OpenEuphoria

Re: hyphenator-Project &column.sort

• Posted by Antonio Alessi <a.admin at myway.it> Jul 23, 2005
• 487 views

Kat wrote:
> 
> On 22 Jul 2005, at 11:58, Antonio Alessi wrote:
> 
> > 
> > posted by: Antonio Alessi <a.admin at myway.it>
> > 
> > Hi there Al,
> > 
> > here I am again, after a very busy period. Well, is it too late to clarify?
> > If
> > you have no more time at the moment don't worry.
> > 
> > The sort problem is not a primary need: it deals with the idea of repeating
> > on
> > startup of the prog. the same Sort situation left on exit.
> > 
> > This is based on a premise: the hyphenator-Pro program is built for to
> > hyphenate
> > all the web pages of a site.
> 
> That is a lot of & shy ; !! How much bigger is the webpage after total 
> hyphenation?
> 
> Kat
> 
> 

Hi Kat,

There must be reasons for which this function has not been implemented until
now, but the Web pages layout in most cases is bad enough to require adjustment.

Your question may be set in two terms then:

1. too many &shy; make the document heavier on the net
2. too many &shy; for to edit the document

(1) For the first, if you watch certain pages automatically generated by various
softwares you find such a redundancy of instructions as to make this problem
disappear. The most typical example is the thoughtless repetition of &nbsp; to
overwhelm white spaces, which could be defined by simple <pre></pre> with normal
white spaces inside. Another is the useless use of long tags, which most times
could be replaced by shorter ones; see <DIV></DIV> instead of <BR> and so on, for
not to mention the indentation spaces left into the files.

(2) As to the second, this is just the reason of my job: make the whole process
"transparent", allowing to hyphenate the finished page as well as to normalize it
before any update, just with a click. In one optional editor's view the hyphenate
symbol &shy; is replaced by a mid-dot which let the text perfectly readable to
the webmaster.
The matter is complex enough to show that programming is not only the assemble
of appropriate intructions, but the choice of proper approaches to facilitate the
interactions between mind, fingers and eyes. Refer to the:

http://hyphenator.myway.it/newspaper_layout.htm#Our_efforts

for more details, and browse the examples to evaluate if all these &shy; are
worth.
Should you find any Language [but not only] mistake plase, let me know.

Finally, should this represent a true problem in special cases, the &shy; symbol
can be replaced by the proper "-" character (#AD = hyphen, not the minus sign
#2D), which is recognized by most environments and [as a suggestion of mine to
Rob Craig] should be adopted into the Euphoria as the standard Escape character
\- together with the \n, \t etc., as a further feature of the language.
Note that the RichEdit itself is able to handle it and, if you copy/paste a text
from an [Outlook] hyphenated mail message, you will get these symbols too,
premised that your editor can show or hide them.