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diff --git a/doc/groff.html.node/Hyphenation.html b/doc/groff.html.node/Hyphenation.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec22419 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/groff.html.node/Hyphenation.html @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 7.0.3, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> +<!-- This manual documents GNU troff version 1.23.0. + +Copyright © 1994-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A +copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free +Documentation License". --> +<title>Hyphenation (The GNU Troff Manual)</title> + +<meta name="description" content="Hyphenation (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="keywords" content="Hyphenation (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="resource-type" content="document"> +<meta name="distribution" content="global"> +<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> +<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> + +<link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> +<link href="Request-Index.html" rel="index" title="Request Index"> +<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> +<link href="Text.html" rel="up" title="Text"> +<link href="Breaking.html" rel="next" title="Breaking"> +<link href="Sentences.html" rel="prev" title="Sentences"> + + +</head> + +<body lang="en"> +<div class="subsection-level-extent" id="Hyphenation"> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Next: <a href="Breaking.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Breaking</a>, Previous: <a href="Sentences.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Sentences</a>, Up: <a href="Text.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Text</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Request-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> +<hr> +<h4 class="subsection" id="Hyphenation-1">5.1.3 Hyphenation</h4> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-hyphenation"></a> + +<p>When an output line is nearly full, it is uncommon for the next word +collected from the input to exactly fill it—typically, there is room +left over only for part of the next word. The process of splitting a +word so that it appears partially on one line (with a hyphen to indicate +to the reader that the word has been broken) with its remainder on the +next is <em class="dfn">hyphenation</em>. Hyphenation points can be manually +specified; GNU <code class="code">troff</code> also uses a hyphenation algorithm and +language-specific pattern files (based on those used in TeX) to +decide which words can be hyphenated and where. +</p> +<p>Hyphenation does not always occur even when the hyphenation rules for a +word allow it; it can be disabled, and when not disabled there are +several parameters that can prevent it in certain circumstances. +See <a class="xref" href="Manipulating-Hyphenation.html">Manipulating Hyphenation</a>. +</p> + +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |