Re: [Groff] explicit hyphen and numbers

[Keith Marshall]

On Thursday 10 August 2006 1:37 pm, Larry Kollar wrote:
> 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. :-)

I won't!  If I write a numeric range, such as `200-400', I *don't* want a 
line break to occur within it.

Regards,
Keith.