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+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+          xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+          xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment"
+          xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+          version="5.0" xml:id="man.hyphenate">
+<refmeta>
+<refentrytitle>man.hyphenate</refentrytitle>
+<refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">boolean</refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+<refnamediv>
+<refname>man.hyphenate</refname>
+<refpurpose>Enable hyphenation?</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+<src:fragment xml:id="man.hyphenate.frag">
+<xsl:param name="man.hyphenate">0</xsl:param></src:fragment>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+<refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>
+
+<para>If non-zero, hyphenation is enabled.</para>
+
+<note>
+<para>The default value for this parameter is zero because groff is
+not particularly smart about how it does hyphenation; it can end up
+hyphenating a lot of things that you don't want hyphenated. To
+mitigate that, the default behavior of the stylesheets is to suppress
+hyphenation of computer inlines, filenames, and URLs. (You can
+override the default behavior by setting non-zero values for the
+<parameter>man.hyphenate.urls</parameter>,
+<parameter>man.hyphenate.filenames</parameter>, and
+<parameter>man.hyphenate.computer.inlines</parameter> parameters.) But
+the best way is still to just globally disable hyphenation, as the
+stylesheets do by default.</para>
+
+<para>The only good reason to enabled hyphenation is if you have also
+enabled justification (which is disabled by default). The reason is
+that justified text can look very bad unless you also hyphenate it; to
+quote the <quote>Hypenation</quote> node from the groff info page:
+
+<blockquote>
+  <para><emphasis>Since the odds are not great for finding a set of
+  words, for every output line, which fit nicely on a line without
+  inserting excessive amounts of space between words, 'gtroff'
+  hyphenates words so that it can justify lines without inserting too
+  much space between words.</emphasis></para>
+</blockquote>
+
+So, if you set a non-zero value for the
+<parameter>man.justify</parameter> parameter (to enable
+justification), then you should probably also set a non-zero value for
+<parameter>man.hyphenate</parameter> (to enable hyphenation).</para>
+</note>
+
+
+</refsection>
+</refentry>