working on the dlang.org website

Brad Anderson eco at gnuk.net
Mon Jul 22 16:29:37 PDT 2013


On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 22:35:20 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 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

That's exactly what the current state of the pull request is.


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