Re: hyphenator-Project &column.sort
- Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Jul 23, 2005
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On 23 Jul 2005, at 1:03, Antonio Alessi wrote: > > > posted by: Antonio Alessi <a.admin at myway.it> > > 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 idea is interesting. I agree many pages need some adjustment like the hyphenation, and i am thinking it was too much trouble to edit and manually add all the ­. But i can write a script to add them on the server automatically with php, or with Euphoria on the home/business computer before upload (the best way). > Your question may be set in two terms then: > > 1. too many ­ make the document heavier on the net > 2. too many ­ 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 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. When i was on dialup, i used remote http shells running php to edit my browsing before sending it to me. Only very basic html tags would not be stripped out of the pages. I am on dsl now, and don't care too much about page sizes. > (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 ­ 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 ­ are > worth. Should you find any Language [but not only] mistake plase, let me know. I think you do not need the human editor/writer to add any dot or ­. Plain text can be made ­ automatically with ooeu (or Euphoria or php or other) script. I see some pages people do not want hyphenated or wordwrapped, and they use for spaces, and they would not want the ­ added. Mirc uses 160 also, to control wordwraps and common space (ascii 32) line breaks. Many ircd now disallow 160 in channel names, nicks, and server commands. > Finally, should this represent a true problem in special cases, the ­ > 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. I agree, the minus sign can confuse automatic readers, especially when someone made a plain text page and used minus signs to hardcode the word wrap, so when made into html page without the <pre></pre> the words might look like " hy - phenation " in the middle of a line, making comprehension difficult and take more time. Did Apple fix the ­ bug in Mac OS ? Kat