Stephen Berman <stephen.ber...@gmx.net> wrote: |Does groff permit characters besides hyphen-minus (ASCII 45) and soft |hyphen (octal 255) for displaying hyphenation in man pages? I'm asking
I have been convinced that soft hyphen is a control character and not something visual, it should be used as a «break-indicator» rather than as a hyphenation character, interpretation of which is left as an excercise for the processing software. I have no idea still but would guess groff uses "hyphen minus" U+002D or hyphen U+2010 if Unicode is possible. |because the Emacs package man.el displays references to other man pages |(e.g. in the SEE ALSO section) as clickable links, but has a bug when |such a reference is hyphenated, and in trying to fix this bug the above |question arose (see |http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2016-05/msg01358.html). |I'd be grateful for a definitive answer or at least a pointer to |relevant documentation. Sorry. Truly. --steffen
