Re: [Groff] hyphenation in words with explicit hyphen

[Stewart C. Russell]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> The distance between an explicit and
> an implicit hyphenation point is about 6 characters.

UK english doesn't use distance rules (whereas US English does, or tends
to). It's all on syllables, and stress, which you can't work out unless
you have a manually created table       :-(

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