Re: [Groff] explicit hyphen and numbers

[Larry Kollar]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> Urs showed up an interesting problem in groff: A hyphen between two
> numbers does *not* insert a breakpoint!  To be more specific, the
> .cflags values 2 and 4 of a character x are only active if the
> characters before and after x both have non-zero hyphenation codes (as
> set with the `hcode' request).
> 
> Since it isn't possible to set the hcode value for numbers, things
> like `200-400' are never hyphenated.

Personally, I think that's a (good) feature. I'm sure someone will disagree. :-)

-- Larry