Bug#944330: debian-policy: Hyphenation damage on plain text output
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> The rendering to plain text contain many technical terms, program names,
> email addresses, make rule names, etc., that have been cut at their
> hypen at the end of line. This makes copy&paste more difficult, and it
> reads confusingly.
> I started collecting a list of these, but there are quite many, so
> before wasting time, I guess it's best to canvas whether you agree this
> should be fixed. :)
It should be fixed, but I'm not sure that a list will help. I think we
just want to disable line breaks at hyphens in Sphinx. (I don't know
off-hand how to do that and haven't yet done any research.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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