hyphenation disappeared.

2000-08-07 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:19:45AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> From: Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> > I found another problem that groff-1.16 never use hyphenation.
> > (I tried 'LANG=en_US man ls' using groff_1.16-0 and groff_1.15.3-1.
> > Of course I deleted /var/cache/man/cat1/ls.1.gz.)
> 
> Interesting. What has happened?
> 

>From the changelog:
>> 1999-11-16  Gaius Mulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> 
>>  Turning off hyphenation.

Was this intentional or a mistake?
That entry in the Changelog misses the star that prepend each and any
other entry. it looks like a note forgot there .-)
And the file NEWS mention only the new name for soft hyphen.


fab
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Re: hyphenation disappeared.

2000-08-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG

> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:19:45AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > From: Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 
> > > I found another problem that groff-1.16 never use hyphenation.
> > > (I tried 'LANG=en_US man ls' using groff_1.16-0 and groff_1.15.3-1.
> > > Of course I deleted /var/cache/man/cat1/ls.1.gz.)
> > 
> > Interesting. What has happened?

No problem with 1.16.1 here (checked with both -Tlatin1 and -Tascii).

> > 
> 
> >From the changelog:
> >> 1999-11-16  Gaius Mulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> 
> >>Turning off hyphenation.
> 
> Was this intentional or a mistake?

Intentional.  Hyphenation in HTML files is a bad thing since the
formatter is the browser and not groff.

> That entry in the Changelog misses the star that prepend each and any
> other entry. it looks like a note forgot there .-)

It's correct.


Werner