keithmarshall pushed a commit to branch dev-gropdf-boxes in repository groff.
commit b21d200dd8380b46b0d2cdb2daeae0c510c90915 Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> AuthorDate: Wed Apr 7 17:58:07 2021 +1000 doc/groff.texi: Fix content and style nits. * doc/groff.texi (Manipulating Hyphenation): - Say "breakable" instead of "broken" to reinforce the notion of break points as circumstantial. - Expand passing mention of scope of hw request; it's all further processing in a run of the formatter, not just the current "document". - Fix misplaced modifier. --- doc/groff.texi | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi index 7789362..4a00462 100644 --- a/doc/groff.texi +++ b/doc/groff.texi @@ -7304,8 +7304,8 @@ matching a hyphenation exception defined with @code{hw}. Situations also arise when only a specific occurrence of a word needs its hyphenation altered or suppressed, or when something that is not a -word in a natural language, like a URL, needs to be broken in sensible -places without hyphens. +word in a natural language, like a URL, needs to be breakable in +sensible places without hyphens. @DefescList {\\%, , , } @DefescListEndx {\:, , , } @@ -7319,7 +7319,7 @@ Each instance within a word indicates to GNU @code{troff} that the word may be hyphenated at that point, while prefixing a word with this escape prevents it from being otherwise hyphenated. This mechanism affects only that occurrence of the word; to change the hyphenation of a -word for the remainder of the document, use the @code{hw} request. +word for the remainder of input processing, use the @code{hw} request. @cindex @code{\X}, followed by @code{\%} @cindex @code{\Y}, followed by @code{\%} @@ -7343,7 +7343,7 @@ output if it does. This escape is an input word boundary, so the remainder of the word is subject to hyphenation as normal. You can use @code{\:} and @code{\%} in combination to control breaking -of a file name or URL or to permit hyphenation after only certain +of a file name or URL or to permit hyphenation only after certain explicit hyphens within a word. @Example _______________________________________________ Groff-commit mailing list Groff-commit@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff-commit