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Re: hyphenation - (nf)

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From: olson
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 1984 23:11
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fortune!olson    Aug 23 13:28:00 1984

The only unconditionally successful method I have ever found is to
do something like
.tr [-
and then use [ everywhere there is a hyphen in the document.
(I usually just put in the hyphens and then do a global substitution
before running it thru nroff).
	Dave
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Subject: Re: hyphenation - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 19:11:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 19:11:09 1984
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