Re: How to turn off hyphenation when writing roff/man pages? Variables nor metadata works

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

Nicolas Hillegeer <nicolashillegeer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Is there perhaps some other way to prevent hyphenation of either:
>
>   - A section.
>   - "Words" that have been marked a certain way (like bolded or in code
> blocks). I tried a number of things but nothing seemed to take effect in
> that sense. I would've expected code blocks to do it (as in, they would be
> verbatim).

You can turn off groff hyphenation at any point in the
document, I think, by doing

.nh

and then re-enable it with

.hy

So one option would be to insert

```{=man}
.nh
```

before your table, and

```{=man}
.hy
```

after it.  These will be passed through to man output.

It would be nice to make this more automatic for code,
but I don't see a way to do that other than using a
custom macro for code, which would make pandoc's
output a little more brittle.