> I prefer groff's behaviour because I don't ever want correct > hyphenation points to be ignored. Using \% is almost always a > correction to the hyphenation logic.
Groff's current behavior is weirdly inconsistent. It already *does* ignore correct hyphenation points, namely before the first "\%" (but allows them afterward). Except if the word *starts* with "\%" and does not contain any other "\%", in which case hyphenation is entirely suppressed in the whole word. My concern is that if "\%" only allows specifying *additional* hyphenation points, then we have no method of forbidding hyphenation points that the patterns incorrectly allow. (Unless you count weird tricks like inserting "\h'0p'" that could mess with the kerning.)
