Re: \: re-enables hyphenation--should it?

[Steve Izma]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 09:18:56AM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> Subject: Re: \: re-enables hyphenation--should it?
> 
> I'd mildly prefer to see \:'s hyphenation-reset behavior changed.  \%
> changes meaning depending on whether it's at the start or in the
> middle of a word, and your examples illustrate that it's acting with
> its beginning-of-word meaning when it follows a midword \:, which also
> seems incongruous (though necessary if the \: resetting behavior is
> retained).

Doesn't this depend on the definition of a word boundary? I'm not
familiar with groff internals, but thinking about the fact that a
word boundary has two modes in vi(1), for example (normally a word
being a sequence of alpha-numeric or "_" characters;
alternatively being a sequence of anything other than white
space), perhaps a word is defined differently in groff depending
on circumstances? A URL quite possibly breaks assumptions about
words that might be rooted in the early 1970s.

        -- Steve

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