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Re: *roff hyphenation trivia challenge


From: Dave Kemper
Subject: Re: *roff hyphenation trivia challenge
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 13:52:18 -0500

On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 11:53 AM Tadziu Hoffmann
<hoffmann@usm.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> Also, "\&" is not a letter, so a leading "\&"
> should not influence hyphenation at all.

\[rq] is also not a letter, but it affects how \% is interpreted,
giving it its hyphenation-point meaning rather than its
suppress-hyphenation one.  I can think of no situation where this
would be the desired result.

.ll 1n
\[rq]\%antidisestablishmentarianism\[lq]
.br
\%\[rq]antidisestablishmentarianism\[lq]



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