Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!mailrus!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jaap+ From: jaap+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jaap Akkerhuis) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: troff hyphenation points Message-ID: Date: 31 Oct 88 23:39:49 GMT References: <198@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 5 In-Reply-To: <198@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> Note that the standard troff exceptions list has only room for 128 characters or so. If you want to get around this you can follow the route a lot of people took. You can build a preprocessor which insert the soft hyphenation character (default \%) in every word of the input. jaap