"Soft" hyphens

<FatBlokeOnBikepins@pinsmother-truckers.co.uk> wrote in message
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> .
> Is there a way to have "soft" hyphens or "soft" spaces in lines of text,
lines which may
> have to break, depending on the width available? (By "soft" I mean a
space or hyphen
> which disappears when not needed.)
>
> Example:
> Line of text:
> "informative/encouraging/discouraging/travelling/whatever"
>
> when what would be better is:
> "informative/encouraging/discouraging/travelling/
> whatever"

A kind of bandaid approach would be to put a span in there with a space and
width set to 0...

ie:

informative/encouraging/discouraging/<span style='width:0;'>
</span>travelling/whatever

The blank space won't show up (due to width) and it should break on the
blank space still

"Augustus" <Imperial.Palace@Rome.It> wrote:

> <span style='width:0;'>

All correctly behaving browsers will ignore the style sheet.

If you're about to play some tricks, using spaces but trying to make
them look narrow or nonexistent, the word-spacing property (for which
negative values are allowed) might be a better deck of cards.

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"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
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> "Augustus" <Imperial.Palace@Rome.It> wrote:
>
> > <span style='width:0;'>
>
> All correctly behaving browsers will ignore the style sheet.
>
> If you're about to play some tricks, using spaces but trying to make
> them look narrow or nonexistent, the word-spacing property (for which
> negative values are allowed) might be a better deck of cards.
>
> --
> Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
> Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html

If you set the justification to 'justify' instead of the default 'left' then
it should send it to it's own line after it gets too big. Not sure if it
will also scrunch the text to fit into it's container or just wrap
around....i've never had a reason to find out.

"Anonymous Joe" <no@spam.please> wrote:

> "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
> news:Xns93A49191F4973jkorpelacstutfi@193.229.0.31. ..
>> "Augustus" <Imperial.Palace@Rome.It> wrote:
>>
>> > <span style='width:0;'>
>>
>> All correctly behaving browsers will ignore the style sheet.
>>
>> If you're about to play some tricks, using spaces but trying to
>> make them look narrow or nonexistent, the word-spacing property
>> (for which negative values are allowed) might be a better deck of
>> cards.
>>
>> --
>> Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
>> Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html
>
> If you set the justification to 'justify' instead of the default
> 'left' then it should send it to it's own line after it gets too
> big.

You quoted my message comprehensively, including the sig, and failed to
specify which part thereof you comment on. Actually your comments
don't seem to have any connection with my message, and you used the
word "it" four times, all of which raise the question what is
"it" this time. Please keep that style and your forged From field until
your messages will be worth reading and commenting on. More hints:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/dont.html

Regarding 'justify', which you seem to be thoroughly confused with, see
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/justify.html

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Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html

"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
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> "Anonymous Joe" <no@spam.please> wrote:
>
> > "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
> > news:Xns93A49191F4973jkorpelacstutfi@193.229.0.31. ..
> >> "Augustus" <Imperial.Palace@Rome.It> wrote:
> >>
> >> > <span style='width:0;'>
> >>
> >> All correctly behaving browsers will ignore the style sheet.
> >>
> >> If you're about to play some tricks, using spaces but trying to
> >> make them look narrow or nonexistent, the word-spacing property
> >> (for which negative values are allowed) might be a better deck of
> >> cards.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
> >> Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html
> >
> > If you set the justification to 'justify' instead of the default
> > 'left' then it should send it to it's own line after it gets too
> > big.
>
> You quoted my message comprehensively, including the sig, and failed to
> specify which part thereof you comment on. Actually your comments
> don't seem to have any connection with my message, and you used the
> word "it" four times, all of which raise the question what is
> "it" this time. Please keep that style and your forged From field until
> your messages will be worth reading and commenting on. More hints:
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/dont.html
>
> Regarding 'justify', which you seem to be thoroughly confused with, see
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/justify.html
>
> --
> Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
> Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html

I am forever in your debt, for this it will be necessary to allow it to
change it, etc it...

Nah, I get what you mean, but you can be more polite about it, I mean you
pretty much outright flamed me here...