Re: hyphenation of programming language identifiers

[KHMan]

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> address@hidden (Jeff Kingston) writes:
>
> > Are there problems with allowing hyphenation of programming
> > language identifiers at all?  What if the *default* behaviour
> > is altered to allow hyphenation, with an option to turn it off?
>
> It may be the case that some documents rely on the fact that programs
> are not hyphenated and get automatically scaled down if they don't fit
> on the page (although this could arguably be considered bad practice, as
> the document may end up containing code fragments that all have a
> different scale factor).

The other kind of failure I recall is of code lines that run past 
page boundaries, sometimes seen in TeX output.

> Besides, some languages, like Python, are indentation-sensitive.  Thus,
> a hyphenated Python program is not valid Python code (which may be OK if
> the reader is warned about hyphenation).

I remember at least one PDF document which was a book I believe 
that added a special line continuation character and broke lines 
at whitespace. Breaking lines at whitespace sounds better, but 
special line continuation markers sounds like a pretty specific 
solution that might not be everyone's cup of tea.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia