On Tue Dec 17, 2024 at 7:48 PM CET, onf wrote: > > But groff also breaks it just fine for me. > > > > $ hyphen sequestration > > se‐ques‐tra‐tion > > > > $ cat ~/bin/hyphen > > [...] > > However, I have a file where hyphentation is setup like this: > .mso en.tmac > .de HY > . hy 4 > .. > > (the macro HY is used after .nh to re-enable hyphenation.) > > ...and the word "sequestration" simply does not hyphenate. > But when I put: > .hw se-ques-tra-tion > after the above requests at the top of the document, it does. > > I have no idea what might cause this behavior. Running groff with > -ww does not reveal anything hyphenation-related.
Ugh. The hyphenation settings were being overriden by another macro which was being triggerred after the above. Thanks for the assistance, and sorry for bothering you. ~ onf