URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66016>
Summary: Document groff deviation(s) from historical .hw
handling
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: None
Submitted: Wed 24 Jul 2024 06:00:08 AM UTC
Category: Core
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Documentation
Status: None
Privacy: Public
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Date: Wed 24 Jul 2024 06:00:08 AM UTC By: Anonymous
In http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2024-04/msg00007.html Branden quoted CSTR #54
(1992):
.hw word
Specify hyphenation points in words with embedded minus signs.
Versions of a word with a terminal s are implied; i.e., dig-it
implies dig-its. This list is examined initially and after each
suffix stripping.
He then conjectured, "I expect the second and third sentences don't apply to
GNU troff..., but our documentation says nothing about this. Guess I'll have
to check."
In fact, the second sentence doesn't apply to groff (but does to Heirloom
troff), as illustrated by using .hw to assign hyphenation points to a made-up
word.
.de op
One brevallamarkol, two brevallamarkols.
.sp
..
.warn 0
.ll 1n
.op
.hw brev-all-a-mar-kol
.op
The third sentence still needs to be checked.
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