According to Matthew Nuzum:
> According to Greg Lepore:
> > Good point but for Mich<sup>l</sup> I would add entries in the
> > synonyms database for Mich Michael and Michl since they are all the same
> > word. For that example, there's no reason to want to search for each entry
> > individually. I would vote for treating the <sup> and <sub> as hyphens but
> > I can see where this might cause trouble (mathematical equations might be
> > one such case).
>
> I have a website for heart surgeons. They have all kinds of subscripts
> in the names of their medicines. People will often search for HDL3, HDL
> 3 and just HDL in hopes of finding what in HTML would be
> HDL<sub>3</sub>.
OK, this is another good reason to treat <sup> and <sub> the same way as
valid_punctuation characters, so that HDL<sub>3</sub> would be indexed as
hdl, 3 and hdl3.
> I've encouraged them to instead use HDL<span
> style="font-size:8pt">3</span> instead. It looks better because it
> doesn't increase the line spacing. They now have several of each
> throughout the site.
>
> I just tested a search and found that none of the above show up in the
> results. Only HDL3 shows up as a result for a search "hdl3".
> HDL<sub>3</sub> and HDL<span style="font-size:8pt">3</span> are
> excluded.
>
> I'm glad someone caught this. Can we have spans treated the same way?
> I often use <span> tags with stylesheet rules in place of some HTML
> equivs.
It's a pretty easy fix: just add "|span|/span" to the end of the string
passed to nobreaktags.Pattern("...") on line 85 of HTML.cc (in 3.1.6).
I had put font tags in the list for this very reason, but I didn't put in
span.
I'm really ignorant when it comes to CSS tags in HTML, but are span tags
just used for font and style changes which shouldn't trigger a word break,
or are there other uses of <span ...> which should cause word breaks?
In any case, it would probably make sense to have this list settable by
config attribute, to allow adapting to varying needs and evolving standards.
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Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766
Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930
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