Hi onf,
At 2025-02-04T20:53:03+0100, onf wrote:
> Let nroff explain it:
> $ nroff -ww << EOF
> .tm \n[.hla]
> .ev epigram
> .hla fr
> .tm \n[.hla]
> .ev
> .tm \n[.hla]
> EOF
> en
> fr
> fr
An excellent procedure, one I endorse.
> In other words, hyphenation language setting
At 2025-02-04T22:15:47+0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > In other words, hyphenation language setting is not local
> > to the environment...
>
> But French would allow hyphenation of "commonplaces".
Yes it would!
Uh-oh! My puzzler was somewhat defective. The French hyphenation
patterns never g
> > But French would allow hyphenation of "commonplaces".
> Would it?
Funnily yes, and this had me initially confused. Try:
.hla fr
.hpf hyphen.fr
.hla en
.hpf hyphen.us
.sp
.ev epigram
.hla fr
.rj 1
L'homme c'est rien\[em]l'\[oe]uvre c'est tout.
.ev
.sp
My life is spe
> Notably, this design doesn't _prevent_ anyone changing hyphenation
> language when they switch environments -- it just doesn't do it
> automatically. That is, it covers the common case, but gives the user
> flexibility to handle other cases. With the scope of both hyphenation
> mode and hyphe
On Wed Feb 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM CET, onf wrote:
[...]
> I thus intuitivelly expected environments to save all formatting-related
> properties.
s/\./, including hyphenation settings./
On Tue Feb 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM CET, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM onf wrote:
> > In other words, hyphenation language setting is not local to the
> > environment... which seems like a really unintuitive behavior,
>
> Being one of the disqualifieds from this challenge (having
On Tue Feb 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM CET, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > In other words, hyphenation language setting is not local
> > to the environment...
>
> But French would allow hyphenation of "commonplaces".
Would it?
$ nroff -ww << EOF
.pl 3
.ll 60n
My life is spent in one long effort to escape
> In other words, hyphenation language setting is not local
> to the environment...
But French would allow hyphenation of "commonplaces".
On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM onf wrote:
> In other words, hyphenation language setting is not local to the
> environment... which seems like a really unintuitive behavior,
Being one of the disqualifieds from this challenge (having been in
prior discussion about it on savannah), I've had a few e
Hi Branden,
On Tue Feb 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I have another puzzler.
[...]
> Consider the following input:
> $ cat EXPERIMENTS/multilingual-trivia-challenge.groff
> .sp
> .ce 1
> A Study in Redheads
> .sp
> .ev epigram
> .hla fr
> .hy 6
> .ad r
> L'homme c'est rien\
Hi Tadziu,
At 2025-02-04T13:58:26+0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > [...] explain why the word "commonplaces" hyphenates in the second
> > exhibit but not the first.
>
> Interesting! It's not clear from the documentation why it behaves
> this way (or even, once you know how to fix it, what specif
> [...] explain why the word "commonplaces" hyphenates in the
> second exhibit but not the first.
Interesting! It's not clear from the documentation why it
behaves this way (or even, once you know how to fix it, what
specifically the solution changes in the internal state to
make it work and w
Hi folks,
I have another puzzler.
(A few people--they know who they are--are disqualified from this
challenge. Please don't spoil it. ;-) )
Consider the following input:
$ cat EXPERIMENTS/multilingual-trivia-challenge.groff
.sp
.ce 1
A Study in Redheads
.sp
.ev epigram
.hla fr
.hy 6
.ad r
L'ho
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