> -----Original Message----- > From: Nico Huber [mailto:nic...@gmx.de] > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 11:33 > To: dennis.hamil...@acm.org; Discussion related to Markdown. <markdown- > disc...@six.pairlist.net> > Subject: Re: Proposal for (source-side) hyphenation support > > On 31.03.2017 19:27, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Markdown-Discuss [mailto:markdown-discuss- > >> boun...@six.pairlist.net] On Behalf Of Nico Huber > >> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 09:58 > >> To: markdown-discuss <markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.net> > >> Subject: Proposal for (source-side) hyphenation support > >> > >> Hi there, > >> > >> don't know if this has been discussed before, or if I just overlooked > >> how to do it: I'm missing support for hyphenation in Markdown files. > >> Looking at always ragged HTML pages is already hard enough, so I > can't > >> bear anything but halfway justified text in my editor and manually > hy- > >> phenate words. [ ... ] > > > > I think we need to think about how this is conveyed into HTML, and > what > > browsers might do, since that is where the actual layout width is > > determined. It should be assumed that reflow can happen at any time > and > > the soft-hyphen might be usable along with whatever other automatic > > hyphenation the browser uses. > > > > A direct method would be to insert soft-hyphen (SHY) codes, code-point > > 0xAD in Unicode and in Latin-1. > > > > I recommend working backward from that to find a Markdown escape that > > serves this purpose. > > Sorry, I should have made it more clear. I'm not talking about any > effective change of the output. My purpose is to enhance readability > of the Markdown source. Any "escape" that differs visually much from > the usual hyphen before a line break wouldn't serve "this purpose". [orcmid]
I don't understand the use-case you describe. What do you expect the (canonical) HTML to be and how is it determined that a hard hyphen is involved? Or are you breaking the hyphenation in the markdown but don't want the break in the result; you want to glue the word back together (and reflow of the output makes a break or not)? Is this more like you want to insert a hard break in the Markdown text, but it is invisible in the output, sort of like the C-Language(s) "\" line-ending? > > The ability to add hyphenation hints in the output might be useful, > too. But is off topic for me. > > Nico _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
