[Edbrowse-dev] soft hyphen

[Edbrowse-dev] soft hyphen

[Karl Dahlke]

I guess I never realized the semantics of the soft hyphen,
and thus I do not render it in any proper way.
I just turn it into hyphen, rather than what is described in
wikipedia soft hyphen.
All these years and I never really noticed until I ran into a web
page that makes grotesque yet correct use of it

http://www.WheelOfFortuneSolutions.com/about.html

Maybe I should just turn the soft hyphen into nothing,
it would be better than what I am doing now,
at least for the short term.
Long term the breakLine() routine might want to be smarter about this symbol.

Karl Dahlke

Re: [Edbrowse-dev] soft hyphen

[chris]

I wonder if it would be worth implementing the semantics described
in Wikipedia.  Here they are, just for reference:

<quote>
The soft hyphen tells the user agent where a line break can occur.
Those browsers that interpret soft hyphens must observe the following semantics.
If a line is broken at a soft hyphen,
a hyphen character must be displayed at the end of the first line.
If a line is not broken at a soft hyphen,
the user agent must not display a hyphen character.
</quote>

The page you linked in your original post would look great with the soft
hyphens removed.  Maybe just remove them for now, and consider using
them as part of word-wrapping at a later date?

-- Chris