[self-follow-up] At 2024-06-03T21:05:48-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > groff(7): > > 8 disables hyphenation after the first two characters of a > word.
Come to think of it, what you probably want is hyphenation mode 12, the _sum_ of 8 and 4. And if you don't want a word hyphenated before page breaks and similar (not a concern with modern formatters for terminals that contrive "infinite page length" for man pages), then what you want is mode 14, which brings us back to AT&T man(7)'s default. ;-) So, try .hy 12 \" or 14 in your man.local file. >> I was probably also grumbling about nroff hyphenating "error" and >> "Repeat", i.e., >> "er-" "ror" >> "Re-" "peat" >> It also split >> "parameters" as "pa-" "rameters" >> "obsolete" as "ob-" "solete" >> "default" as "de-" "fault" Recalling the script from my previous mail, we can demonstrate how this would work out in practice. $ HY=12 hyphen error repeat parameters obsolete default error repeat para‐me‐ters obso‐lete default Better? Regards, Branden
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