[sword-devel] Hyphenation in the context of narrow displays

[Nic Carter]

Another issue that may need to be addressed in regards to this is that some of our commentaries have fixed line lengths and then have inserted a newline character (<br/>?)...  It would be great to have these removed, but I can't remember any particular modules that have this.  This is especially noticeable on the iPhone, and would be on other small screens...

ps: Thanks, David, for updating the wiki for me a few days ago.  :)

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On 27/10/2010, at 7:25 PM, David Haslam wrote:

> 
> For many mobile devices such as cell phones, the line length of text is often
> limited by the narrow width of the display screen.
> 
> This accentuates the problem of hyphenation for long words.
> 
> i.e. Where to split a word and hyphenate it properly between syllables.
> 
> One of the projects at bfbs linguistic computing addresses the challenge of
> hyphenation.
> 
> See  http://lc.bfbs.org.uk/news.php?item.34.2
> http://lc.bfbs.org.uk/news.php?item.34.2 
> 
> Perhaps at some future occasion, it might be a worthwhile idea to explore
> whether automatic hyphenation might be something that could be incorporated
> into the SWORD API.
> 
> It certainly would do no harm, and it might do much good.
> 
> Others more skilled than I might wish to pursue this suggestion.
> 
> David
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