* Re: [TUHS] Soft hyphens
@ 2021-03-29 20:28 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-29 20:40 ` M Douglas McIlroy
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From: M Douglas McIlroy @ 2021-03-29 20:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: peter, TUHS main list
> 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
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* Re: [TUHS] Soft hyphens
2021-03-29 20:28 [TUHS] Soft hyphens M Douglas McIlroy
@ 2021-03-29 20:40 ` M Douglas McIlroy
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From: M Douglas McIlroy @ 2021-03-29 20:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: peter, TUHS main list
Sorry, I hit send by mistake. I intended to conclude with:
If you really want to hyphenate one day and not the next,
you can pick a character c and use ".hc c" to turn it on and
.char c \& to turn it off.
Doug
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 4:28 PM M Douglas McIlroy
<m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> > 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
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