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Article #306Re: hyphenation
From: Ron Heiby
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1984 04:03
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1984 04:03
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I have received a number of responses to my query. Thank you all very
much. Several suggested that I use the ".tr" command to fake out
nroff into using a different character where I want a "-", which will
happen after the hyphenation operations. A couple of notes (like
this one) pointed out how I mis-read the manual. (Not the most
intuitive, but close.)
> ".nh" only turns off automatic hyphenation, i.e., "nroff"/"troff" inserting
> hyphenations into words not explicitly hyphenated. To turn off hyphenation
> on a word, put "\%" at the beginning. Read section 13, "Hyphenation", in
> the NROFF/TROFF User's Manual, where this is all stated explicitly.
>
> Guy Harris
> {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy
One suggested that using "\-" instead of "-" might work. That sounds good
to me, but I haven't tried it yet, since getting the "\%word-word" solution.
Thanks again. Ron Heiby. ihnp4!wnuxa!heiby.
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