- From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 16:48:41 -0700
- To: fdrake@CNRI.Reston.VA.US
- CC: Vincent.Quint@inria.fr, www-html@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
| The base dictionaries should be determined by the UA, but an author | should be able to provide supplemental dictionaries for unusual | words. I think Dave's proposal should work fine for that, without | having to modify the definition of HTML. A multi-lingual document | could simply add one such LINK element for each language for which | supplemental entries are needed. The hyphenation database format | could be specified using the TYPE attribute of the LINK element. Umm, you guys do realize that H&J (hyphenation and justification) isn't just a matter of dictionaries, don't you? There are very different H&J algorithms involved here as well. And difficult interactions with things like kerning... Not to mention the different approaches to word-breaking you get into in the ideographic scripts... Vincent is right, just indicate the language and let the UA do the best it can with it. Jon
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