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authorColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>2008-12-27 00:00:06 +0000
committerColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>2008-12-27 00:00:06 +0000
commit37d88e6325736d134d16a0129a0efb58a00ce2cc (patch)
treef95f2166cd8d57e89aded3c5f2cb38968769bdcb /man/man1
parent781ef4365df1a0d0ec933a0d36aa1c169d5bb1be (diff)
Add option to disable hyphenation (Debian bug #166701).
* src/man.c (options, parse_opt): Accept --no-hyphenation. Reset corresponding variable with -D. (disable_hyphenation): New function. (display): Append disable_hyphenation to the decompressor pipeline if --no-hyphenation is used. * man/man1/man.man1 (SYNOPSIS, Controlling formatted output): Document --no-hyphenation.
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diff --git a/man/man1/man.man1 b/man/man1/man.man1
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@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
.RB [\| \-7 \|]
.RB [\| \-E
.IR encoding \|]
+.RB [\| \-\-no\-hyphenation \|]
.RB [\| \-p
.IR string \|]
.RB [\| \-t \|]
@@ -925,6 +926,24 @@ device such as
as well as a true character encoding such as
.BR UTF\-8 .
.TP
+.B \-\-no\-hyphenation
+Normally,
+.B nroff
+will automatically hyphenate text at line breaks even in words that do not
+contain hyphens, if it is necessary to do so to lay out words on a line
+without excessive spacing.
+This option disables automatic hyphenation, so words will only be hyphenated
+if they already contain hyphens.
+
+If you are writing a manual page and simply want to prevent
+.B nroff
+from hyphenating a word at an inappropriate point, do not use this option,
+but consult the
+.B nroff
+documentation instead; for instance, you can put "\e%" inside a word to
+indicate that it may be hyphenated at that point, or put "\e%" at the start
+of a word to prevent it from being hyphenated.
+.TP
.BI \-p\ string ,\ \-\-preprocessor= string
Specify the sequence of preprocessors to run before
.B nroff