Re: [9front] werc/apps/wman botches some man page links

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On Aug 13, 2018, at 4:26 AM, Travis Moore <umbraticus@prosimetrum.com> wrote:
> 
> if you insert a backslash before the offending
> hyphen in the source it prevents the split.
> 
> not sure if this is helpful, but perhaps it
> shouldn't be splitting in the regular text
> output either...
> 
> from /sys/doc/troff.ps!25 :
> 
>    Words that contain hyphens ... are
>    always subject to splitting after
>    those characters, whether automatic
>    hyphenation is on or off.
> 
> so you can't just turn off hyphenation...

I think the best solution is to insert a newline
immediately after the man page link, wherever
it may fall. This isn’t perfect but it’s better than
having one infinitely long line sticking out of
an otherwise consistently formatted section.

I’m reluctant to bin the markdown-transiting
version because it’s output includes less
tags and is less likely to trigger CSS
convulsions.

sl