> See CSTR 54, ยง13. https://troff.org/54.pdf
Or better yet, https://troff.org/54.pdf#page=25
This should link directly to page 25 in PDF-savvy browsers (named
destinations can also be deep-linked in such a fashion, although this
requires knowledge of the anchor's internal ID, which is usually ob
> Or do you want hyphenation on elsewhere?
Yes, "peculiar" or "looking" by themselves should be eligible to be
split midword, but the combination "peculiar-looking" should be split
only at the existing hyphen, else the break is, well,
peculiar-looking.
Hi Dave,
> - preserves the breakability at the hyphen already in the word (\%
> inhibits this)
> - doesn't require locating and adorning every such word in the
> document
Turn hyphenation off?
$ nroff
.hy 0
.pl 4
.ll 18n
I I peculiar-looking
.br
I I \%peculiar-looking
Hi Ralph,
Thanks for the idea, and sorry for the vagueness in the problem
description. I'm looking for something that
- preserves the breakability at the hyphen already in the word (\%
inhibits this)
- doesn't require locating and adorning every such word in the document
While the latter prob
Hi Dave,
> pecu-
> liar-looking
>
> peculiar-look-
> ing
>
> This is subpar style, and I'd like to know if there's a way to tell
> groff not to add hyphens to words already containing hyphens, without
> inhibiting hyphenation of all other words.
Yes, prefix the word with `\%'.
$ nroff
.p
Hi,
If hyphenation is enabled, groff will split a line and add a hyphen to
a word that already contains a hyphen. The compound adjective
"peculiar-looking," for example, might get split as
pecu-
liar-looking
peculiar-look-
ing
This is subpar style, and I'd like to know if there's a way to tell
