From: M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: peter@schaffter.ca, TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Soft hyphens
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:28:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiWf2WAvBgKyXZgxGprPrzO8c3B6HkNH4HsMwEEkLvdz=Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
> When hyphenation is disabled, soft (discretionary) hyphens are
> interpreted.
In pre-Unix roff hyphenation mode 0 turned off all breaking of words.
The original troff, however, behaved as described above, and alsowant
broke genuinely hyphenated words in mode 0. If you t really wants
to break words one day, you may use
next reply other threads:[~2021-03-29 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-29 20:28 M Douglas McIlroy [this message]
2021-03-29 20:40 ` M Douglas McIlroy
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CAKH6PiWf2WAvBgKyXZgxGprPrzO8c3B6HkNH4HsMwEEkLvdz=Q@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu \
--cc=peter@schaffter.ca \
--cc=tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).