Re: lynx-dev Special Hyphen

[Philip Webb]

980818 Michael Warner wrote: 
> 980818 Jason F. McBrayer <address@hidden> wrote:
>> <address@hidden> writes:
>>> The "special hyphen" character does not format correctly
>>> The columns don't line up.
>> I don't think it's supposed to line up.  "&shy;" 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 "&shy;" and print a regular hyphen there. 
> The question I have, that I haven't checked out, is:
> "What is the &shy; behavior in a <PRE> block
> (such as the referenced page of Subir's)"?
> The &shy; should be non-functional in <PRE> in any case, right?
 
it (correctly) doesn't line up in Subir's <PRE> block.

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