X-Git-Url: https://git.stg.codes/stg.git/blobdiff_plain/bfec9cc7ab5a396f7662090b208691ec59a69f1b..2f1753cc3e240fa497a87873ed19fe3f11e22331:/doc/help/xslt/params/man.hyphenate.xml diff --git a/doc/help/xslt/params/man.hyphenate.xml b/doc/help/xslt/params/man.hyphenate.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 9198bbbb..00000000 --- a/doc/help/xslt/params/man.hyphenate.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,59 +0,0 @@ - - -man.hyphenate -boolean - - -man.hyphenate -Enable hyphenation? - - - - -0 - - -Description - -If non-zero, hyphenation is enabled. - - -The default value for this parameter is zero because groff is -not particularly smart about how it does hyphenation; it can end up -hyphenating a lot of things that you don't want hyphenated. To -mitigate that, the default behavior of the stylesheets is to suppress -hyphenation of computer inlines, filenames, and URLs. (You can -override the default behavior by setting non-zero values for the -man.hyphenate.urls, -man.hyphenate.filenames, and -man.hyphenate.computer.inlines parameters.) But -the best way is still to just globally disable hyphenation, as the -stylesheets do by default. - -The only good reason to enabled hyphenation is if you have also -enabled justification (which is disabled by default). The reason is -that justified text can look very bad unless you also hyphenate it; to -quote the Hypenation node from the groff info page: - -
- Since the odds are not great for finding a set of - words, for every output line, which fit nicely on a line without - inserting excessive amounts of space between words, 'gtroff' - hyphenates words so that it can justify lines without inserting too - much space between words. -
- -So, if you set a non-zero value for the -man.justify parameter (to enable -justification), then you should probably also set a non-zero value for -man.hyphenate (to enable hyphenation).
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