[comp.text] troff hyphenation points

stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) (10/29/88)

Does anyone have a list of words that troff hyphenates incorrectly,
so that they can be added to its hyphenation exception list,
using the ".hw" request ??  I just discovered its incorrect
hyphenation of "transparent" (it produced "tran-sparent").

	Richard Stevens
	Health Systems International, New Haven, CT
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jaap+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jaap Akkerhuis) (11/01/88)

Note that the standard troff exceptions list has only room for 128 characters or
so. If you want to get around this you can follow the route a lot of people
took. You can build a preprocessor which insert the soft hyphenation character
(default \%) in every word of the input.

        jaap