Re: Soft hyphens

[Peter Schaffter]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2021, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 3/28/21, Peter Schaffter <peter@schaffter.ca> wrote:
> > I'm wondering if the interpretation of soft hyphens when .nh is
> > active is correct behaviour.
> 
> I don't know the answer to your question,

I got an answer from Doug McIlroy.

 "In pre-Unix roff hyphenation mode 0 turned off all breaking of words.
  The original troff, however, behaved as described above, and also
  broke genuinely hyphenated words in mode 0."

> but in general, anything that will require some kind of change
> --even if it's presently unknown whether that change is to the
> software or to the documentation--should have a savannah ticket
> opened (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=groff&func=additem) to
> keep tabs on it.

>From what Doug said, I don't think it qualifies as a bug, more of
an idiosyncracy.  I do think it needs to be documented in the info
manual, though.  I've opened a ticket and assigned it to Branden.

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Peter Schaffter
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