On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com> wrote: > > > While hyphenation is often necessary for nice justification, it isn’t the > only thing that can contribute. There are also features that browsers > don’t support yet like min/max word spacing and multi-line justification > algorithms. Using nice-justification for just the list above would be > premature, I think. > Prince has a reasonable, minimal set of hyphenation properties: 1. prince-hyphenate-patterns (none | url(patterns-url) to link to a hyphenation dictionary, which would be specific to a language 2. prince-hyphenate-lines (no-limit | integer) to restrict how many consecutive lines may end with a hyphen 3. prince-hyphenate-before (integer), which describes the minimum number characters before the hyphen 4. prince-hyphenate-after (integer), which describes the minimum number of characters after the hyphen. The sum determines the shortest word that could be hyphenated I'd be happy to see min/opt/max word- and letter-spacing, too. And if you can convince Adobe to open-source InDesign's justification engine and rewrite it for the browsers, that would be great ;) Dave
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