Re: [Lynx-dev] <PRE>...&shy;...</PRE>

[David Woolley]

Paul Gilmartin wrote:

> And all 3 browsers collapse the soft hyphen.  I wonder
> whether this correct, or if it should be rendered as a
> single character position, even as multiple horizontal
> and vertical spaces are not collapsed in the range of
> a <PRE>

The main effect of PRE is to preserve white space.  One can override the 
font to a proportional one.

> Does some standard clarify this?  What's the printable
> representation of &shy; in ISO-8859-1, anyway?

A hyphen, or nothing at all.

Soft hyphen isn't white space, so it is handled normally, i.e. it is 
only takes up space at the end of a line (and then only under certain 
other conditions, which are detailed in one of the Unicode appendices).

Using soft hyphens in pre is not a sensible thing to do!



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