Dealing with 2 languages at once (French & English) makes hyphenating even more puzzling. Have you looked at the typesetting features of InDesign and what do you think about them??
Submitted by MACfroggie on Mon, 01/08/2001 - 10:28.
First, it is ironic that an article on hyphenation and typography contains very bad line breaks due to the total lack of hyphenation. Second, anyone calling themselves a typographer should not have auto hyphenation turned on. This article contained some very poor advice.
In response to VF - re-size your browser window, man - it's scaleable, so the author clearly has no control of hyphenation in the article. Duh.
Perhaps I'm not the "true typographer" that VF's claiming to be, but I found much to like in this article. My only quibble is the inadequate discussion of auto-hyphen algorythms, a subject that I find fascinating (so what does that make me?)
Maybe next time, Mr. Berry?
"Long" John Holmes
Submitted by John Holmes on Fri, 09/15/2000 - 09:12.
I did find the historical tidbit interesting. The 2 repsponses, however, comment on the article's hyphenation. There certainly were "widows." I thought that if you just wanted to flow text, there is no way around that in HTML (aside from forcing a set column width and breaking each line by hand - which is not how creativepro.com is set up). If there is another way, I'm eagerly awaiting enlightenment.
InDesign
Dealing with 2 languages at once (French & English) makes hyphenating even more puzzling. Have you looked at the typesetting features of InDesign and what do you think about them??
Typography and automation don't mix.
First, it is ironic that an article on hyphenation and typography contains very bad line breaks due to the total lack of hyphenation. Second, anyone calling themselves a typographer should not have auto hyphenation turned on. This article contained some very poor advice.
Hmmm...
In response to VF - re-size your browser window, man - it's scaleable, so the author clearly has no control of hyphenation in the article. Duh.
Perhaps I'm not the "true typographer" that VF's claiming to be, but I found much to like in this article. My only quibble is the inadequate discussion of auto-hyphen algorythms, a subject that I find fascinating (so what does that make me?)
Maybe next time, Mr. Berry?
"Long" John Holmes
Web Hyphenation?
I did find the historical tidbit interesting. The 2 repsponses, however, comment on the article's hyphenation. There certainly were "widows." I thought that if you just wanted to flow text, there is no way around that in HTML (aside from forcing a set column width and breaking each line by hand - which is not how creativepro.com is set up). If there is another way, I'm eagerly awaiting enlightenment.