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From: fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: incorrect hyphenation in (old) troff
Summary: is there any way to predict it?
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Date: 23 Jan 91 16:51:36 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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Is there any way to predict incorrect hyphenation in troff?

How about a shell script (a little like spell) that compares a "stop
list" to the text and perhaps prints warnings or generates ".hw"
requests?

I am currently using the troff that came with SunOS 4.0.3.

Brian Fitzgerald