Disable Hyphenation Using -ms

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From: Darryl Olson
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 1985 16:54

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I want to turn off automatic hyphenation.  I use the following nroff command:

    /usr/bin/nroff -ms nroff_header FILENAME

If the file, nroff_header, includes the .nh command and a -ms macro command,
either before or after the .nh command, then automatic hyphenation is turned
off.  If the file does not contain a -ms macro command, then automatic
hyphenation is not turned off.  Thus, a version of the file, nroff_header,
containing:

.nh         \"disable hyphenation
.LP         \"invoke the ms macro package

will turn automatic hyphenation off.  But, a version of the file containing
only:

.nh         \"disable hyphenation

will not turn automatic hyphenation off.

My question is: 
   How can automatic hyphenation be turned off without including a -ms macro
   command in the file, nroff_header?


Thanks in advance for the help.

Darryl Olson

     ...uw-beaver!teltone!dataio!olson

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Subject: Disable Hyphenation Using -ms
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 11:54:03 EST
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