Hi Valery, At 2026-09-21T18:00:58+0300, Valery Ushakov wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2026 at 23:15:48 -0400, Larry Kollar wrote: > > G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Permit me to unpack the foregoing. > > > > > >> There is no place for hyphenation in a technical document. > > > > > > I wonder how many technical documents you consulted before > > > venturing this proclamation. Here are some technical documents > > > that employ hyphenation. I trust that you don't find them > > > obscure. […] > > > > To be honest, I find Ingo’s “don’t hyphenate manpages” to be, in his > > own words, overly broad. > > manpages are not meant to be primarily just read from paper. manpages > must be searchable by a proverbial "desperate sysadmin at 3am". E.g., > today I couldn't immediately find an instance of "overflow" in a man > page b/c it was hyphenated. Hyphenation is destructive in this > circumstances.
echo '.if n .nr HY 0' >> /etc/groff/man.local echo '.if n .nr HY 0' >> /etc/groff/mdoc.local Regards, Branden
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