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Unfortunately, `hyphens: auto;` is still not supported on Chrome Windows. I still recommend using it, as it brings nicer layout to the ones you can see it (http

by mcbetz 10y ago

Unfortunately, `hyphens: auto;` is still not supported on Chrome Windows. I still recommend using it, as it brings nicer layout to the ones you can see it (http://caniuse.com/#search=hyphens http://caniuse.com/#search=hyphens) and does not break the layout for others. CSS Text 4 drafts might bring massive improvements for text handling and will give more fine grained controls over hyphenation, such as `hyphenate-limit-lines` (https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/#hyphenate-line-limits https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/#hyphenate-line-limits), but obviously this is nothing that will make it to stable browsers in the near future. Still, the changes that might come for CSS with this draft would bring it a lot closer to LaTeX or InDesign.

e12e 10y ago
I find it sad that what has been holding this back for years is "how will we download dictionaries": https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=605840 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=605840 Especially considering LaTeX had this right for decades - and it is one of the major issues for good and pleasant readability... sigh.
- deathanatos 10y ago
  I don't even understand their logic here: > Linux and Windows don't have built-in dictionaries. Every Linux distribution I've ever been on has had a dictionary. I'm not sure what package it's in, but the point is that packages exist, and can be depended on (or, although I dislike this, vendored in). (Is it perhaps that they need a dictionary with the syllabic breakdown of the word? IDK if the normal dictionaries will give you that, or if it can be computed or heuristically determined?) (Edit: e.g., on Ubuntu, the "text" category includes a number of dictionaries in various languages … http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/text/ http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/text/ )
  - lotsofcows 10y ago
    Normally /usr/share/dict/words Def on my Mac and CentOS boxes. Package is words.noarch for the latter.

by mcbetz 10y ago

e12e 10y ago

I find it sad that what has been holding this back for years is "how will we download dictionaries": https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=605840 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=605840 Especially considering LaTeX had this right for decades - and it is one of the major issues for good and pleasant readability... sigh.

deathanatos 10y ago
I don't even understand their logic here: > Linux and Windows don't have built-in dictionaries. Every Linux distribution I've ever been on has had a dictionary. I'm not sure what package it's in, but the point is that packages exist, and can be depended on (or, although I dislike this, vendored in). (Is it perhaps that they need a dictionary with the syllabic breakdown of the word? IDK if the normal dictionaries will give you that, or if it can be computed or heuristically determined?) (Edit: e.g., on Ubuntu, the "text" category includes a number of dictionaries in various languages … http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/text/ http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/text/ )
- lotsofcows 10y ago
  Normally /usr/share/dict/words Def on my Mac and CentOS boxes. Package is words.noarch for the latter.