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commit 9e78128da54bea2c2283c6b248fa6877791f08fe
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Apr 12 06:09:19 2026 -0500
[doc,man]: Reform terminology.
A "hyphenation point" is where hyphenation _may_ occur; a "hyphenation
break" is where it _does_ occur.
---
doc/groff.texi.in | 6 +++---
man/groff.7.man | 2 +-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi.in b/doc/groff.texi.in
index 3a03eba44..974233cc6 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi.in
+++ b/doc/groff.texi.in
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ adjustment of inter-word space size to justify text, and of
inter-sentence space size to suit local style conventions
@item
-automatic and manual determination of hyphenation break points
+automatic and manual determination of hyphenation points
@item
pagination
@@ -20834,7 +20834,7 @@ of the names documented in the
@cite{groff_char@r{(7)}} man page.
Further,
escape sequences that produce horizontal or vertical motions,
-hyphenation breaks,
+hyphenation points,
or that are dummy characters
may appear in strings or be converted to nodes,
particularly in diversions.@footnote{@xref{GNU @command{troff}
@@ -21048,7 +21048,7 @@ a special character token for
(representing
@samp{u}
with an umlaut),
-a token encoding a hyphenation break point,@footnote{GNU
+a token encoding a hyphenation point,@footnote{GNU
@command{troff}
encodes tokens that aren't Unicode Basic Latin characters
as code points in the C0 and C1 control ranges;
diff --git a/man/groff.7.man b/man/groff.7.man
index 11993e450..0a367f392 100644
--- a/man/groff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff.7.man
@@ -6516,7 +6516,7 @@ documented in
.
Further,
escape sequences that produce horizontal or vertical motions,
-hyphenation breaks,
+hyphenation points,
or that are dummy characters may appear in strings
or be converted to nodes,
particularly in diversions. \" (@pxref{GNU troff Internals})
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