Some papers are indeed doing this sporadically. It looks like it is up to the individual writer. The samples I see are barely readable, incorrect and unprofessional any way you look at them, and seem to derive from the use of inappropriate software.
Best Regards, Jonathan Rosenne -----Original Message----- From: Simon Montagu [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 9:02 AM To: Jonathan Rosenne; [email protected] Subject: Re: Bidi reordering of soft hyphen On 04/02/2014 02:12 AM, Jonathan Rosenne wrote: > The use of soft hyphen is a cultural matter. In Hebrew, Classic and > Israeli, soft hyphens are not used. I don't understand this statement. Classic, yes, but in Israeli Hebrew soft hyphens typically _are_ used in texts printed in relatively narrow justified columns -- common examples are newspapers and encyclopædias. (Or are we using terms differently? In any case, with respect to the original question about where to position a soft hyphen in a line break in the middle of a word in an opposite-direction run in bidirectional text, I believe that it doesn't make a difference whether we are referring to U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN, a hyphen automatically inserted by typesetting software, or a hyphen inserted manually). _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
