Hi Dale,
> You might try using "\:", which is a zero-width break point, similar
> to "\%", except that it doesn't have the hyphen. I have not tested
> this, but you should be able to do something like "mrphl\|\:blrphl"
> and the two words should be separated by a thinspace that can break.
> At least, I think it should work.
I wonder if the `\:' looks like it is at the start of the word `blrphl',
in your example, and thus says to not hyphenate `blrphl' rather than
provide a break point for hyphenating `mrphl\|blrphl'.
$ cat breakspace.tr
.pl 15
.ll 1c
A b c d e f g
.br
A b c\0d\0e f g
.br
A b c\0d\:\0e f g
.br
A b c\0d\0\:e f g
.br
A b c\h'1n'd\&\h'1n'\&e f g
$
$ groff -a breakspace.tr
<beginning of page>
A b c
d e f g
A b
breakspace.tr:5: warning [p 1, 0.5i]: cannot adjust line
c d e
f g
A b
breakspace.tr:7: warning [p 1, 1.0i]: cannot adjust line
c d e
f g
A b
breakspace.tr:9: warning [p 1, 1.5i]: cannot adjust line
c d e
f g
A b
breakspace.tr:11: warning [p 1, 2.0i]: cannot adjust line
c d e
f g
$
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Cheers, Ralph.
