- From: Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:17:50 +0100
- To: Mathias Nater <mathiasnater@gmail.com>, "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Cc: CSS WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
On 16 May 2011, at 15:52, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 16 May 2011, at 13:56, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>> I'm not too excited about implementing hyphenate-resource. It seems unlikely to me that a significant number of Web developers will bother developing and deploying their own hyphenation dictionaries.
>
> Right; especially given the lack of a clear standard for the format of such resources.
One further note: I do think it would be useful to implement a CSS mechanism to declare hyphenation *exceptions* for a language, in some simple form such as (for example),
@hyphenation {
lang: "en-US";
hyphens: "foo-bar foo-baz hy-phen-ate unhyphenatable";
}
The expectation would be that for any word listed in the @hyphenation rule(s) for the element's language, the hyphenation points indicated there (if any) would be used instead of any computed by the browser's "hyphens:auto" algorithms/resources.
This would allow authors to "fix" potential bad hyphenations, or provide additional hyphenation positions for unusual or ambiguous words where the browser's algorithm may be expected to be inadequate.
JK
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