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

[Russ Allbery]

Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at debian.org> writes:
> 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

Thanks, I replied to that issue.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>