Re: breaking hyphen?

JRS: In article <djl7u1$o96$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dated Tue, 25
Oct 2005 15:20:21, seen in news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html,
Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@xxxxxxxxx> posted :
>Alan Wood wrote:
>
>> I don't understand why it is not being fixed. I reported the same
>> problem in Opera and Safari, and it was fixed quite quickly.
>
>I don't think it was an improvement that Opera started dividing "-1"
>into "-" at the end of a line and "1" at the start of the next line.

Indeed. At least for proportionally-spaced text, there should be no
word-break after a hyphen which starts a "word"; perhaps no break which
generates a fragment of fewer than three characters. Instead, the whole
line should be squashed up a bit, or the "word" slipped into the next
line.

Probably you'll think of a few exceptional cases ...

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