Re: [Groff] Hyphenation and email/web addresses <minor www.tmac patch>

[Gaius Mulley]

Larry Kollar <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wednesday, February 18, 2004, at 03:07 PM, (Ted Harding) wrote:
> 
> >> like to prevent email addresses and URLs from being  hyphenated as
> >> this may cause them to be interpreted incorrectly.
> >
> > The simplest way to do this would be to precede each such thing
> > with the request .nh, and follow it with .hy, for instance
> >
> > ...
> > Andy Crichton's email address is
> > .nh
> > address@hidden
> > .hy
> > to which you may email any queries.
> 
> Could this be built into the .MTO and .URL macros in -mwww?

good idea.. I think this patch fixes the problem..

--- groff/tmac/www.tmac Thu Jan 15 07:47:25 2004
+++ ../groff-html/tmac/www.tmac Fri Feb 20 08:00:57 2004
@@ -301,12 +301,14 @@
 .       HTML <a href="\\$1">\\$2</a>\\$3
 .  \}
 .  el \{\
+.    nh
 .    if !r ps4html .ad l
 .    ie '\\$2'' \
 .       nop \%\[la]\m[blue]\f[C]\\*[\\$0:adr]\f[]\m[]\[ra]\\$3
 .    el \
 .       nop \m[blue]\\$2\m[] \%\[la]\f[C]\\*[\\$0:adr]\f[]\[ra]\\$3
 .    if !r ps4html .ad
+.    hy
 .  \}
 .  rm \\$0:adr
 ..
@@ -340,10 +342,12 @@
 .      URL mailto:\\$1 "\\$2" "\\$3"
 .  \}
 .  el \{\
+.    nh
 .    ie '\\$2'' \
 .      nop \%\m[blue]\f[C]\\$1\f[]\m[]\\$3
 .    el \
 .      nop \m[blue]\\$2\m[] \%\[la]\f[C]\\$1\f[]\[ra]\\$3
+.    hy
 .  \}
 ..
 .\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
 .\"
 .de JOBNAME
 .  HTML-TAG .job-name \\$1


enjoy,

Gaius