- From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 02:18:52 -0500
- To: Lea Verou <lea@w3.org>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
2013/3/8 Lea Verou <lea@w3.org>: > Somebody suggested on twitter [1] that it might be useful for hyphens (added > by hyphenation) to hang as well, perhaps through hanging-punctuation [2]. > Thoughts? The hanging-punctuation property seems to be framed in such a way that feels like it’s mostly relevant to CJK (and particularly Japanese) typography. That might have been why the hyphen was not included in the list? (Personally speaking when I see hanging hyphens and dashes in a run of CJK text the result just looks wrong to me.) In Western typography, the hyphen (and all sorts of dashes) certainly can hang, and they do hang in, for example, Illustrator and InDesign. So I guess my personal question would be: if the hyphen is to be allowed to hang (which is perfectly reasonable and perhaps even called for, unless hanging-punctuation is to be regarded as a CJK-only property, which doesn’t really seem to be case given the kind of commas that can hang), should there be some finer-grain control on when certain punctuation marks are allowed/disallowed to hang? -- cheers, -ambrose <http://gniw.ca>
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