Re: [Groff] Permissible characters for hyphenation

[Stephen Berman]

On Mon, 30 May 2016 14:29:30 +0200 address@hidden (Steffen (Daode) Nurpmeso) 
wrote:

> Stephen Berman <address@hidden> wrote:
>  |Does groff permit characters besides hyphen-minus (ASCII 45) and soft
>  |hyphen (octal 255) for displaying hyphenation in man pages?  I'm asking
>
> I have been convinced that soft hyphen is a control character and
> not something visual, it should be used as a «break-indicator»
> rather than as a hyphenation character, interpretation of which is
> left as an excercise for the processing software.  I have no idea
> still but would guess groff uses "hyphen minus" U+002D or hyphen
> U+2010 if Unicode is possible.

On Mon, 30 May 2016 15:07:35 +0200 Steffen Nurpmeso <address@hidden> wrote:

> Oh!
>
> i wrote:
>  |Stephen Berman <address@hidden> wrote:
>  ||Does groff permit characters besides hyphen-minus (ASCII 45) and soft
>  ||hyphen (octal 255) for displaying hyphenation in man pages?  I'm asking
>
> that finally made me think: Eli Zaretskii is so active on the
> Unicode list, why don't you use the Pd character class for
> detecting «hyphen»?  I guess this should cover all such things
> already as of today, thanks to Werner Lemberg?!

Thanks for the feedback; I'll take up your remarks and suggestions with
Eli.

Steve Berman