- From: Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 22:16:03 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-international@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
For German, it is not an acceptable fall back to insert spaces between
letters for a narrow column. A significant portion of readers will
understand this to be *emphasized* text. This is true, even though this
form of emphasis is based on usage in Fraktur and typewritten style. It's
common enough still to affect the reader's perception.
A./
At 07:05 PM 11/26/98 +0100, Bert Bos wrote:
>Help requested, please...
>
>We are looking for ways to give Web designers more control over
>hyphenation/line-breaking, with the help of properties in CSS. We need
>expert advice:
>
> - what do designers want to control?
> - what is the accepted terminology for that?
> - how do the rules differ per language?
> - what happens if the text is multi-lingual?
> - for each of the above, what are acceptable fallbacks? (window too
> narrow, word too long,...)
>
>
>
>
>If you rather react to a concrete proposal, here is a strawman:
>
> Property: hyphenation
> Value: none | avoid | normal | any
> Initial: normal
> Inherited: yes
> Applies to: all elements
> Percentages: N/A
>
>'None' disables hyphenation, 'any' allows breaks anywhere without
>regard for valid syllables, 'avoid' and 'normal' are two settings in
>between. ('Avoid', might, for example, disallow 3 hyphenated lines in
>a row.)
>
> Property: minimum-letters-before-break, minimum-letters-after-break
> Value: <number>
> Initial: 1
> Inherited: yes
> Applies to: all elements
> Percentages: N/A
>
>Limit the shortest syllables after/before which a word may be
>hyphenated. Typical values are 2 and 3.
>
> Property: line-breaking
> Value: normal | strict
> Initial: normal
> Inherited: yes
> Applies to: all elements
> Percentages: N/A
>
>Determines two levels of line breaking rules for ideographic scripts:
>'strict' keeps more pairs of characters together than 'normal'.
>
>
>
>
>References to earlier discussions:
>
> - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1997Apr/0085.html
>
> About soft hyphens and hyphenation dictionaries.
>
> - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1997Apr/0152.html
> - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1997Apr/0204.html
>
> Split off from the above thread, about hyphenation dictionaries
> and how to find or select them, and about mark-up for hyphenation
> exceptions. (Partly cross-posted between www-style and www-html.)
>
>
>
>
>
>Bert
>--
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> +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
>
>
>
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