- From: Greg Kostello <greg_kostello@digitalstyle.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 16:17:21 -0700
- To: Abigail <abigail@tungsten.gn.iaf.nl>, www-html@w3.org
At 11:01 AM 5/16/96 -0700, Abigail wrote: >Marcus E. Hennecke wrote: >++ >++ > To get high quality >++ > results this would have to be combined with hyphenation. >++ >++ Probably, but do you think HTML should be concerned with hyphenation? > >No, I don't think that is an HTML issue. Hyphenation should be a >browser issue. Some browser might (eventually) do hyphenation, >others won't. Of course, one would need the LANG attribute to >find out which hyphenation rule set to use. > Hyphenation is a stylistic as well as a language attribute. Typically, the person who designs the page determines whether or not hyphenation is appropriate for a particular structure. For example, the designer/author may want hyphenation for body text but she may find it inappropriate for headlines. Either way, hyphenation specifications are probably most appropriately defined in style sheets. For the truly detailed designer, she may choose to override typical hyphenations on a case by case basis. She may also want to choose how many lines in a row can be hyphenated and possible override hyphenation rules on a word by word basis. Furthermore, the designer may want to specify the maximum number of lines in a row that may be hyphenated. There is even more esoterica regarding hyphenation, dealing with how far from a column edge a hyphenation rule may be followed. Again, except for overriding individual instances of words, the most appropriate place for these specification is in the style sheet. >Abigail > >-- ><URL: http://www.edbo.com/abigail/> > > > ----------------------------------------------- Greg Kostello Digital Style Corporation e-mail -- kostello@digitalstyle.com, URL -- http://www.digitalstyle.com/ (619) 673-5051
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