Follow-up Comment #13, bug #67363 (group groff): Hmm, I had a couple more botches. Sorry.
I'll just "misquote" myself to render what I _should_ have written.
At 2025-08-06T04:19:23-0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Given the following constraints:
>
> * man pages support (automatic) hyphenation and adjustment;
> * preferences regarding hyphenation and adjustment differ;
> * the user's preferences should override the page author's;
> * man pages sometimes need to disable hyphenation and/or adjustment
> when formatting particular specimens of text, _irrespective_ of the
> page author's or user's preferences regarding hyphenation and
> adjustment differ; and
> * groff's recommendations to man page authors regarding configuration
> of the foregoing must be portable to other *roffs, and, if not
> honored by those programs, should at least not seriously degrade the
> formatted document.
>
> Put differently, the penultimate point means that a "semantic" or
> "structural" property of text can mandate suppression of hyphenation
> or adjustment (or both, as in displayed, unfilled code examples), such
> that _preferences_ do not have the opportunity to attach.
The foregoing (revised) quote is the crux of the issue, in my opinion.
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