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8 <refentrytitle>man.hyphenate.filenames</refentrytitle>
9 <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">boolean</refmiscinfo>
12 <refname>man.hyphenate.filenames</refname>
13 <refpurpose>Hyphenate filenames?</refpurpose>
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18 <xsl:param name="man.hyphenate.filenames">0</xsl:param></src:fragment>
21 <refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>
23 <para>If zero (the default), hyphenation is suppressed for
24 <tag>filename</tag> output.</para>
27 <para>If hyphenation is already turned off globally (that is, if
28 <parameter>man.hyphenate</parameter> is zero, setting
29 <parameter>man.hyphenate.filenames</parameter> is not
33 <para>If <parameter>man.hyphenate.filenames</parameter> is non-zero,
34 filenames will not be treated specially and are subject to hyphenation
35 just like other words.</para>
38 <para>If you are thinking about setting a non-zero value for
39 <parameter>man.hyphenate.filenames</parameter> in order to make long
40 filenames/pathnames break across lines, you'd probably be better off
41 experimenting with setting the
42 <parameter>man.break.after.slash</parameter> parameter first. That
43 will cause long pathnames to be broken after slashes.</para>