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

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Friday, 20 February 2004 at  8:25:46 +0000, Gaius Mulley wrote:
> 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..
>
> ...
>  .    if !r ps4html .ad
> +.    hy

This sets the hyphenation mode unconditionally, even if it was turned
off before.  You need to save the previous mode and restore it.  If I
read groff(7) correctly, this is stored in \n[.hy].

Greg
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