[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
- From: Liam Quin <liamquin@interlog.com>
- To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@allette.com.au>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 00:30:10 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> > From: Liam Quin <liamquin@interlog.com>
>> I don't have a copy of 8859 any more to check, but if the hyphen chracter
>> is to be treated as a soft hyphen, there's no way to type a hard hyphen...
>
> Yes. But why is this a surprise? A "hard hyphen" is a dash (copying whatever
> kind of dash has heen used by the application) followed by a hard return.
So I can't type "Forbes-Hamilton" with a hyphen? (I have used a minus sign
here because I'm using 7-bit ASCII software right now!)
At any rate, unless hyphenation behaviour becomes part of XML-LANG, I don't
see that this discussion is relevant, although by all means mail me
privately if you want to prolong it :-)
Lee
--
Liam Quin -- the barefoot typographer -- Toronto
lq-text: freely available Unix text retrieval
email address: liamquin, at host: interlog dot com
xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
unsubscribe xml-dev
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
|
