- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:24:16 +0100
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: 'WWW International' <www-international@w3.org>
* Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >I also note that "appropriate" depends on, for instance, whether the >character is widely available and available in a suitable font, so >you don't get strange rendering due to font substitution. It does not >seem that there is a site that discusses this in great detail. My im- >pression also was that typographical conventions differed beyond the >choice of character, like in whether you put the character at the end >of the previous line or at the beginning of the next, but I could not >immediately find a reference so I might be misremembering or this may >no longer be true for in-use systems. Frederick Williams points out in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html that Microsoft seems to think breaking before the hyphen is the right thing to do on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15541761 where you'll get "shake\n-up" in Internet Explorer 8 and 9. Jukka K. Korpela made a demo page <http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/test/hyphen.html>. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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