Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site wnuxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!hw3b!wnuxb!djmolny From: djmolny@wnuxb.UUCP (Ron Heiby) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: hyphenation Message-ID: <231@wnuxb.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 00:03:06 EDT Article-I.D.: wnuxb.231 Posted: Tue Sep 4 00:03:06 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Aug-84 00:33:18 EDT References: <221@wnuxb.UUCP> Organization: AT&T - Computer Systems Division Lines: 18 Reply-to: I have received a number of responses to my query. Thank you all very much. Several suggested that I use the ".tr" command to fake out nroff into using a different character where I want a "-", which will happen after the hyphenation operations. A couple of notes (like this one) pointed out how I mis-read the manual. (Not the most intuitive, but close.) > ".nh" only turns off automatic hyphenation, i.e., "nroff"/"troff" inserting > hyphenations into words not explicitly hyphenated. To turn off hyphenation > on a word, put "\%" at the beginning. Read section 13, "Hyphenation", in > the NROFF/TROFF User's Manual, where this is all stated explicitly. > > Guy Harris > {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy One suggested that using "\-" instead of "-" might work. That sounds good to me, but I haven't tried it yet, since getting the "\%word-word" solution. Thanks again. Ron Heiby. ihnp4!wnuxa!heiby.