- From: Alex Danilo <alex@abbra.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:12:45 +1100
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: Christian Stockwell <cstock@microsoft.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Hi, --Original Message--: >On 03/15/2011 07:43 PM, Christian Stockwell wrote: >> Some feedback after reading through the hyphenation discussion in >> the latest F2F transcript: >> >> <snip/> > >> 4. For "hyphens: auto" we should remove the clause specifying >> that explicit hyphenation should take priority over automatic >> resources. This clause is problematic for a few reasons, not >> least of which is that "takes priority" is going to be difficult >> to define well, or-if defined simply-will likely be ignored if >> UAs implement the Optimal Paragraph algorithm. Let the UA decide >> which hyphenation opportunity to use... > >I very strongly disagree with this here. The purpose of the soft >hyphen is to allow the author control over the exact hyphenation >of this instance of this word. +1. Soft hyphens inserted by the author should _always_ take priority over automated hyphenation algorithms which in general are of lower quality than the typographers eye and intent. Alex >~fantasai > >
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