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2020-02-15 Thread Doug McIlroy
Subject: " Re: man Macro Package and pdfmark" > Just don't do that. Never use low-level roff stuff in manual pages, > don't even think about it. This makes your manual pages non-portable. I can understand why playing with private aspects of the macro package may be unportable. And it would be po

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2018-03-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Adding more invalid hyphenation points only happens if you use an >> incorrect (i.e., a too small) value for lefthyphenmin and/or >> righthyphenmin. > > I do not profess to know anything about the hyphenation algorithm, > but this statement suggests to me that inconsistent ("incorrect") > comb

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2018-03-19 Thread Doug McIlroy
> Adding more invalid hyphenation points only happens if you use an incorrect > (i.e., a too small) value for lefthyphenmin and/or righthyphenmin. I do not profess to know anything about the hyphenatiion algorithm, but this statement suggests to me that inconsistent ("incorrect") combinations of h