Re: [groff] seeking fixed-width breakable space

[Dale Snell]

You might try using "\:", which is a zero-width break point, similar to
"\%", except that it doesn't have the hyphen.  I have not tested this, but
you should be able to do something like "mrphl\|\:blrphl" and the two words
should be separated by a thinspace
that can break.  At least, I think it should work.

Hope this helps.

--dds

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On Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 11:47 PM Dave Kemper <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 2/21/19, G. Branden Robinson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > At 2019-02-21T19:40:18-0600, Dave Kemper wrote:
> >> As far as I can determine, groff does not offer a fixed-width,
> >> breakable space.
> >
> > Will the digit space (\0) do?
>
> It would if it were breakable.
>
> printf '.ll 1c\na b c d e f g\n' | groff -a
> printf '.ll 1c\na b c d e f g\n' | sed -E 's/ ([b-g])/\\0\1/g' | groff -a
>
>