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| author | Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@nexenta.com> | 2017-05-28 20:36:38 +0300 |
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| committer | Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net> | 2017-06-21 16:46:29 -0400 |
| commit | a40ea1a7d80eee1b409e9dcc2e48c730988147ea (patch) | |
| tree | 83ffaf56553e3c7cda31f650a37a1e0c7f2b5b90 /usr/src/man/man5/mandoc_char.5 | |
| parent | 299c9e70a71f87365f8f88fdea2cccbd0d5b8db6 (diff) | |
| download | illumos-joyent-a40ea1a7d80eee1b409e9dcc2e48c730988147ea.tar.gz | |
8297 update mdocml to 1.14.1
Reviewed by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr/src/man/man5/mandoc_char.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr/src/man/man5/mandoc_char.5 | 28 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr/src/man/man5/mandoc_char.5 b/usr/src/man/man5/mandoc_char.5 index cf102bb840..16b1f4b94f 100644 --- a/usr/src/man/man5/mandoc_char.5 +++ b/usr/src/man/man5/mandoc_char.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.63 2015/09/02 15:38:35 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.64 2017/02/05 21:41:21 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org> .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 2 2015 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 5 2017 $ .Dt MANDOC_CHAR 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -62,6 +62,30 @@ blue-eyed lorry-driver .Ed .Pp +If a word on a text input line contains a hyphen, a formatter may decide +to insert an output line break after the hyphen if that helps filling +the current output line, but the whole word would overflow the line. +If it is important that the word is not broken across lines in this +way, a zero-width space +.Pq Sq \e& +can be inserted before or after the hyphen. +While +.Xr mandoc 1 +never breaks the output line after hyphens adjacent to a zero-width +space, after any of the other dash- or hyphen-like characters +represented by escape sequences, or after hyphens inside words in +macro arguments, other software may not respect these rules and may +break the line even in such cases. +.Pp +Some +.Xr mandoc_roff 5 +implementations contains dictionaries allowing to break the line +at syllable boundaries even inside words that contain no hyphens. +Such automatic hyphenation is not supported by +.Xr mandoc 1 , +which only breaks the line at whitespace, and inside words only +after existing hyphens. +.Pp The mathematical minus sign is used for negative numbers or subtraction. It should be written as .Sq \e(mi : |