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[Douglas McIlroy]

> However, no matter what you do, you simply *cannot* end the last line
> of a column or page with a hyphen.predicting

Alas, it happens regularly in real life.

The groff line-filling algorithm would have a hard time predicting a page
break, for the break is usually the result of a yet-unseen .br, typically
hidden in the text of a macro invoked by a line trap.

Back to Branden's original question. I woulld expect the hyphenation count
to be zero at the top of a column or page.

Doug