LatinReq: More sources but in an external document

LatinReq should list more sources for more of its recommendations, but
that background material should not be in the document itself.
Something like the 'Talk' tabs in Wikipedia, perhaps, where it's
possible to compare and contrast different sources to give a better idea
of why something is recommended.

I was recently looking at material on hyphenation, so I also looked at
hyphenation parameters [1] in LatinReq.  It lists several possible
parameters and some Prince-specific property names for some of them.
Except XSL-FO has essentially identical properties, and I'd also been
looking in 'Book Typography' by Mitchell and Wightman, which includes:

    Hyphenation is controlled in the paragraph style window by setting
    the shortest word to be divided, together with a lower limit of
    characters before and after the hyphen.  The number of hyphens
    allowed in successive lines is also set.  Too many hyphens in a row
    is irritating to the reader.

I would be unsurprised if troff had something similar. [2]  I would
expect it in TeX, too.

More background material would give a better grounding in the reasons
for the recommendations than at present.  A lot of background material
would swamp the actual recommendations, so it would be better to have
the background material outside of the LatinReq document.

Regards,


Tony.

[1] https://w3c.github.io/dpub-pagination/#parameters-for-hyphenation
[2] Expressed, no doubt, as a '.' followed by three-or-so characters,
     unlike those markup languages where terseness is of minimal
     importance.

Received on Thursday, 25 February 2021 17:09:39 UTC