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It does, but for clarity and and completeness, the sentence must
mention soft hyphens. A word with a soft hyphen cannot be said to
be "explicitly hyphenated"; the nature of a soft hyphen is that it's
optional, not explicit. Even if it can be argued that a soft h
Hi, Peter!
At 2021-04-03T12:31:38-0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2021, Dave Kemper wrote:
> > On 3/28/21, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> > > I'm wondering if the interpretation of soft hyphens when .nh is
> > > active is correct behaviour.
> >
On Sat, Apr 03, 2021, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 3/28/21, Peter Schaffter 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.
On 3/28/21, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> I'm wondering if the interpretation of soft hyphens when .nh is
> active is correct behaviour. It's counter-intuitive and feels like
> a bug. If it is the expected behaviour, we need to amend the info
> manual to state that .n
When hyphenation is disabled, soft (discretionary) hyphens are
interpreted.
I discovered this when a mom user emailed me that (some) soft hyphens
were appearing as hard hyphens between syllables mid-line when run-on,
line-numbered footnotes were being output, even though hyphenation was
disabled
