From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 13 00:43:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DDF106566C for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 00:43:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd1@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mail-03.name-services.com (mail-03.name-services.com [69.64.155.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC6038FC15 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 00:43:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.10.3] ([202.69.173.106]) by mail-03.name-services.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 12 May 2010 17:43:09 -0700 Message-ID: <4BEB4B18.2090000@a1poweruser.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 08:43:04 +0800 From: Fbsd1 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Dickey References: <4BE8ECD4.8060307@a1poweruser.com> <20100511203802.GA24272@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20100511203802.GA24272@saltmine.radix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 May 2010 00:43:10.0024 (UTC) FILETIME=[42BB4C80:01CAF235] X-Sender: fbsd1@a1poweruser.com Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: how to force end-of-line in man page source X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 00:43:10 -0000 Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:36:20PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: >> I don't like the way some lines in the man page have the last word in >> the sentence broken in 2 and hyphenated. Is there some escape code I can >> put at the end of the line in the source code to suppress this? > > You can generally override the hyphenation mode with > > .hy 0 > Thank You very much. That works. But it is only in effect for one section header .Sh command. I added the .hy 0 (0 is zero) command after each .Sh command in the man page and it looks so much better now.