Valery Ushakov <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> There is no place for hyphenation in a technical document >> > [...] >> 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.
That’s one thing that “man.local” and “mdoc.local” are for—you can turn off hyphenation as needed. If the sysadmins need no hyphenation, and the other users are OK with it, everybody gets what they want. The `-rHY=0` option works for both -man and -mdoc as well. — Larry
