> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:19:45AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > From: Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > > I found another problem that groff-1.16 never use hyphenation.
> > > (I tried 'LANG=en_US man ls' using groff_1.16-0 and groff_1.15.3-1.
> > > Of course I deleted /var/cache/man/cat1/ls.1.gz.)
> >
> > Interesting. What has happened?
No problem with 1.16.1 here (checked with both -Tlatin1 and -Tascii).
> >
>
> >From the changelog:
> >> 1999-11-16 Gaius Mulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >> Turning off hyphenation.
>
> Was this intentional or a mistake?
Intentional. Hyphenation in HTML files is a bad thing since the
formatter is the browser and not groff.
> That entry in the Changelog misses the star that prepend each and any
> other entry. it looks like a note forgot there .-)
It's correct.
Werner
