how to force end-of-line in man page source

Thomas Dickey dickey at radix.net
Tue May 11 20:56:44 UTC 2010


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

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Thomas E. Dickey
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