On 6 elo, 21:50, Masayuki Nakano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Not breaking dates at all may be a good idea in itself, but I would > > consider it more important to allow at least some kind of breaks in > > long chemical names, such as '2-bromo-4,4-dichlorophenol'. It may be > > difficult to have it both ways. > > yeah, we cannot analyze whether the current word is date or chemical > word. We cannot save both cases... > > I have a question, should the chemical name be broken after '-'? If so, > we need to give up to save one case...
Well, I'm not an expert on chemistry, so I'll have to refer to Alan Wood who originally raised the issue with chemical names: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95067#c78 Apparently, at least in this case, the preferred break point would be after the second hyphen: 2-bromo- 4,4-dichlorophenol However, if the optimal break point was too difficult to define, any break would be better than no breaks at all. See also: http://www.alanwood.net/pesticides/abamectin.html Now, _that_ looks scary! (I suppose breaking at hyphens would help a little, but I have no idea how on earth one could define a preferred break point there.) -- Simo Kaupinmäki _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list dev-tech-layout@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
