Re: Strange linebreaking when long hyphenated words appear in table cells

On Fr, Nov 14, 2014, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> The attached  file demonstrates  the problem.  The  test in  the first
> paragraph easily linebreaks to fit the  width of the window because of
> the potential linebreaks after each hyphen.  The same text inside of a
> table cell forces the cell to be  almost as wide as the unbroken text,
> although some line breaking does happen.
> 
> My guess is that Dillo calculates  the minimum width of the table cell
> without accounting for potential linebreaks after hyphens in the text.
> However, when  it later  fills the  cell with the  text it  does allow
> linebreaks  after hyphens.

This is correct. There are several reasons for ignoring hyphenation
(both implicit and explicit, as here) when calculating the minimal
width. First, it would make hyphenation of all words necessary, not
(as now) the ones around feasible line breaks. Furthermore, there are
problems with layout tables (altough becoming more and more extinct);
there has been some discussion on this list, IIRC.

> If that  is  correct then  I think  Dillo
> should  account  for  potential  linebreaks after  hyphens  both  when
> calculating the  minimum width of the  cell

See above.

> and when filling the cell with text.

This is actually done, as you see. The long "aaaaa-aaaaa-..." is
broken, within the width which has been calculated before for the
table cell width.

> The current situation is inconsistent and can deliver very
> poor results.

Changing one of the above (minimal width, or hyphenation within table
cells) will probably do more harm than good, so I'd leave it as it is,
unless there are really severe reasons, as real-world web pages which
are unreadable.

Sebastian

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