Follow-up Comment #4, bug #53196 (project groff):
> 3) The '.hy 8' works in 'nroff 1.22.3' (Debian 1.22.3-10)
> but not in version 1.22.3.real.441-d6ec5
Then this is a regression that needs to be addressed.
> 4) The values 4 and 8 are incompatible with the current
> method of hyphenation and
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #53196 (project groff):
1) I can't reproduce the example
2) The example is too complicated
3) The '.hy 8' works in 'nroff 1.22.3' (Debian 1.22.3-10) but not in
version 1.22.3.real.441-d6ec5
4) The values 4 and 8 are incompatible with the current method of
hyphenation
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #53196 (project groff):
> The file `hyphenex.us' is read with the `.hpfa'
> request, and all data read in with this request
> should indeed be subject to `.hy'.
Yes, this is the core bug. The other cases are side issues (perhaps I should
have separated them into their