working on the dlang.org website

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Mon Jul 22 15:33:41 PDT 2013


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:48:10PM +0200, Brad Anderson wrote:
> 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.
[...]
> 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).

I think the best approach at this point is to leave CSS hyphenation
alone, and just remove/disable hyphenator.js. Removing *all* hyphenation
seems be a bit too heavy-handed.


T

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