how to force end-of-line in man page source
Fbsd1
fbsd1 at a1poweruser.com
Thu May 13 00:43:10 UTC 2010
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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