[Python-modules-team] Bug#944330: debian-policy: Hyphenation damage on plain text output

[Dmitry Shachnev]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 11:11:37AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Sphinx uses Python's standard textwrap module to wrap text output.  That
> class has an option, break_on_hyphens, which defaults to True but can be
> set to False.  For Policy, we want to set it to False, but Sphinx doesn't
> expose a configuration setting that allows this.
>
> I'm reassigning this bug to Sphinx, but it's really an upstream feature
> request.

Upstream said they are not interested in such an option, but they may change
their opinion if they see any ugly examples:

https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/6867

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Dmitry Shachnev
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