Hi Branden,
On 30/8/24 15:22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
I need guidance from real typographers.
GNU troff has long borne the following feature.
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I presume that this is configurable because it becomes uncomfortable for
the reader to see a river of hyphens at the right margin.
My question is: should a page break reset this count?
I wouldn't call myself a typographer but I refuse to allow hyphens to
break, usually via '.hy 0' or by using '\%'. I then kern the tripe out
of any offending line, often using Ted Harding's "poor man's kerning" trick.
However, no matter what you do, you simply *cannot* end the last line of
a column or page with a hyphen. So IMHSHO your question does not arise.
But I will defer to Peter. Maybe Doug also has an opinion.
Robert Thorsby
