Re: lynx-dev hyphenation

[David Combs]

Isn't this hypnenation stuff going to be a can of worms?

Seems like a whole lot of man-woman-hours, bugs, trying
to get it to work right in german, chinese, tibetan, ...
and even english.

I myself don't miss it.  Especially since this stuff comes
out, via lynx, only in straight ascii.

Then, there'll be the ambiguities of whether a "-" is a
hyphenation hyphen, or a minus sign, or some part of
a url or someone's home address.

Maybe for xml someday, where everything is "typed", so you
know what to hyphenate and what not.

Again, looks like a real can of worms, most not discovered
until the facility gets some actual use, after which 
discoveries people might say "you know, if I'd thought about
THESE things BEFORE implementing it, I'd never have expended all
that effort.  What a waste of time!"

David