On Sat, Apr 03, 2021, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 3/28/21, Peter Schaffter <pe...@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. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca
