On Mon, 30 May 2016 14:29:30 +0200 stef...@sdaoden.eu (Steffen (Daode) Nurpmeso) wrote:
> 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. On Mon, 30 May 2016 15:07:35 +0200 Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> wrote: > Oh! > > i wrote: > |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 > > that finally made me think: Eli Zaretskii is so active on the > Unicode list, why don't you use the Pd character class for > detecting «hyphen»? I guess this should cover all such things > already as of today, thanks to Werner Lemberg?! Thanks for the feedback; I'll take up your remarks and suggestions with Eli. Steve Berman
