Typography
Tuesday, August 20, 2002[12:59:06 PM]
As an exercise, I wrote a script to insert soft hyphens (­) into html files. Only IE on Windows makes use of soft hyphens, while some browsers will display gibberish characters.
Still, if you actually want people to read your articles online -- and you want to justify text -- this points to the wave of the future.
Examples:
justified with 500 pixel column
justified, fits to browser window
unjustified, fits to browser window
If you have Windows, you could compare them in IE and Netscape or Mozilla.
(I should say that I didn't stomp out one of the bugs in my script, so it added soft hyphens before and after a few words. The hyphenation dictionary came from the Moby project.)
© Copyright 2002 john robert boynton.
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