From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GSoC project "Hyphenation"?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:01:22 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obrhczdp.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfwcu6ins.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:40:45 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
> I guess there's a combination of reasons for that:
> - Emacs doesn't support proportional fonts very well.
> - monospaced justified text is rarely used.
> - => justified text is rarely used in Emacs.
> - hyphenation is rarely needed for non-justified text.
>
> E.g. without hyphenation, your email would not have been much
> less pleasantly balanced. There are only 3 paragraphs where your
> hyphenation lets Emacs's filling algorithm give noticeably better
> results, but by tweaking down the fill-column on a case-by-case
> basis (from 60 to 57, for example), you can easily get back
> something reasonably close (aesthetically) to the
> hyphenated version.
One thing that I find I do sort of want in practice, is simply more
intelligent treatment of _explicit_ hyphens, as filling often yields
awkward results when long hyphenated words
("moggle-crested-snurd-radler") occur in a paragraph. It'd be nice if
both filling and display-time word-wrapping would be willing to break
after hyphens, and not insert whitespace after a hyphen when filling.
That would presumably be a lot simpler than full balls-to-the-wall
hyphenation. Hmm, maybe not enough for a full GSoC project tho...
-Miles
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-28 1:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-27 16:01 GSoC project "Hyphenation"? Tim Landscheidt
2012-03-27 17:48 ` Deniz Dogan
2012-03-27 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-27 18:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-28 1:01 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2012-03-28 12:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-23 1:09 ` hector
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