Re: documentation of hyphenation

2020-06-13 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 14/06/20 14:40:44, John Gardner wrote: Why are we using Info, again? Was it because of GNU policy? Or is there a more compelling reason as to why we're maintaining two different versions of the same documentation? There are probably two reasons why Doug has referenced info. First, he may

Re: documentation of hyphenation

2020-06-13 Thread John Gardner
Why are we using Info, again? Was it because of GNU policy? Or is there a more compelling reason as to why we're maintaining two different versions of the same documentation? On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 5:42 am Doug McIlroy wrote: > groff(7) doesn't tell what the hyphenation modes are. > It directs you

documentation of hyphenation

2020-06-13 Thread Doug McIlroy
groff(7) doesn't tell what the hyphenation modes are. It directs you to info for the "gory details". But info doesn't tell everything either. It omits .hy 0· Mode bits 2, 4, and 8 turn off certain hyphenations. A literal reading of info would have .hy 0 turn them on. Since groff(7) is otherwise