- From: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:08:40 +1100
- To: Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org>
- CC: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>, Aryeh Gregor <AryehGregor@gmail.com>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>, "www-style@w3.org list" <www-style@w3.org>
Simon Montagu wrote: [snip] > That said, I don't agree with Aryeh either: in newspaper articles with > narrow justified columns hyphenation seems to be quite common. In > printed books it's much rarer, but it is used now and then. I have seen words split by hyphenation in old books written in English. Having viewed microfilms of 19th century newspapers shows that it was then a very common practice for splitting long words by hyphenation. Here is an example for 1877 in the first two columns. <http://pauldorpat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/dispatch-122477p1-web.jpg> Here is an example for 1939 which is mostly justified but with a little bit of hyphenation. See notes under picture (top right) showing the word Ambassa-dor. <http://orwelldiaries.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/express-24-8-39-page-1.jpg> -- Alan http://css-class.com/ Armies Cannot Stop An Idea Whose Time Has Come. - Victor Hugo
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