Werner Lemberg wrote: > > Using .hw works OK, but like I said, there are hundreds of these > > suckers. Is there any way to tell Groff that hyphenating at any > > '[a-z][A-Z]' junction is OK? > > No. The easiest thing is probably to use sed or awk in a > preprocessing step to insert `\%' at the appropriate places > automatically. Since uppercase almost always indicate a possible > breakpoint (you aren't writing Gaelic, aren't you? :-) this should be > rather straightforward.
Wow! Werner's linguistic skills, and knowledge, continue to amaze! Presumably here the reference is to the aspirated genitive form of a capitalised noun, as in `Uiscebhealaí Intíre na hÉireann', (Inland Waterways of Ireland), where we clearly see a lower case letter immediately followed by a capital, where hyphenation would not be appropriate. But, even in English, we see a similar construct; it appears in the anglicisation of Gaelic surnames, particularly Irish Gaelic surnames. For example, I'm told that my own Gaelic surname would be `mac Donald', (Son of Donald), which is commonly anglicised to McDonald. Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
