Why are we using Info, again? Was it because of GNU policy? Or is there a more compelling reason as to why we're maintaining two different versions of the same documentation?
On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 5:42 am Doug McIlroy <d...@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote: > groff(7) doesn't tell what the hyphenation modes are. > It directs you to info for the "gory details". > But info doesn't tell everything either. It omits .hy 0ยท > > Mode bits 2, 4, and 8 turn off certain hyphenations. > A literal reading of info would have .hy 0 turn them on. > > Since groff(7) is otherwise so complete, I'd love to see > it fixed. That can be done succinctly, and more accurately > than info, as follows > > .hy same as .hy 1 > .hy 0 turn hyphenation off > .hy N turn hyphenation on, modified by some bits of N: > 2 don't hyphenate across page boundaries > 4 don't hyphenate first two letters of a word > 8 don't hyphenate last two letters of a word > > Doug > >