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Summary: src: the first letter hyphenated in an English word
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: bjarniig
Submitted on: Sun 19 Nov 2017 10:01:29 PM UTC
Category: Core
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
Some wrong English hyphenations that I saw today, "y-ou" and "s-ince".
As I use "man" with the options "--no-hyphenation --no-justification", I
do not usually see any (wrong) hyphenations.
The patterns causing this are "y1o4" and "2s1in".
The algorithm for hyphenations in groff is either too simple or has a bug.
The original algorithm (TeX) has hard-coded restrictions that are correct
for English, but not for all other languages.
Patterns that begin or end with a period have a purpose. Other patterns
should therefore not be applied to the beginning of words.
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