Re: Force split of unique long word in a narrow TD

Scripsit pamela fluente:

I have my precise reasons form my question.

Without disclosing those reasons, and illustrating them with a URL, you can hardly expect to find a correct solution (though you might find a solution that pleases you, for the time being).

5 or 10 are just examples.

But hardly by accident. Besides, the point is setting a fixed width, not the specific with, though 5 or 10 pixels were... maybe just particularly bad examples, maybe symptomatic.

Let's assume. if you like, that the minumum width will fit at least
on character of the current font.

We can't assume anything like that. The font size is ultimately under user's control. I just had some conversation with a guy who helps visually impaired people and told me that many of them prefer using a visual browser with huge font size (perhaps so that just a few letters fit on the screen) to using a screen reader.

The point here is: can I split a word in a TD yes or no?

As I wrote, absolutely maybe. You didn't answer my crucial questions.

Usually when there are replies in your style, the reasons can be 2:
- it is not possible: so answer is NO
- who answers does not know how to do it

Babbling like that does not help you. Neither of the assumed reasons is correct, except relative to the vagueness of the question. It is impossible to answer correctly your question when the question is so imprecise, in a manner that I described previously.

I am not caring about hyphenation.

Oh. In another post here, you seem to be interested in ­, which is all about hyphenation.

I am trying to render a design
that someone can have done in an arbitrary way. And I have to
render that design precisely, splitting the words the same way as
they
appear in the design (no care about meaning: these words can be
codes).
I am doing this programmatically.

This is still all too vague. You are sending mixed messages about the nature of the desired splitting. Words or codes? Can a code be split without losing information? Can it be split at any point? And if you want to "render that design precisely", why don't you include just forced line breaks?

I am aware that I am missing some well know resource but I come here
only rarely to ask some doubt.

You're supposed to read the group for a while before posting. You can act otherwise, but then you might end up with lots of unnecessary rounds of discussions, making people exhausted just before they might finally have access to your actual problem and could start answering it.

btw: What "bogosity" means?

It's a derivative of "bogus".

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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