Conference vaxuum::document_ft

129.0. "<HYPHENATE> users, be warned" by COOKIE::JOHNSTON () Thu Mar 19 1987 13:38

I don't know if you would call this a bug or not, but its behavior 
should be explained in the <hyphenate> tag description.

I had a table in which I had tried to use <KEEP> to suppress 
hyphenation.  Doctypes that normally right-justify tables would lose
that justification when <KEEP> forced a word to a new line.  I
tried to hack it with <LINE>; same problem.  

So then I tried it to hack it with <hyphenate>(thisword\).  This
resulted in thisword-. Next I tried <hyphenate>(thisword), with no
backslash.  The result: "thisword" wasn't printed out in *any* form! 
It was lost somewhere, somehow.  I did get the error message "fewer than 
2 arguments supplied".  But there was nothing to indicate that text 
would consequently be lost.

I tried this with GENERAL, SOFT.SPEC, MILSPEC, and MAN.REF.



Rose

    
    The syntax of <hyphenate> in the user's guide shows that two arguments
    are required. The tag translator's diagnostic handling is such that
    if a tag is invoked with too few or too many arguments, the tag
    is not processed. 
    
    I guess I want to try to figure out is happening with the
    right-justification when you use <keep>. What was the doctype?
    
    

GENERAL was the doctype.  I'll send you the file I used.



Rose