David Haslam wrote:
Which SWORD frontends (if any) correctly handle the soft hyphen (U+00AD) to
break up big words when necessary?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen#Hyphens_in_computing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen#Hyphens_in_computing
"When flowing text, a system may consider the soft hyphen to be a point at
which a word may be broken, and display a hyphen at the end of the broken
line; if the line is not broken at that point the hyphen is not displayed."
-- David
Latest KHTML seems to support it and I guess therefore WebKit does, too.
Konqueror just doesn't show the hyphen character when breaking a word to
two lines, but it may be a font problem as well.
See http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shytest.html.
BTW, I have thought about using soft hyphens. They would raise the
quality of the text display with narrow windows. E.g ancient Greek is
known for long (inflected) words and it shouldn't be very hard to add
hyphens programmatically.
--Eeli Kaikkonen
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