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Re: *roff hyphenation trivia challenge


From: Tadziu Hoffmann
Subject: Re: *roff hyphenation trivia challenge
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:55:43 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.11.4 (2019-03-13)

> Predict the output of the following *roff input.
> [...]

I guessed wrong.  And Heirloom nroff behaves differently
from groff.  Some more unexpected behavior can be seen
by shortening the line length to just 1 en.

I also tried the same thing in TeX and learned that by
default TeX doesn't hyphenate the first word of a paragraph.
(I didn't know this before, but I also never yet had to deal
with a document where this was necessary.)

Also interesting to see that in this word, the hyphenation
patterns don't suggest a hyphenation opportunity after "anti".





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