Man page stylesheet and groff hyphenation character

Howdy:

I've been using the man page stylesheet and noticed that function 
names, man page references, environment variables, etc. were being 
hyphenated. I modified the stylesheets at a few places to output the 
groff hypenation character (\%) before the text; this prevents the 
first word of the text from being hyphenated.

Is there a better way of accomplishing this? Is it worthwhile to apply 
these changes to the source tree?

Cheers,
Ryan