Re: Whitespace rules (v2)
Liam Quin (liamquin@interlog.com)
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
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