working on the dlang.org website

[Brad Anderson]

On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 20:49:09 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:59:57PM +0200, Kagamin wrote:
>> Didn't see hypenation on the web before, looks alien to me. 
>> From the
>> typesetting point of view I find manpages with a larger font
>> pleasure to read.
>> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/fclose.3.html
>> They are neither justified nor hyphenated.
>
> Exactly. While justification/hyphenation are nice to have, they 
> are
> really only peripheral benefits. We should not be paying such a 
> big
> price for them. I really have a hard time understanding the 
> rationale
> behind trying to make hyphenation work, when the time could be 
> much
> better spent improving the D docs that newbies keep complaining 
> about.
>
>
> T

My recent changes to hyphenation were because Andrei vetoed my 
attempt to remove hyphenation so I spent some time trying to make 
it as bearable as possible.  Not much time has gone into it (and 
I'm not a great or qualified technical writer in any case).