> Do cases of mishandled hyphenation rise to the level of a bug that
> should be reported in the bug tracker?
Not for groff.
> I've run across a couple such words. One example is "backpedaling"
> (or its UK spelling, "backpedalling"), illustrated in this small
> groff file:
>
> .ll 1.55i
> Last year we went backpacking across Europe.
> .br
> Last year we went backpedaling across Europe.
>
> Both words have a syllable break after "back-," but groff utilizes
> only the one in "backpacking." This happens on a groff built from
> the latest sources in git.
groff uses the hyphenation patterns from TeX. You get the same
problem with current TeXLive, using the additional set of US
hyphenation exceptions:
\input ushyphex
\showhyphens{backpedaling}
\showhyphens{backpacking}
\bye
-> backpedal-ing
back-pack-ing
I've CCed Barbara Beeton <[email protected]>; she is maintaining the
hyphenation exceptions list. Please send your other findings to her
also.
Werner
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