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Re: [Groff] hyphenation and grohtml


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] hyphenation and grohtml
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:50:14 +0200 (CEST)

> I was speaking about www.tmac macros producing `\:' automatically,
> not on the html device.  This should be possible with heavy usage of
> .substring .

Do you want to give it a try?  Perhaps we could extend the string
manipulation requests...

> > PS: An interesting alternative would be to do almost the opposite:
> >     inserting soft hyphen characters at all possible hyphenation
> >     points.  Of course, this would increase the size of HTML files
> >     a lot, but it could improve the appearance of the text.  Are
> >     there browsers available which honour shc?
> 
> Fine, if this is done automatically by groff without having to tune
> the roff documents.

Not yet, but it troff could be modified without great difficulties to
do that, I think.


    Werner

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