner