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commit 329412964e05d0a22be3aee10e73c441651aa1d0
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Jan 4 02:36:15 2025 -0600
NEWS: Clarify item.
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NEWS | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 13741f5dc..9da43f0fa 100644
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@@ -119,10 +119,12 @@ troff
.hy
the foregoing request would not do exactly what we expect.
- AT&T and other troffs would set the hyphenation mode to 1 instead of
- the previous value; for GNU troff this was not an appropriate value
- for the English hyphenation patterns. (For example, "alibi" would
- break as "ali-bi" instead of "al-ibi" after this argumentless `hy`
+ AT&T and other troffs apply a hyphenation mode of 1 to the final
+ input line (and subsequent ones), rather than restoring the mode in
+ use before the `nh` request. Apart from overturning user
+ expectations, for GNU troff "1" is not an appropriate value for its
+ English hyphenation patterns. (For example, "alibi" would break as
+ "ali-bi" instead of "al-ibi" after this argumentless `hy`
invocation.) With updates to groff's localization files accompanying
this release, the foregoing input now works as desired.
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