- From: Lea Verou <lea@verou.me>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 19:22:35 +0200
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Btw, it should be mentioned that the need for this is strong enough that print formatters have been adding proprietary properties for this. For example, [1] is the Antennahouse version. On Jan 4, 2015, at 03:13, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote: > I'm not sure "insert nonbreaking spaces as necessary" is such a > terrible answer, honestly. TeX expects you to do just that, Since when is TeX a good example to follow?! Styling in TeX is a total mess. > so > more-sophisticated yet language-blind algorithms aren't going to help > by themselves. And it seems to me that even with language-sensitive > word-wrapping rules it would be very difficult to get an 100% > automated solution. Correct me if I’m mistaken but I believe that the aesthetic rule about last line length is true regardless of language, it’s just that separate languages have *additional* rules. ~Lea [1]: http://www.antennahouse.com/xslfo/axf5-extension.htm#axf.avoid-widow-words
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