[bug #57616] explicit hyphenation given in tmac/hyphenex.us violated

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #57616 (project groff):

Now meet the word "freeloaders."  hyphenex.us gives exactly one legal
breakpoint for the word:


$ grep '^  free' /usr/share/groff/current/tmac/hyphenex.us
  free-loader
  free-loaders


But groff gives it more than one:


$ printf ".hy 4\n.ll 1u\n%s\n" freeloaders | nroff 2> /dev/null | sed '/^$/d'
free-
load-
ers


While both of those are reasonable breakpoints, the explicit hyphenation in
hyphenex.us should disallow the second one.  (This is arguably a bug in the
hyphenex.us list, but that file originates in TeX, so its bugs must be
addressed there.)

So the "distraughtly" and "freeloaders" examples seem to invoke the same bug
-- in both cases, groff is adding a breakpoint that is not specified in
hyphenex.us -- but they also have some notable differences:

* For "freeloaders," groff breaks the word the same way with .hy values of 1,
4, 8, and 12.  As mentioned in comment #1, ".hy 1" and ".hy 4" give different
results for "distraughtly."
* Unlike "distraughtly," groff broke "freeloaders" the same way (for all
relevant .hy values) in 1.22.3, before the fix for bug #53196 (commit
4b299723) was applied.  So that fix did not introduce the general bug.

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