[issue41988] No hyphen in broken up word in documentation

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

I am closing because word breakage when wrapping and justifying is an OS-browswer issue.  I see the image as having two hyphenation bugs, but whoever wrote that viewer might disagree.

The displayed paragraph is the first bullet point in the doc.  With Firefox on Windows 10, the default wrapping (narrower than my full screen width) is after 'paramont' and 'learn at'.

  Decimal “is based on a floating-point model which was designed with people in mind, and necessarily has a paramount
  guiding principle – computers must provide an arithmetic that works in the same way as the arithmetic that people learn at
  school.” – excerpt from the decimal arithmetic specification.

If I enlarge the text with Cntl-Mousewheel, even up to to the max 300%, Firefox rewraps but never breaks words; it only justifies with spaces.

With MS Edge and Google Chrome, the default breaks are after 'has a' and 'as the' and the max enlargements are 400/500%, but the behavior is otherwise the same -- rewrapping and justification with spaces, no word breaks.

  Decimal “is based on a floating-point model which was designed with people in mind, and necessarily has a
  paramount guiding principle – computers must provide an arithmetic that works in the same way as the
  arithmetic that people learn at school.” – excerpt from the decimal arithmetic specification.

Safari on my Macbook Mohave, does break words, and has nec-essarily, arith-metic, and ap-plication (later in the text), which are correct.

In the image, rewrapping is done by breaking words according to some local algorithm.  Short pieces as in ne-cessarily and ap-plications are hyphenated but the 'big' pieces of arith metic are not.  This looks like a browser bug, but might be a local standard.  According to both Google and my paper dictionary, the first hyphenation should be nec-essarily, as in Safari, which is an exception to the general rule of 'before a single consonant', as in spe-ci-fi-ca-tion.  But maybe some group disagrees with this exception.

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nosy: +mdk, terry.reedy
resolution:  -> third party
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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