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Re: lynx-dev Special Hyphen


From: Al Gilman
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Special Hyphen
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:11:27 -0400 (EDT)

to follow up on what Jason F. McBrayer said:
> 
> I don't think it's supposed to line up.  "­" is a soft hyphen;
> it's only supposed to be a hint as to whether a word can be hyphenated
> at a particular point.  If a program needs to hyphenate a word, it
> should do it at the "­" and print a regular hyphen there. 
> 

Let's see if I understand you.  It sounds as though, if Lynx is not
going to try to break words at syllable boundaries, that it can
safely render "­" as "" without regard for the context?

Al

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