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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc_char.7,v
retrieving revision 1.70
retrieving revision 1.71
diff -u -p -r1.70 -r1.71
--- mandoc/mandoc_char.7	2018/08/08 14:03:27	1.70
+++ mandoc/mandoc_char.7	2018/08/08 14:16:08	1.71
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.70 2018/08/08 14:03:27 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.71 2018/08/08 14:16:08 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
@@ -76,30 +76,6 @@ 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 en-dash is used to separate the two elements of a range,
 or can be used the same way as an em-dash.
 It should be written as
@@ -135,6 +111,30 @@ But currently, no practically relevant manual page for
 requires that subtlety, so in manual pages just write plain
 .Sq -
 to represent hyphen, minus, and hyphen-minus.
+.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.
 .Ss Spaces
 To separate words in normal text, for indenting and alignment
 in literal context, and when none of the following special cases apply,