Path: csiph.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Dave Newsgroups: gnu.groff.bug Subject: [bug #57448] groff will not break a line at a hard hyphen following some letter combinations Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 02:41:00 -0400 (EDT) Lines: 25 Approved: bug-groff@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20191219-071637.sv93119.83466@savannah.gnu.org> <20191219-231340.sv93188.76941@savannah.gnu.org> <20191219-220856.sv93119.28405@savannah.gnu.org> <20191220-043627.sv93119.51933@savannah.gnu.org> <20191222-233745.sv93188.73578@savannah.gnu.org> <20191223-065039.sv93119.93277@savannah.gnu.org> <20200514-014059.sv93119.99040@savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1589438462 18678 209.51.188.17 (14 May 2020 06:41:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu To: Dave , Bjarni Ingi Gislason , bug-groff@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-groff@gnu.org X-PHP-Originating-Script: 1001:sendmail.php X-Savane-Server: savannah.gnu.org:443 [2001:470:142::72] X-Savane-Project: groff X-Savane-Tracker: bugs X-Savane-Item-ID: 57448 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 X-Apparently-From: 2605:a601:ab42:5b00:d79a:70a3:b6a4:34bf (Savane authenticated user barx) In-Reply-To: <20191223-065039.sv93119.93277@savannah.gnu.org> X-BeenThere: bug-groff@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for the GNU version of nroff, troff et al" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <20200514-014059.sv93119.99040@savannah.gnu.org> X-Mailman-Original-References: <20191219-071637.sv93119.83466@savannah.gnu.org> <20191219-231340.sv93188.76941@savannah.gnu.org> <20191219-220856.sv93119.28405@savannah.gnu.org> <20191220-043627.sv93119.51933@savannah.gnu.org> <20191222-233745.sv93188.73578@savannah.gnu.org> <20191223-065039.sv93119.93277@savannah.gnu.org> Xref: csiph.com gnu.groff.bug:1857 Follow-up Comment #6, bug #57448 (project groff): And it turns out that kern pairs need not even exist between every letter of a hyphen-containing phrase to trigger the bug. For instance, the string "major-Y-axis" has only two kern pairs in the Times typeface: between "r" and "-", and "Y" and "-". Yet groff will break at neither hyphen: seq -w 0 99 | xargs -I FRACTION printf '.br\n.ll 3.FRACTIONc\nIt can show the major-Y-axis line\n' | groff -a | fgrep It | uniq The problem disappears if the Y is turned into an X. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/