- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:45:42 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
> From: Jerry Dunietz [SMTP:jerryd@microsoft.com] > > > [JD:] Can you share references to specific sections of authoritative > specifications? I'm not familiar with these particular rules, and I may > not be alone.... [DJW:] http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/struct/text.html#h-9.3.3 paragraph 1. In HTML, there are two types of hyphens: the plain hyphen and the soft hyphen. The plain hyphen should be interpreted by a user agent as just another character. The soft hyphen tells the user agent where a line break can occur. http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/struct/text.html#h-9.3.5 about 4 paragraphs from the end. By convention, visual HTML user agents wrap text lines to fit within the available margins. Wrapping algorithms depend on the script being formatted. In Western scripts, for example, text should only be wrapped at white space. Early user agents incorrectly wrapped lines just after the start tag or just before the end tag of an element, which resulted in dangling punctuation. For example, consider this sentence: -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS. >
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