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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc_char.7,v
retrieving revision 1.63
retrieving revision 1.65
diff -u -p -r1.63 -r1.65
--- mandoc/mandoc_char.7	2015/09/02 15:38:35	1.63
+++ mandoc/mandoc_char.7	2017/05/17 23:39:31	1.65
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.63 2015/09/02 15:38:35 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.65 2017/05/17 23:39:31 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 2 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 17 2017 $
 .Dt MANDOC_CHAR 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -62,6 +62,30 @@ blue-eyed
 lorry-driver
 .Ed
 .Pp
+If a word on a text input line contains a hyphen, a formatter may decide
+to insert an output line break after the hyphen if that helps filling
+the current output line, but the whole word would overflow the line.
+If it is important that the word is not broken across lines in this
+way, a zero-width space
+.Pq Sq \e&
+can be inserted before or after the hyphen.
+While
+.Xr mandoc 1
+never breaks the output line after hyphens adjacent to a zero-width
+space, after any of the other dash- or hyphen-like characters
+represented by escape sequences, or after hyphens inside words in
+macro arguments, other software may not respect these rules and may
+break the line even in such cases.
+.Pp
+Some
+.Xr roff 7
+implementations contains dictionaries allowing to break the line
+at syllable boundaries even inside words that contain no hyphens.
+Such automatic hyphenation is not supported by
+.Xr mandoc 1 ,
+which only breaks the line at whitespace, and inside words only
+after existing hyphens.
+.Pp
 The mathematical minus sign is used for negative numbers or subtraction.
 It should be written as
 .Sq \e(mi :
@@ -724,9 +748,7 @@ the
 differently between mandoc and groff.
 .It
 In
-.Fl T Ns Cm html
-and
-.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml ,
+.Fl T Ns Cm html ,
 the \e(\(ti=, \e(nb, and \e(nc special characters render differently
 between mandoc and groff.
 .It