For one thing, it annoys me that the hyphenation language code for
English is wrong. For another, it annoys me that no effort is made to
determine groff's locale from the system.
Please see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59814 .
Attaching patch here as well for interest.
I don't intend to merge
On 1/4/21, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> For one thing, it annoys me that the hyphenation language code for
> English is wrong.
I have no objection to changing this. But I observe that the file we
call(ed) tmac/hyphenex.us comes from TeX
(http://ctan.org/pkg/hyphenex), where it's billed explicitl
At 2021-01-13T02:43:46-0600, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 1/4/21, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > For one thing, it annoys me that the hyphenation language code for
> > English is wrong.
>
> I have no objection to changing this. But I observe that the file we
> call(ed) tmac/hyphenex.us comes from TeX
On 1/14/21, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> If Commonwealthers are sufficiently annoyed by Umerican hyphenation
> patterns being applied to the Queen's English, they should contribute
> en_GB hyphenation and exception files.
A very good point. Groff is making available all the hyphenation data
