Sean M Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But for applicable formats, I think it's reasonable to say that S<...> > means not only "don't use any spaces in here as potential > line-breakpoints", but also "don't hyphenate anywhere in here". > Thoughts?
I agree with that proposal. > Is there a tidier way in other formats where hyphenation could occur, > like *roff? pod2man turns off hyphenation globally, always. It was making far too many mistakes, hyphenating things in the middle of code blocks and the like, and I've never found the kind of extremely aggressive hyphenation that most *roff implementations do to really be much improvement in the readability of the text. Knuth has quite a bit to say on the subject of hyphenating properly in _Digital Typography_, and very few programs in my experience get it right enough to be worth using at all. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
