Re: [Groff] hyphenation and grohtml

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > What do you think about putting the following lines into html.tmac:
> > 
> >   .de hy
> >   ..
> >   .de nh
> >   ..
> > 
> > Currently I don't see any adverse side effects, and we have finally
> > disabled hyphenation in HTML files.
> > 
> Maybe that's good enough for the release, as long as www.tmac is not
> crippled.  
> 
> Later on, a possible way could be to rewrite the link macros to handle 
> hyphenation and line breaks automatically.

???  I don't understand your remark.  Hyphenation should *never* be
active while producing HTML code.  The alternative discussed on the
list was to add a request for controlling .hy and .nh, but the above
four lines should be equivalent since those request can't be
reactivated, making them disappear completely.


    Werner


PS: An interesting alternative would be to do almost the opposite:
    inserting soft hyphen characters at all possible hyphenation
    points.  Of course, this would increase the size of HTML files a
    lot, but it could improve the appearance of the text.  Are there
    browsers available which honour shc?