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> From: Liam Quin <liamquin@i...> > I don't have a copy of 8859 any more to check, but if the hyphen chracter > is to be treated as a soft hyphen, there's no way to type a hard hyphen... Yes. But why is this a surprise? A "hard hyphen" is a dash (copying whatever kind of dash has heen used by the application) followed by a hard return. > Perhaps, but to claim that this is more readable to humans than > supercali&softhy;fragalistic&softhy;expialladocious. > would be absurd. If you hadn't omitted the # in the 2nd reference, the > length would have been the same too. Using &hy; is even better. It might be more useful to include a hyphenation dictionary at the top of the document that can be fed into the typesetting application's hyphenation dictionary, rather than complicate the text with inplace softhyphens. You can then use any character you like to signal the soft hyphen, also, which may shorten things. <hyph-dict>over^blown, under^done </hyph-dict> > You can always do > <!--* hy: soft (discretionary) hyphenation point: *--> > <!Entity hy '​'> Yes. I think people use "­" for soft hyphen more than "&hy;". Rick Jelliffe xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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