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Re: [Groff] explicit hyphen and numbers


From: Tadziu Hoffmann
Subject: Re: [Groff] explicit hyphen and numbers
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:09:25 +0200
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> If anyone can think of a context where a hyphen break between
> two numbers is OK, I'd be very interested to hear of it!
> And, if the exceptions are so special, then I'm sure that
> Werner's workround of "\:" should be acceptable, since people
> are not going to need it all that often.
> Meanwhile, I'm comforted that groff's behavious will prevent
> me from getting unwanted hyphen breaks.

Agree 100 percent.  I prefer the non-linebreaking behavior
of the current groff.  In fact, TeX *does* allow linebreaking
on hyphens between numbers, and I find it very irritating
that I have to explicitly prevent this by always mboxing
star catalogue numbers like He~2-131 (where ~ translates
to a nonbreaking space).






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