From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: groff@gnu.org, linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: .B, .I disable hyphenation?
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 14:56:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebbf8dab-6fd0-2fb8-d29b-b7146f79398d@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi Branden,
Usually, when a manual page highlights a term, either in bold or
italics, it usually is a special identifier (macro, function, command
name or argument), for which hyphenation can hurt readability and even
worse, turn it into a different valid identifier.
What about disabling hyphenation for .B and .I?
Are there any inconveniences in doing so that I can't see?
Thanks,
Alex
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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
next reply other threads:[~2021-09-12 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-12 12:56 Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [this message]
2021-09-12 14:47 ` .B, .I disable hyphenation? Ingo Schwarze
2021-09-12 17:27 ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-09-12 20:09 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-09-13 0:16 ` G. Branden Robinson
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