From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [TUHS] [groff] The hyphenation algorithm produces wrong results
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 15:42:40 -0500 [thread overview]
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On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> I hadn't realized that groff hyphenation had been taken from
> Tex, not troff. Is that becuase Tex did a better job, or
> because troff's was deemed proprietary?
>
> Given the author, I would guess the later as he wanted to be FOSS and
would not have looked at the ditroff source - but that guess is worth just
that ;-)
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2018-03-04 20:23 Doug McIlroy
2018-03-04 20:42 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2018-03-04 21:00 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-04 21:32 ` Toby Thain
2018-03-04 21:50 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-03-04 22:36 ` Bakul Shah
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