Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 08:43:04 +0800 From: Fbsd1 <fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> To: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to force end-of-line in man page source Message-ID: <4BEB4B18.2090000@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20100511203802.GA24272@saltmine.radix.net> References: <4BE8ECD4.8060307@a1poweruser.com> <20100511203802.GA24272@saltmine.radix.net>
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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.
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