Re: Hyphenation Design (Was Re: Possible Pango 1.4 ideas)

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 18:52:15 +0000, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> 
> Normal hyphenation points have chars_to_remove set to 0,
> pre_break_text set to "-", and post_break_text set to "".
> 

I just want to point out that ‘-’ U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS
probably isn't the right character to use as the hyphen. My
*guess* is that ‘‐’ U+2010 HYPHEN is a better choice, for
scripts that don't have their own special hyphens.

Another character to look at is U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN ‘­’
(“SHY”). I'm not sure what this is for.

Someone else can probably state this more definitively.

Noah